Carbon nullius and racial rule: Race, nature and the cultural politics of forest carbon in Canada

Andrew Baldwin

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Abstract

Critical geographers have paid remarkably scant attention to issues of climate change, even less so to forest carbon management policy. Building on geographic debate concerning the ontological production of nature and race, this paper argues that at stake in the climate change debate are not simply questions of energy geopolitics or green production. Also at issue in the climate debate are powerful questions of identity, the national form and race. This paper considers how a particular slice of the climate debate - forest carbon management discourse pertaining to Canada's boreal forest - enacts a political geography of racial difference, one that seeks to accommodate an imagined mode of traditional aboriginal life to the exigencies of global climate change mitigation and, importantly, to a logic of global capital now well into its ecological phase. © 2009 The Author Journal compilation © 2009 Editorial Board of Antipode.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)231-255
Number of pages24
JournalAntipode
Volume41
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Keywords

  • Aboriginal peoples
  • Boreal forest
  • Forest carbon management
  • Nature
  • Race

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Carbon nullius and racial rule: Race, nature and the cultural politics of forest carbon in Canada'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this