Rooted in the land : essays on community and place / edited by William Vitek and Wes Jackson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vitek, William, 1957-

Jackson, Wes, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communities.

Community life.

Physical Description:

xiii, 285 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©1996.

Summary:

This book is dedicated to the notion that human lives are enriched by participation in a social community that is integrated into the natural landscape of a particular place. The writers explore the loss of community, the philosophical foundations of communities, Amish communities, and the current renewal of community life.

Contents:

Rediscovering the landscape / William Vitek

Leave if you can / Harry W. Paige

The rootless professors / Eric Zencey

Pseudocommunities / David Ehrenfeld

From monoculture to polyculture / Paul Custodio Bube

An Amish perspective / David Kline

The common life / Scott Russell Sanders

Living with the land / Helena Norberg-Hodge

Defending small farms, small towns, and good work / Lynn R. Miller

Addicted to work / Linda M. Hasselstrom

Conserving communities / Wendell Berry

Does community have a value?

A reply / Carl D. Esbjornson.

Matfield Green / Wes Jackson

Dwelling: making peace with space and place / Deborah Tall

Coming in to the foodshed / Jack Kloppenburg, Jr., John Hendrickson, and G.W. Stevenson

"Placed" between promise and command / Walter Brueggemann

Other selves / John A. Livingston

Aldo Leopold as hunter and communitarian / Franklin A. Kalinowski

Aldo Leopold and the values of the native / Gregory Cooper

Biological explanations and environmental expectations / Kristin Shrader-Frechette

Barn raising / Daniel Kemmis

Community and the virtue of necessity / William Vitek

Defining normative community / John B. Cobb, Jr.

In search of community / Philip Selznick.

Redeeming the land / Richard Cartwright Austin

Creating social capital / Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora

Re-ruralizing education / David W. Orr

A public philosophy for civic culture / William M. Sullivan

Land: challenge and opportunity / Susan Witt and Robert Swann

Community-supported agriculture: rediscovering community / Jack Kittredge

Community farming in Massachusetts / Brian Donahue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index.

ISBN:

0300065418

9780300065411

0300069618

9780300069617

OCLC:

34356674

Access Restriction:

Electronic version is restricted to subscribing institutions.