A A Political Space

Reading The Global Through Clayoquot Sound

Warren Magnusson, Karena Shaw

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Year: 2002
• eBook ISBN: 9780816694181
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Process
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Puzzle of the Political
• Mapping Clayoquot Sound
• Encountering Clayoquot, Reading the Political
• There Must Be Some Way Out of Here: Strategy, Ethics, and Environmental Politics
• On the Political Economy of Clayoquot Sound: The Uneasy Transition from Extractive to Attractive Models of Development
• Commentary: On the Universal and the Particular: Sovereignty and the Urban Global
• Somewhere between Center and Territory: Exploring a Nodal Site in the Struggle against Vertical Authority and Horizontal Flows
• Between the Local and the Global: Clayoquot Sound and Simulacral Politics
• Commentary: Clayoquot and the Cultures of Nature
• The Environment of Sovereignty
• Commentary. Discourses in and about Clayoquot Sound: A First Nations Perspective
• Clearcut Identities: Tracking Shape-shifters in Clayoquot Sound
• They Seek It Here, They Seek It There: Locating the Political in Clayoquot Sound
• Conclusion: Clayoquot and the Politics Beyond
• Research Guide: The Clayoquot Documents and the Clayoquot Project Web Site
• Contributors
• Index