This is a must read for everyone interested in how environmental policy gets made. In this highly readable text, the editors have gathered a range of authors that approach environmental politics from several interesting directions. Some of the chapters are highly personal accounts, while others are more abstract and theoretical discussions of what makes up the politics of the environment. You will be impressed to discover how much actual and intellectual territory this covers, and how particular views of history shape a sense of where politics actually occurs. Additionally, the editors have made a conscious effort to provide weblinks to the original documents that tell the story of the high-profile struggle over this "old-growth" forest controversy. This lets you get behind the analysis and descriptions to actually see how social science research is conducted. Overall, and excellent introduction to environmental politics as both an academic and activist pursuit.
Author(s): Warren Magnusson, Karena Shaw
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 321
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: The Puzzle of the Political......Page 16
Mapping Clayoquot Sound......Page 36
Encountering Clayoquot, Reading the Political......Page 40
There Must Be Some Way Out of Here: Strategy, Ethics, and Environmental Politics......Page 82
On the Political Economy of Clayoquot Sound: The Uneasy Transition from Extractive to Attractive Models of Development......Page 106
Commentary: On the Universal and the Particular: Sovereignty and the Urban Global......Page 128
Somewhere between Center and Territory: Exploring a Nodal Site in the Struggle against Vertical Authority and Horizontal Flows......Page 136
Between the Local and the Global: Clayoquot Sound and Simulacral Politics......Page 154
Commentary: Clayoquot and the Cultures of Nature......Page 184
The Environment of Sovereignty......Page 194
Commentary. Discourses in and about Clayoquot Sound: A First Nations Perspective......Page 214
Clearcut Identities: Tracking Shape-shifters in Clayoquot Sound......Page 224
They Seek It Here, They Seek It There: Locating the Political in Clayoquot Sound......Page 252
Conclusion: Clayoquot and the Politics Beyond......Page 278
Research Guide: The Clayoquot Documents and the Clayoquot Project Web Site......Page 302
Contributors......Page 310
C......Page 314
E......Page 315
H......Page 316
M......Page 317
P......Page 318
S......Page 319
W......Page 320
Z......Page 321
