Creating the Countryside
Will be published approx. on 26. January 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-1-56639-360-7 (ISBN)
Description
People active in regional environmental crises discuss the destruction, conservation, and creation of the countryside
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56639-360-7 (9781566393607)
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Content
List of Tables, Figures, and Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Peter Vandergeest and E. Melanie DuPuis Part I: Modernization and Marginalization 2. Stone Age New England: A Geology of Morals Michael M. Bell 3. The Farm as Firm: Rhetoric and the Remanufacturing of Basque Agrarian Production Peter Leigh Taylor Part II: People In and Out of Nature 4. In the Name of Nature: Ecology, Marginality, and Rural Land Use Planning during the New Deal E. Melanie DuPuis 5. "Reserving" Value: Conservation Ideology and State Protection of Resources Nancy Lee Peluso 6. Native Amazonians and the Making of the Amazon Wilderness: From Discourse of Riches and Sloth to Underdevelopment Bill Fisher 7. Reverence Is Not Enough: Ecological Marxism and Indian Adivasis Amita Baviskar 8. Caribbean Environmentalism: An Ambiguous Discourse Barbara Deutsch Lynch Part III: Constructing Rurality 9. Consuming Images: Making and Marketing Vermont as Distinctive Rural Place C. Clare Hinrichs 10. Real Villages: National Narratives of Development Peter Vandergeest Gendered Memory: Reconstructions of a Rural Place of Origin by Mexican Transnational Migrants Luin P. Goldring 11. Gendered Memory: Constructions of Rurality Among Mexican Transnational Migrants Luin Goldring About the Contributors Index