Description
In the summer of 1993, activists set up a peace camp blocking a logging road into an extensive area of temperate rainforest in Clayoquot Sound that was slated for clear-cutting. Twenty-odd years later, Clayoquot holds a prominent place in environmental discourse, yet it is not generally associated with feminist or eco/feminist movements.
The Changing Nature of Eco/Feminism argues that Clayoquot offers a potent site for examining a whole range of feminist issues. Through a careful study of eco/feminist activism against clear-cut logging practices in British Columbia, the book explores how a transnational eco/feminist practice insisted on an account of logging situated in histories of colonialism, holding the Canadian state to account for its deforestation practices. Moore demonstrates that the sheer vitality of eco/feminist politics at the Peace Camp in the summer of 1993 confounded dominant narratives of contemporary feminism and has re-imagined eco/feminist politics for new times.
The Changing Nature of Eco/Feminism sheds new light on a pivotal movement in Canadian, and feminist, history, challenging what we thought we knew about Clayoquot Sound and the women who fought to save it.
About the Author
Niamh Moore is a Chancellor's Fellow in sociology at the University of Edinburgh.
Book Information
ISBN 9780774826280
Author Niamh Moore
Format Paperback
Page Count 284
Imprint University of British Columbia Press
Publisher University of British Columbia Press
