A a Political Space
Reading the Global Through Clayoquot Sound
Will be published approx. on 5. December 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-8166-4040-9 (ISBN)
Description
An innovative look at the convergence of global trends and local struggles in this out-of-the-way place.
On the remote outer coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Clayoquot Sound might seem to be situated at the periphery of contemporary power and authority. And yet, as the disputed land of native peoples and the contentious site of corporate logging in one of the world's last remaining temperate rain forests, Clayoquot Sound is also squarely in the middle of global politics today. These 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.
Contributors: Umeek of Ahousaht (E. Richard Atleo), Malaspina U College, British Columbia; William Chaloupka, U of Montana; Thom Kuehls, Weber State U; Timothy W. Luke, Virginia Polytechnic; R. Michael M'Gonigle, U of Victoria; Catriona Sandilands, York U, Toronto; Gary C. Shaw, California State U, Stanislaus; R. B. J. Walker, Keele U, UK; Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and CUNY.
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On the remote outer coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Clayoquot Sound might seem to be situated at the periphery of contemporary power and authority. And yet, as the disputed land of native peoples and the contentious site of corporate logging in one of the world's last remaining temperate rain forests, Clayoquot Sound is also squarely in the middle of global politics today. These 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.
Contributors: Umeek of Ahousaht (E. Richard Atleo), Malaspina U College, British Columbia; William Chaloupka, U of Montana; Thom Kuehls, Weber State U; Timothy W. Luke, Virginia Polytechnic; R. Michael M'Gonigle, U of Victoria; Catriona Sandilands, York U, Toronto; Gary C. Shaw, California State U, Stanislaus; R. B. J. Walker, Keele U, UK; Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and CUNY.
rights: CAN
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-4040-9 (9780816640409)
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Persons
Warren Magnusson is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Karena Shaw is a teaching fellow in the School of Politics, International Relations, and the Environment at Keele University in Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
Content
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.