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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braun, Bruce, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Effect of human beings on--British Columbia.

Nature.

Human ecology--British Columbia.

Human ecology.

Rain forests--British Columbia.

Rain forests.

Rain forest conservation--British Columbia.

Rain forest conservation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bruce Braun examines social, discursive, and political practices through which Canada's 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, The Intemperate Rainforest traces the way West Coast landscapes have been viewed and controlled by explorers, foresters, environmentalists, artists, scientists, adventure travelers, and Native peoples.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 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; Conclusion: Reimagining the Rainforest; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-332) and index.

ISBN:

9780816690541

0816690545

9780816652716

0816652716

OCLC:

476095123