%0 Journal Article
%T BC¡¯s Representational Silviculture and the Negative Affect of the Pine Beetle Animal Story
%A V. Haynes
%J The Brock Review
%D 2011
%I 
%X Examining the broader question, ¡°What role does the animal story play in the narration of ecological crisis and how does that narrative impact the story subject,¡± this paper focuses on the Mountain Pine Beetle eco-crisis consuming the forests of BC. I assert that the government constructs an animal story for the Pine Beetle and capitalizes on the negative affect it associates with the story to manipulate the public¡¯s sense of blame and responsibility for the crisis. As a result of this representation, the Pine Beetle ceases to be animal and bears responsibility for the crisis while being denied the possibility of an inhabitant¡¯s right to the forest.
%K Ecocriticism
%K cultural studies
%K Pine Beetle
%K animal story
%K eco-crisis
%U http://www.brocku.ca/brockreview/index.php/brockreview/article/view/330