{"id":53385,"date":"2025-01-28T14:24:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anthropology\/wasteland-commons-and-three-frames-of-ecological-nihilism-engagement\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:24:50","slug":"wasteland-commons-and-three-frames-of-ecological-nihilism-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=53385","title":{"rendered":"Wasteland Commons and Three Frames of Ecological Nihilism \u2013 Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first_letter=\"B\">\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mcspolicycenter.umaine.edu\/people\/dominic-piacentini\/\">Dominic Piacentini<\/a><strong>, The University of Maine \u00a7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society\u2019s 2023\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/roy-a-rappaport-prize-competition\/\">Roy A. Rappaport Prize\u00a0Finalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABSTRACT:<\/strong> The Anthropocene poses new challenges to those who engage in subsistence activities. In Appalachia, as vast acres of land are either seized for the extraction of natural resources or set aside for the protection of them, many continue \u2018the old ways\u2019 in whatever land they can safely access. This paper asks how and why folks continue to gather wild-growing foods despite spatial lockdown. This paper addresses calls to observe practices of commoning in the global north and attends to the ways gatherers turn the challenges of the Anthropocene into creative opportunities for collective living. Although much of the land in Appalachia is held by absentee corporations, the mountains have long functioned as an open-access, de facto commons. Literature on Appalachian commons often focuses on native forest plants and the threats extractive industry poses to them. I propose engagement with \u201cwasteland commons\u201d to understand how similar commoning practices persist beyond these idealized environments and into the contaminated spaces of modernity. To further the concept of wasteland commons, I draw upon gatherers\u2019 experiences with three tropes of ecological nihilism that often dominate discourse on both the Anthropocene and Appalachia: invasion, toxification, and ruination. Invasion involves the spread of invasive species, toxification involves the gradual accumulation of harmful toxins, and ruination involves the blasting of landscapes. These three tropes can render entire environments unrecognizable, but the dangers of ecological nihilism are that we condemn these spaces to abandonment and further destruction. Through commoning the wastelands, we generate paths through them.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4702\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/2024\/06\/23\/wasteland-commons-and-three-frames-of-ecological-nihilism\/figure-1-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-1.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"3024,4032\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"figure-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-1.jpeg?w=225\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-1.jpeg?w=768\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-1.jpeg?w=768\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4702\" style=\"width:501px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-1.jpeg?w=768 768w, https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-1.jpeg?w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-1.jpeg?w=113 113w, https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-1.jpeg?w=225 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><strong>Figure 1.<\/strong> Roadside multiflora rose, in bloom, climbing up a pawpaw tree. Photo by the Author, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>As environmental anthropology has turned its attention from the commons to commoning (or the commons in action), old debates about property, production, and landownership have been reinvigorated. Imbued with indigenous-led critiques of state power, settler colonialism, and private property, stories of the commons have taken on new character and new characters. Frequently, these conversations now circulate around multispecies partners in the making and breaking of property.<\/p>\n<p>As an example, across the rural United States, plants like multiflora rose were first deployed by federal agencies to serve as \u201cliving fences,\u201d imagined partners in 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century enclosure. But these plants quickly expanded beyond the role of fence, proliferating to the point that they are now observed to be \u201cinvasive species\u201d by the same organizations that introduced them. Multiflora rose, as it turns out, is not the willing environmental subject it was expected to be. Once a tool of property making, multiflora rose has become a problem for property as it encroaches upon agricultural fields and meadowlands.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>I grew up in those woods. Now, who did those woods belong to? I have no idea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><cite>Marion Harless<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>My interests as a researcher have revolved around overlapping and inconsistent preoccupations with private property as both a mode of law and a unique cultural practice. In the global north, where settler colonial logics have become <em>de jure<\/em>, private property values are assumed to be \u201ccommon sense.\u201d And yet, they are far from absolute. I have primarily conducted research in central Appalachia \u2014 a largely forested, mountainous cultural region of the eastern United States whose image has historically been limited to fossil fuel extraction and patterns of economic underdevelopment. What makes studying property relations here so interesting, though, are the overlapping and co-occuring <em>de facto<\/em>, open-access commons.<\/p>\n<p>Appalachian commons have been observed to be roughly congruent with two overlapping spatial geographies: (1) vast regions of corporately owned land, prized for potential value in minerals, timber, or real estate, and (2) biodiverse, mixed-elevation forests that are infilled with an array of wild-growing forest foods and medicine. Economically valuable plants like ginseng and ramps receive a lot of the attention in this space, but there are also pawpaws, mayapples, chanterelles, and myriad more. These assemblages of multispecies plants and mushrooms lure their gatherers across property lines, into fields and forests they do not own.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2022, as Marion Harless (an expert in all things green and growing) and I discussed the looming abundance of serviceberries, she reflected on her childhood: <em>\u201cWhen my dad wanted to get rid of us,\u201d<\/em> she says, <em>\u201che\u2019d tell us to go gather serviceberries in the woods. Now, those were the commons. I had no idea who owned those hills.\u201d<\/em> Growing up in the woods, Marion was never certain who owned the land around them, but that never stopped her from escaping into the hills with her siblings.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPeople would just use the woods,\u201d<\/em> she says, <em>\u201cI grew up in those woods. Now, who did those woods belong to? I have no idea. We had ten acres, which is a lot in West Virginia. But we were in the woods all the time. We picked blackberries to sell, my brother and sister and I, in somebody else\u2019s field up on top. There weren\u2019t any houses. There weren\u2019t any people. It was just the woods. The woods.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The woods that Marion recalled from her childhood are emblematic of the <em>de facto<\/em>, open-access nature of Appalachian commons: the common places up on top, where people could gather and picnic together. In Marion\u2019s case, blackberries and serviceberries drew her and her siblings there, beyond their ten acres, and through stories of gathering there she conjures a narrative geography of kinship in the commons. <\/p>\n<p>In the paper, I present a case to observe similar patterns of commoning not only in Appalachia\u2019s idealized mountain forests \u2014 the kind Marion recalls from her childhood \u2014 but also in the ordinary, cruddy spaces of modernity \u2014 on the sides of roads, in fallow fields, and in development sites, places where multiflora rose blooms abundant. I do this to demystify commoning, focusing on seemingly ordinary behavior in seemingly ordinary places. Oftentimes, these environments display emblematic characteristics of the Anthropocene \u2014 invasive species, toxic runoff, and abandoned infrastructure. On their surface, these spaces may appear empty, or at least empty of anything good. But to those gathering there, that is far from the case.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4706\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/2024\/06\/23\/wasteland-commons-and-three-frames-of-ecological-nihilism\/figure-2-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5s&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1564000523&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"figure-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-2.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-2.jpg?w=940\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-2.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-2.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-2.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-2.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/aesengagement.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/figure-2.jpg?w=768 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><strong>Figure 2<\/strong>. A cattle gate with a private property sign posted to it. Beyond the gate, a site where pokeberry plants grow and are gathered. Photo by the Author, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In my research, gatherers have taken me into Appalachia\u2019s highland forests to cut ramps and hunt hedgehog mushrooms. They have shown me how to make salves and lotions from native, understory trees like witch hazel. But gatherers have also taken me to pick pokeberry leaves beside abandoned airplane hangars, pick elderberries in rail yards, and make tinctures of roadside invasives. While these places may appear less desirable, they are not empty. They are important sites where gatherers and the plants they follow challenge the primacy of private property.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Dominic Piacentini, The University of Maine \u00a7 Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society\u2019s 2023\u00a0Roy A. Rappaport Prize\u00a0Finalists. ABSTRACT: The Anthropocene poses new challenges to those who engage in subsistence activities. 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