ABSTRACT
Since late 1996, a dedicated group of persons have agitated against the logging activities carried out in Goolengook forest block located in far eastern Victoria, Australia. Writing a micropolitical account of forest conflict will involve two interrelated tasks. In the first instance, it will mean tracing the various texts which have heralded the imposition of particular modes of environmental regulation. In the second, it will mean articulating how several of Deleuze and Guattaris' concepts impact the dichotomies underpinning such regulatory policies. This chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book. The book offers an overview of modernist accounts of environmental damage/conflict. It cites and deconstructs the texts that helped to configure Goolengook as exhibiting one – and only one – kind of quality. The book begins with a text which constructs portions of Goolengook as a place of unremarked potential and concludes with a reference to this site a place subject to police raids.
