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From the abuse of the Amazon rain forest to how Vermont has been marketed as the ideal rural place, this title looks at what the countryside is, and should be. It examines the underlying tendencies and subsequent policies that separate country from city, developed land from wilderness, and human activity from natural processes.
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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
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From the abuse of the Amazon rain forest to how Vermont has been marketed as the ideal rural place, this title looks at what the countryside is, and should be. It examines the underlying tendencies and subsequent policies that separate country from city, developed land from wilderness, and human activity from natural processes.
