Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Note on Names and Methods ix
5. Introduction: A Cultural Dialogue about Old-Growth Forests 3
6. The Cycle of History: Public Lands, Forest Health, and Activist Histories in the American West 15
7. Disturbances in the Field and the Defining of Social Movements 38
8. Negotiating Agency and the Quest for Grassroots Legitimacy 63
9. Voodoo Science and Common Sense 81
10. Theorizing Culture: Defining the Past and Imagining the Possible 99
11. Irrational Actors: Emotion, Ethics, and the Ecocentred Self 135
12. A Concluding Discussion: The Triangular Shape of Cultural Production 160
13. Notes 172
14. References 181
15. Index 190