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A place for dialogue : language, land use, and politics in Southern Arizona / Sharon McKenzie Stevens ; foreword by Wayne Franklin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevens, Sharon McKenzie.
- Series:
- American land and life series.
- American land and life series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land use--Government policy--Arizona.
- Land use.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--Arizona.
- Rhetoric.
- Public lands--Arizona--Management.
- Public lands.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In A Place for Dialogue, Sharon McKenzie Stevens views the contradictions and collaborations involved in the management of public land in southern Arizona-and by extension the entire arid West-through the lens of political rhetoric. Revealing the socioecological relationships among cattlemen and environmentalists as well as developers and recreationists, she analyzes the ways that language shapes landscape by shaping decisions about land use. Stevens focuses on the collaborative Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan initiated by Pima County, Arizona, the ubiquitous use of scientific argument to de
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword by Wayne Franklin; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. The Range of Rhetoric; 2. Open Space, Conservation, and Endangerment; 3. From Battle Lines to Collaborative Space; 4. Socioecology and the Future of the Land; 5. From Identity Politics to Dialogic Identities; Epilogue; Methodological Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-213) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-58729-765-5
- OCLC:
- 297118033
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