The intemperate rainforest : nature, culture, and power on Canada's west coast /

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Bruce Braun examines social, discursive, and political practices through which Canadas West Coast forests have been given meaning and made the site of intense political and ideological struggle. Departing from other work on environmental politics that assumes the "forest" is a constant, Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Braun, Bruce, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Nature > Effect of human beings on > British Columbia.
Human ecology > British Columbia.
Rain forests > British Columbia.
Rain forest conservation > British Columbia.
Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature > Colombie-Britannique.
Écologie humaine > Colombie-Britannique.
Forêts pluviales > Colombie-Britannique.
Forêts pluviales > Conservation > Colombie-Britannique.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Human ecology
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Rain forest conservation
Rain forests
British Columbia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Intemperate Rainforest 2. Producing Marginality: Abstraction and Displacement in the Temperate Rainforest 3. "Saving Clayoquot": Wilderness and the Politics of Indigeneity 4. Landscapes of Loss and Mourning: Adventure Travel and the Reterritorialization of Nature and Culture 5. BC Seeing/Seeing BC: Vision and Visuality on Canada's West Coast 6. Picturing the Forest Crisis: Immutable Mobiles, Contested Ecologies, and the Politics of Preservation.

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