Buried epistemologies: The politics of nature in (post) colonial British Columbia

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-31

  Willems Braun, Bruce ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural politics; Environmentalism; Nature; Postcolonialism

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL REPRESENTATION; HISTORICAL STUDY; NATURE CONSTRUCTION; RAINFOREST; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CANADA, BRITISH COLUMBIA;

EID: 0030864460     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0004-5608.00039     Document Type: Article

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