Building on a feminist multispecies perspective, this article examines the interwoven relationships between forest ecosystems and the lives of rural women living along the Aegean coast of Turkey. Ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Aegean region’s forest settlements between 2018 and 2022 forms the basis of this study. I focus on three ways women highlight their entanglements with forests into weaving conjoined webs of life: First, rural women’s recollections of the forest and their understanding of the forest’s ecosystem are firmly rooted in the ways they have grown up, providing a cultural context for women’s subsequent forest advocacy. Second, rural women have a profound understanding of the edible plants that grow in the forests. Third, because they regularly forage with other women, rural women form deep relationships with other women and with the forests themselves. I show how these three factors—childhood memories, expertise in foraging and forest management, and deep ties of sociality—provide the impetus for rural women to protest deforestation. Such protests are driven by a collective concern for their own well-being, the good of their communities, and for forests.

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妇女与森林的团结：来自土耳其爱琴海森林的多物种陪伴案例

本文以女权主义多物种视角为基础，探讨了森林生态系统与土耳其爱琴海沿岸农村妇女生活之间的交织关系。2018 年至 2022 年间在爱琴海地区森林定居点进行的民族志实地考察构成了本研究的基础。我重点关注女性通过三种方式突出她们与森林的纠葛，编织出连体的生命之网：第一，农村女性对森林的记忆和对森林生态系统的理解深深植根于她们的成长过程中，为女性的成长提供了文化背景。随后的森林宣传。其次，农村妇女对森林中的食用植物有着深刻的了解。第三，由于农村妇女经常与其他妇女一起采食，她们与其他妇女以及森林本身建立了深厚的关系。我展示了这三个因素——童年记忆、觅食和森林管理方面的专业知识以及深厚的社会联系——如何为农村妇女抗议森林砍伐提供动力。此类抗议活动是出于对自身福祉、社区利益和森林的集体担忧。