Dr Tone Walford (they/them) and Dr Emilie Glazer (she/her)
Drawing on ethnographic(-ish) work done with members of the public who live around Hampstead Heath in London, in this paper we present a story in three parts, but to be read/seen as a single whole. The work was part of a larger project which asked what an anthropological approach to environmental data justice might be. In the first story, we explore ethnographically(-ish) how members of the Ancient Tree Forum in the UK relate to and make sense of the Heath as place imbued with affect, memory and sociality. We then use these situated and experiential understandings of the Heath, to re-think what environmental data justice might be along 2 axes which structure most current approaches to data justice: openness and storage. We then bring this comparison to bear on anthropological data, enquiring into the often invisible politics and ethics of ethnographic data practices themselves. Throughout, we explore the form of the triptych as a means to show or conceal the complexity of the analytical and empirical material.