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Author Stevens, Sharon McKenzie.

Title A place for dialogue : language, land use, and politics in Southern Arizona / Sharon McKenzie Stevens ; foreword by Wayne Franklin.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series American land and life series
American land and life series.
Bibliography 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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Summary In A Place for Dialogue, Sharon McKenzie Stevens views the contradictions and collaborations involved in the management of public land in southern Arizona & mdash;and by extension the entire arid West & mdash;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.
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Subject Land use -- Government policy -- Arizona.
Land use -- Government policy.
Arizona.
Land use.
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Arizona.
Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
Public lands -- Arizona -- Management.
Public lands.
Management.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Place for dialog
Other Form: Print version: Stevens, Sharon McKenzie. Place for dialogue. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2007 1587295342 9781587295348 (DLC) 2006935964 (OCoLC)123128636
ISBN 9781587297656 (electronic book)
1587297655 (electronic book)
1587295342 (hardback)
9781587295348