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ABSTRACT. Management of biosecurity threats to forests and indigenous trees needs to address the legacy of colonising practices that have prohibited diverse knowledges from being included. This work is urgent and challenging in the context of mobile tree pathogens, investment in climate mitigation through tree planting and greater legal recognition of Indigenous rights and those of trees. While a transition towards shared, collective responsibility for trees and treescapes is compelling, its conceptualisation in practice remains underdeveloped. This is particularly the case when considering tree-biosecurity relations. This paper shows the positioning work a team of social scientists undertook to enable polyvocal imagining of biosecurity possibilities, which trees so urgently need. Situated in Aotearoa|New Zealand and Cymru|Wales, this team of social scientists engaged with colonising forces (of which social science is also a part) to position research for biosecurity and with trees. Presented here are their reflections informed by literature and document reviews as well as research team discussions. Released somewhat from the constraints of displaced ways of knowing human dimensions of trees by means of connecting with Indigenous (especially Māori) scholarship, the research project became more capable of connecting other relations too, between people and nature, knowledge and action, science and society, research and management. The relational approach developed widens the potential for tree-human relations and supports the creation of biosecurity knowledge, systems and practices, not through one but multiple worldviews.

Keywords: relationality; values; trees; biosecurity; biodiversity; ethics; social; research; pathogens; positionality

How to cite: Greenaway, A., MacBride-Stewart, S., Grant, A., Finlay-Smits, S., Ayala, M., Allen, W., O’Brien, L., and Martin, M. (2023). Positioning Research to Improve Tree-Biosecurity Relations. Knowledge Cultures, 11(1), 234–259. https://doi.org/10.22381/kc111202312

Received 1 November 2022 • Received in revised form 2 February 2023
Accepted 12 February 2022 • Available online 1 April 2022

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Alison Greenaway
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Manaaki Whenua|Landcare Research
Aotearoa|New Zealand
Sara MacBride-Stewart
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Prifysgol Caerdydd|Cardiff University
Cymru|Wales
Andrea Grant
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SCION Research
Aotearoa|New Zealand
Susanna Finlay-Smits
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AgResearch
Aotearoa|New Zealand
Maria Ayala
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University of Canterbury,
Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
Aotearoa|New Zealand
Will Allen
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Learning for Sustainability
Aotearoa|New Zealand
Liz O’Brien
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Forest Research
United Kingdom
Michael Martin
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School of Environment,
Waipapa Taumata Rau|University of Auckland
Aotearoa|New Zealand

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