Title: Anatomy of a conflict : identity, knowledge, and emotion in old-growth forests /
Authors: Satterfield, Terre, 1960-
Publisher: UBC Press ; Michigan State University Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Old growth forest ecology Oregon.; Old growth forest conservation Oregon.; Old growth forests Oregon.; Logging Oregon.; Environmentalists Oregon Attitudes.; Loggers Oregon Attitudes.
Abstract: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction: a cultural dialogue about old-growth forests -- The cycle of history: public lands, forest health, and activist histories in the American West -- Disturbances in the field and the defining of social movements -- Negotiating agency and the quest for grassroots legitimacy -- Voodoo science and common sense -- Theorizing culture: defining the past and imagining the possible -- Irrational actors: emotions, ethics, and the ecocentred self -- A concluding discussion: the traingular shape of cultural production