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TEACHING MATERIALS
FOREST LOST
Highway Landscapes
The Flood
The Rural Road, Part 1
The Rural Road, Part 2
Afterword. Carbon Bust
TEACHING WITH
FOREST LOST
1. Carbon Boom
i. Highway Landscapes
2. Producing the Forest
ii. The Flood
3. Robin Hood in the Untenured Forest
iii. The Rural Road, Part 1
4. Beneficiaries and Forest Citizenship
iv. The Rural Road, Part 2
5. The Urban Forest
v. Afterword. Carbon Bust
i. Highway Landscapes
ii. The Flood
iii. The Rural Road, Part 1
iv. The Rural Road, Part 2
v. Afterword. Carbon Bust
Chapter 1: Carbon Boom
“The living forest was central to Acre’s recent history. The idea that it could be profitable was, then, not an import of a global green capitalism. Rather, Acrean rubber—an export product without much direct local use—showed that the living forest could generate great wealth.” (Greenleaf 41)
Chapter 1 presents the telling and retelling of Acrean rubber history, from harvest practices and the turbulence of rubber as a commodity to the social movements and migrations that emerged from economic precarity. The chapter centers on a key component of efforts to make Acrean forest carbon valuable to potential carbon offset buyers in places like California - what Greenleaf calls the “rubber narrative.” The chapter also examines forest carbon’s materiality and temporality, exploring how the rubber narrative both differentiated and standardized Acrean forest carbon in ways that illustrate some dynamics of green capitalism.
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