Negotiating Nature

Colonial Geographies and Environmental Politics in the Pacific Northwest

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ID12596306
AutoresDavid A Rossiter (Western Washington University, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume11
Fascículo2
Páginas113-128
Data de publicação2008-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthics Place & Environment (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1366-879X • E-ISSN: 1469-6703
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13668790802252439
OpenAlexW2056367287
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas19

Noting tension between environmental and aboriginal politics in the Pacific Northwest of North America, this paper explores the historical–geographic constitution of both the Great Bear Rainforest conflict in British Columbia and the Makah whaling conflict in Washington State. By highlighting the uneven production of territoriality between each jurisdiction and tracing these differences though the historical–geographic imaginations of environmental activists and writers of letters to editors of metropolitan newspapers, the paper argues that situated geographies of colonialism inform interactions between environmental and aboriginal politics at their core, thereby demonstrating the centrality of the production of space to the constitution of politics. Acknowledgements The research for this paper was supported by both a Faculty Research Grant from the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC and a Summer Research Grant from Research and Sponsored Programs at Western Washington University. Valuable research assistance was provided by Cari McMullin and Brett Matulis. Portions of the argument were presented in San Francisco in the spring of 2007 at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers and in Toronto in the fall of 2007 at the Biennial Meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. The final article has been strengthened by the constructive comments received at each. In the end, of course, responsibility for any errors or omissions rests with the author. Notes Notes 1 The region encompasses the Canadian province of British Columbia and Washington and Oregon of the United States; northern California and Alaska are commonly identified with the region, as well. 2 British Columbia joined the Canadian federation in 1871

Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Geography · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Geology · Oceanography