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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782756403321

Autore

Stevens Sharon McKenzie

Titolo

A place for dialogue [[electronic resource] ] : language, land use, and politics in Southern Arizona / / Sharon McKenzie Stevens ; foreword by Wayne Franklin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2007

ISBN

1-58729-765-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

American land and life series

Altri autori (Persone)

FranklinWayne

Disciplina

333.73/60979177

Soggetti

Land use - Government policy - Arizona

Rhetoric - Political aspects - Arizona

Public lands - Arizona - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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