Taking tea with Grandaddy Tough: Accessing the affective topography of logging poetry and labour |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Urology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California;2. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California;3. Department of Urology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California;4. Department of Urology, University of California-Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California;5. Department of Urology, University of California-San Diego Health System, San Diego, California;6. Department of Urology, Georgia Regents Health System, Augusta, Georgia;7. Department of Urology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon;1. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, PO Box 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancón, Republic of Panama;2. Institute of Biology, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands;3. Department of Biology, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD 21801, USA;4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA;5. Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA;1. Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1799 Jimei Boulevard, Xiamen 361021, China;2. State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China;3. State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China;1. School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia;2. Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras 2780-156, Portugal |
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| Abstract: | In this article I draw upon life history interviews I conducted with retired loggers on the Sechelt Peninsula of British Columbia and published logger poetry to examine the complex embodied and affective relations loggers have with the landscapes they helped shape and the machines and conditions under which they worked. Specifically I examine how the dangers inherent to logging labour are paired with particular affective relations to local landscapes and the machines with which logger's shaped them. I suggest that repetitive explanations offered in logger poetry and the labour history interviews I conducted be examined as something more nuanced, interesting and grounded than mere masculine self-mythologizing. I explore these representations as evidence of an incomplete, melancholic process of mourning for personal and environmental losses sustained in logging labour. |
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