Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index.
Contents
Range of rhetoric -- Open space, conservation, and endangerment -- From battle lines to collaborative space -- Socioecology and the future of the land -- From identity politics to dialogic identities.
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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 ar.