Rooted in the Land
Essays on Community and Place
1st Edition
Published in December 1996
302 pages
978-0-300-12780-5 (ISBN)
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English
Place of publication
New Haven
United States
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Digital original
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1,00 MB
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978-0-300-12780-5 (9780300127805)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Rediscovering the Landscape
- I.Standing Firm
- Rootlessness
- Leave If You Can
- The Rootless Professors
- Pseudocommunities
- From Monoculture to Polyculture
- Perspectives, Local and Global
- An Amish Perspective
- The Common Life
- Living with the Land
- Valuing Community
- Defending Small Farms, Small Towns, and Good Work
- Addicted to Work
- Conserving Communities
- Does Community Have a Value?-A Reply
- II.Community Foundations
- Place
- Matfield Green
- Dwelling: Making Peace with Space and Place
- Coming In to the Foodshed
- "Placed" between Promise and Command
- The Ecological Connection
- Other Selves
- Aldo Leopold as Hunter and Communitarian
- Aldo Leopold and the Values of the Native
- Biological Explanations and Environmental Expectations
- Community Criteria
- Barn Raising
- Community and the Virtue of Necessity
- Defining Normative Community
- In Search of Community
- III.Becoming Native
- Conceptual Development
- Redeeming the Land
- Creating Social Capital
- Re-Ruralizing Education
- A Public Philosophy for Civic Culture
- Community Development
- Land: Challenge and Opportunity
- Community-Supported Agriculture: Rediscovering Community
- Community Farming in Massachusetts
- Works Cited
- List of Contributors
- Index
