عنوان

Theorizing Logger Religion within the Pacific Northwest Timber Conflict

شماره

LA129633

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Theorizing Logger Religion within the Pacific Northwest Timber Conflict

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Christopher Serenari, Nils Peterson, Brett Clark, et al.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This paper examines the links between the material and symbolic nature of timber extraction during the Pacific Northwest (PNW) timber wars of the 1980s and 1990s. Applying Durkheim's work on religion and social solidarity, the authors consider a form of logger religion that emerged through many years of PNW timber production, shaping the identities of loggers and timber community dynamics. This paper proposes that forests are spaces that bridge the sacred and profane. Our evaluation examines a totemic meaning assigned to loggers originating from forest-based labour and reinforced by timber communities through rituals. Throughout the timber wars, loggers also developed a conflicted consciousness, stemming from their connection to and the destruction of forests. Given the character of logger religion that existed, the deployment of forest management and community development policies may not adequately re-create tacit relationships between the sacred and profane, previously damaged as a result of the drastic decline in timber production in the PNW. This paper examines the links between the material and symbolic nature of timber extraction during the Pacific Northwest (PNW) timber wars of the 1980s and 1990s. Applying Durkheim's work on religion and social solidarity, the authors consider a form of logger religion that emerged through many years of PNW timber production, shaping the identities of loggers and timber community dynamics. This paper proposes that forests are spaces that bridge the sacred and profane. Our evaluation examines a totemic meaning assigned to loggers originating from forest-based labour and reinforced by timber communities through rituals. Throughout the timber wars, loggers also developed a conflicted consciousness, stemming from their connection to and the destruction of forests. Given the character of logger religion that existed, the deployment of forest management and community development policies may not adequately re-create tacit relationships between the sacred and profane, previously damaged as a result of the drastic decline in timber production in the PNW.

تاريخ نشر

2015

توصيف ظاهري

265-281

عنوان

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

شماره جلد

19/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5357

اصطلاح موضوعی

Durkheim

اصطلاح موضوعی

logger

اصطلاح موضوعی

Pacific Northwest

اصطلاح موضوعی

religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

totem

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Brett Clark

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Christopher Serenari

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Nils Peterson

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685357-01903004

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y