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This chapter is about how transhumant Yörük goat herding is being squeezed between expanding private farmlands, national forests, and mining concessions. State bodies—forest agencies among them—cast goats as rivals to timber revenue, branding them “forest destroyers,” yet the animals’ overlooked multifunctionality (fuel-break grazing, seed dispersal, soil building) can in fact strengthen fire safety and ecosystem health. Building on that tension, the chapter compares four land-tenure models—private, public, commons, and open access—and argues for a multispecies commons in which goats and herders serve as co-stewards rather than owners, offering a practical alternative to both enclosure and extractivist expansion.

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Common Harm or Public Good: Goats, Forests, and the Politics of Ownership

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    2025年

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  • Sezai Ozan Zeybek

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This chapter is about how transhumant Yörük goat herding is being squeezed between expanding private farmlands, national forests, and mining concessions. State bodies—forest agencies among them—cast goats as rivals to timber revenue, branding them “forest destroyers,” yet the animals’ overlooked multifunctionality (fuel-break grazing, seed dispersal, soil building) can in fact strengthen fire safety and ecosystem health. Building on that tension, the chapter compares four land-tenure models—private, public, commons, and open access—and argues for a multispecies commons in which goats and herders serve as co-stewards rather than owners, offering a practical alternative to both enclosure and extractivist expansion.