Battle for Yellowstone (eBook)

Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict

Justin Farrell (Autor)

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2015
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6649-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Justin Farrell is assistant professor of sociology in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University.

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Yellowstone holds a special place in America's heart. As the world's first national park, it is globally recognized as the crown jewel of modern environmental preservation. But the park and its surrounding regions have recently become a lightning rod for environmental conflict, plagued by intense and intractable political struggles among the federal government, National Park Service, environmentalists, industry, local residents, and elected officials. The Battle for Yellowstone asks why it is that, with the flood of expert scientific, economic, and legal efforts to resolve disagreements over Yellowstone, there is no improvement? Why do even seemingly minor issues erupt into impassioned disputes? What can Yellowstone teach us about the worsening environmental conflicts worldwide?Justin Farrell argues that the battle for Yellowstone has deep moral, cultural, and spiritual roots that until now have been obscured by the supposedly rational and technical nature of the conflict. Tracing in unprecedented detail the moral causes and consequences of large-scale social change in the American West, he describes how a "e;new-west"e; social order has emerged that has devalued traditional American beliefs about manifest destiny and rugged individualism, and how morality and spirituality have influenced the most polarizing and techno-centric conflicts in Yellowstone's history.This groundbreaking book shows how the unprecedented conflict over Yellowstone is not all about science, law, or economic interests, but more surprisingly, is about cultural upheaval and the construction of new moral and spiritual boundaries in the American West.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.6.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Agriculture • American dream • American Exceptionalism • american national parks • americans • American West • animal rights • Big Fan • biologist • Biology • Bison herd • Bomb threat • Brucellosis • Buffalo Field Campaign • Bureau of Economic Analysis • Case study • cattle • conflict • Conflict Resolution • conservation biology • conservation movement • content analysis • cowboy hat • Culture • Defenders of Wildlife • Disgust • distrust • Ecology • Economics • ecosystem • Employment • Endangered Species Act • Engineering • Environment • environmental conflict • Environmental Degradation • Environmental impact statement • Environmentalism • Environmental issue • Environmentalist • environmental movement • environmental organization • Environmental Policy • environmental preservation • environmental protection • Explanation • Extended family • Federal lands • Generosity • Good and evil • grandparent • Gratitude • grazing • Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem • hatred • Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory • human behavior • ideal type • income • Indian reservation • Individualism • Institution • Island Press • Jackson Hole • Land development • livestock • miners • Modernity • moral boundaries • moral commitment • Morality • moralization • moral muting • moral order • moral visions • mountain range • narrative • National Environmental Policy Act • National parks • National Park Service • National Science Foundation • Natural Environment • Natural gas • natural gas drilling • natural gas well • natural resource • natural resources • New West • old-west • Old West • percentage • Place Attachment • policy conflict • policy debate • Politician • Politics • pollution • Population Growth • Public comment • Publishing • Ranch • Rationality • Recreation • reintroduction • Religion • religious muting • Science • Scientist • social change • social conflict • Social Life • Social Movement • Sociology • Sociology of Culture • species reintroduction • State Park • technorationality • To this Day • Tourism • United States Department of Agriculture • United States Department of the Interior • United States Forest Service • Utilitarianism • Viviana Zelizer • Washington, D.C. • Wilderness • Wildness • Wolf • Wolf reintroduction • Wyoming • Yellowstone • Yellowstone National Park
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6649-9 / 1400866499
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6649-6 / 9781400866496