Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction--the puzzle of the political / Warren Magnusson -- Mapping Clayoquot Sound : encountering Clayoquot, reading the political / Karena Shaw -- There must be some way out of here : strategy, ethics, and environmental politics / William Chaloupka -- On the political economy of Clayoquot Sound : the uneasy transition from extractive to attractive models of development / Timothy W. Luke -- Commentary--on the universal and the particular: sovereignty and the urban global / Warren Magnusson -- Somewhere between center and territory : exploring a nodal site in the struggle against vertical authority and horizontal flows / R. Michael M'Gonigle -- Between the local and the global : Clayoquot Sound and simulacral politics / Catriona Sandilands -- Commentary--Clayoquot and the cultures of nature / Sharon Zukin -- The environment of sovereignty / Thom Kuehls -- Commentary--discourses in and about Clayoquot Sound : a first nations perspective / Umeek of Ahousaht (E. Richard Atleo) -- Clearcut identities : tracking shapeshifters in Clayoquot Sound / Gary C. Shaw -- They seek it here, they seek it there : locating the political in Clayoquot Sound / R.B.J. Walker -- Conclusion--Clayoquot and the politics beyond / Warren Magnusson and Karena Shaw.

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