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About the Book
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 lead to the burning down of ranger stations, the spiking of trees, logging truck blockades, and countless demonstrations and arrests.
Satterfield shows how the debate about the forest is, at its core, a debate about the cultural make-up of the Pacific Northwest. To talk about forests is to talk about culture, whether the discussion is about scientific explanations of conifer forests, activists’ grassroots status and their emotional attachment to land, or the implications of past people’s land use for future forest management. An engaging ethnographic study, this book emphasizes the historical roots and contemporary emergence of identity movements as a means for challenging cultural patterns. It makes a significant contribution to culture- and identity-driven theories of human action in the context of social movements and environmental studies.
About the Author(s)
Terre Satterfield is a research scientist with Decision Research in Eugene, Oregon, and Assistant Professor of Culture, Risk, and the Environment at the University of British Columbia's Sustainable Development Research Institute, and at the Institute for Resources and the Environment.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Names and Methods
Illustrations
1. Introduction: A Cultural Dialogue about Old-Growth Forests
2. The Cycle of History: Public Lands, Forest Health, and Activist Histories in the American West
3. Disturbances in the Field and the Defining of Social Movements
4. Negotiating Agency in the Quest for Grassroots Legitimacy
5. Voodoo Science and Common Sense
6. Theorizing Culture: Defining the Past and Imagining the Possible
7. Irrational Actors: Emotions, Ethics, and the Ecocentred Self
8. Concluding Discussion: The Triangular Shape of Cultural Production
Notes
References
Index
Reviews
"This is an excellent work, and is essential reading for those engaged in the sociology of natural resources (a term contested by some), and perhaps for environmental sociologists more broadly. As someone who has a cross-appointment in a Faculty of Forestry, I think this should be required reading for students of forestry. However, I think it should also have broader appeal beyond the academy, to those citizens who are interested in the conflict over old-growth forests."
-- David Tindall, Canadian Journal of Sociology, October 2003 [ read the review ]
"An excellent piece of ethnographic analysis of value not only to scholars interested in environmental issues but to those working in the wider field of human ecology and in related areas of identity, political process, emotion, science, and the general construction of cultural conventions."
-- Kay Milton, Reader in Social Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast, author of Environmentalism and Cultural Theory: Exploring the Role of Anthropology in Environmental Discourse and Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of Emotion
"This book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of environmental controversies. While economic and political dimensions of forest controversies have been closely studied, the anthropological perspective provided by this book is novel, and important."
-- Stephen Bocking, Professor of Environmental Studies at Trent University, author of Ecologists and Environmental Politics: A History of Contemporary Ecology
Sample Chapter
Introduction
Chapter 2
Related Topics
Forestry
Environmental Studies
Anthropology
Cultural Studies
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