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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819563503321

Titolo

A political space : reading the global through Clayoquot Sound / / editors, Warren Magnusson, Karena Shaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

0-8166-9418-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Globalization and community ; ; v. 11

Altri autori (Persone)

MagnussonWarren <1947->

ShawKarena

Disciplina

320.9711/2

Soggetti

Politics, Practical

Environmental policy - British Columbia - Clayoquot Sound Region

Environmental policy

Clayoquot Sound (B.C.) Politics and government

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction--the puzzle of the political / Warren Magnusson -- Mapping Clayoquot Sound : encountering Clayoquot, reading the political / Karena Shaw -- There must be some way out of here : strategy, ethics, and environmental politics / William Chaloupka -- On the political economy of Clayoquot Sound : the uneasy transition from extractive to attractive models of development / Timothy W. Luke -- Commentary--on the universal and the particular: sovereignty and the urban global / Warren Magnusson -- Somewhere between center and territory : exploring a nodal site in the struggle against vertical authority and horizontal flows / R. Michael M'Gonigle -- Between the local and the global : Clayoquot Sound and simulacral politics / Catriona Sandilands -- Commentary--Clayoquot and the cultures of nature / Sharon Zukin -- The environment of sovereignty / Thom Kuehls -- Commentary--discourses in and about Clayoquot Sound : a first nations perspective / Umeek of Ahousaht (E. Richard Atleo) -- Clearcut identities : tracking shapeshifters in Clayoquot Sound / Gary C. Shaw -- They seek it here, they seek it there : locating the political in Clayoquot Sound / R.B.J. Walker -- Conclusion--Clayoquot and the



politics beyond / Warren Magnusson and Karena Shaw.

Sommario/riassunto

The authors develop a new way of making sense of the rapidly changing character of political life in our day, revealing the political problems and possibilities inherent in the convergence of the global and the local so dramatically enacted in Clayoquot Sound.