Anatomy of a Conflict: Identity, Knowledge and Emotion in Old-Growth Forests - Softcover

Satterfield, Terre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870136550 ISBN 13: 9780870136559

Publisher: Michigan State University Press, 2003

Synopsis

This work explores the cultural aspects of the fierce dispute between activist loggers and environmentalists over the fate of Oregon's temperate rain forest. The conflict has lead to the burning down of ranger stations, the spiking of trees, logging truck blockades, and demonstrations.

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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)

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)

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870136550
• ISBN 13: 9780870136559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224