The nature of protest: constructing the spaces of British Columbia’s rainforests

• Published in: cultural geographies
• Main Author: Rossiter, David
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2004
• Subjects: Environmental Science (miscellaneous); Cultural Studies; Geography, Planning and Development; British Columbia; Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/14744744004eu298oa; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1191/14744744004eu298oa

This paper examines the representations of nature circulating in a Greenpeace anti-logging campaign in British Columbia, Canada. The effort to stop industrial logging in a region of the central coast named ‘the Great Bear Rainforest’ is presented as a case study through which nature’s social product...