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Anatomy of a conflict : identity, knowledge, and emotion in old-growth forests

"Anatomy of a Conflict explores the cultural aspects of the fierce dispute between activist loggers and environmentalists over the fate of Oregon's temperate rain forest. Centred on the practice of old-growth logging and the survival of the northern spotted owl, the conflict has led to the burning down of ranger stations, the spiking of trees, blockades of logging trucks, and countless demonstrations and arrests."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2003
UBC Press ; Michigan State University Press, Vancouver, East Lansing, Mich., 2003
x, 198 pages ; 23 cm
9780774808927, 9780774808934, 9780870136559, 0774808926, 0774808934, 0870136550
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AcknowledgmentsNotes on Names and MethodsIllustrations1 Introduction: A Cultural Dialogue about Old-Growth Forests2 The Cycle of History: Public Lands, Forest Health, and Activist Histories in the American West3 Disturbances in the Field and the Defining of Social Movements4 Negotiating Agency in the Quest for Grassroots Legitimacy5 Voodoo Science and Common Sense6 Theorizing Culture: Defining the Past and Imagining the Possible7 Irrational Actors: Emotions, Ethics, and the Ecocentred Self8 Concluding Discussion: The Triangular Shape of Cultural ProductionNotesReferencesIndex