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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451704803321

Autore

Braun Bruce <1964->

Titolo

The intemperate rainforest [[electronic resource] ] : nature, culture, and power on Canada's west coast / / Bruce Braun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8166-9054-5

0-8166-5271-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Disciplina

333.75/09711

Soggetti

Nature - Effect of human beings on - British Columbia

Human ecology - British Columbia

Rain forests - British Columbia

Rain forest conservation - British Columbia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.