
Antipode, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: March 4, 2025
Abstract This article tells the story of how a massive belt private forest land located on eastern seaboard Vancouver Island has functioned as “reserve army” timber that capital drawn when they have found themselves increasingly constrained in their operations Crown land. Crucially, this reserve army trees was, and still is, constituted through racialised regime property ownership initiated by 19 th century grants to Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Company. The details exceptionality lands enabled an extractive forestry which Indigenous nations struggled protect rights title context where tenure reigns supreme.
Language: Английский