ABSTRACT
The author finds the presumed authority of the prevailing analytic categories to be more troubling than my sense of the absence of clear grounds for judgement, especially insofar as the most authoritative categories of analysis have been framed in relation to something identified as 'Canadian politics' or the 'politics of British Columbia'. An analysis suggests that Clayoquot Sound has to be understood as a specific site in the contemporary global circuits of capital. It is in this context that people see a focus on the forestry companies engaged in stripping the forestry cover as internationally or globally organized practices, subject to globally organized commodity prices and mobilizing globally organized capacities to discipline provincially organized labour forces and institutions of political authority. Clayoquot Sound was in part to be found in the global markets in which its products were being taken: hence the international campaign and, the development of networks of relations among environmental activists in many other supposedly local places.
