Making a difference: Forest biodiversity, affective capacities, and the micro-politics of expert fieldwork

摘要: Abstract Protecting biodiversity requires the practice of making nature values present in natural resource use decisions. In this article, such practices are explored from perspective affective capacities for expert fieldwork forestry. Affective broadly acknowledged literature on embodied knowing, and by practitioners themselves, as a necessary condition knowing nature. We will extend discussion to politics involved. Drawing case study Finland, article points out that professional foresters’ ways controlled institutionalised strategies practices. Thus, power is exercised through fieldwork, determining how can should be known The concludes since policy implementation takes place intensities mundane routines, governance studies would benefit understanding various technologies interact with emergent capacities.