This wide-ranging collection of essays is intended to provoke both thought and action. The pieces collected here explore a variety of issues facing the American West—disappearing Native American languages, deteriorating air quality, suburban sprawl, species loss, grassland degradation, and many others—and suggest steps toward “healing.” More than “dealing with” or “solving,” according to the editors, healing addresses not just symptoms but their underlying causes, offering not just a temporary cure but a permanent one.
The signs of illness and trauma can seem omnipresent in today’s West: land and soil disrupted from mining, overgrazing, logging, and farming; wildlife habitat reduced and fragmented; native societies disturbed and threatened; open space diminished by cities and suburbs; wilderness destroyed by roads and recreation-seekers. But as these essays suggest, the “treatment program” for healing the West has many healthful side effects. Engaging in the kinds of projects suggested by contributors is therapeutic not only for the environment but for participants as well. Restoration, repair, and recovery can counter symptoms of despair with concentrated doses of promise and possibility.
The more “lesions” the West has, this book suggests, the more opportunities there are for westerners to revive and ultimately cure the ailing patient they have helped to create. The very idea of restoring the West to health, contributors and editors contend, unleashes our imaginations, sharpens our minds, and gives meaning to the ways we choose to live our lives. At the same time, acknowledging the profound difficulties of the work that lies ahead immunizes us against our own arrogance as we set about the task of healing the West.
Recenzijos
Various ideas from Remedies for a New West can, and should, be applied on a national and international scale. Voices From the Earth
"This important collection is a gift to all of us who care about the West. It belongs on the shelf of every Westerner who questions the narratives of the past and wants to contribute to those of the future." Tucson Weekly
Readers who are more interested in the humanities may well find themselves reading about ecological issues, while scientists interested in the latter may read about the humanities. This book is valuable because it shows that restoration activities in both realms are equally important, and that they inform one another in unexpected ways. Peter Friederici, author of Nature's Restoration: People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation
| Foreword |
|
vii | |
|
|
| Prologue: The Lessons and Lesions of Conquest |
|
1 | |
|
|
| Introduction: Healing the West |
|
13 | (14) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Part 1 Saving What's Out There, Preventing Further Decline |
|
|
|
Healing the West with Taxes: The Navajo Nation and the Enactment of Sovereignty |
|
|
27 | (20) |
|
|
|
Indigenous Languages of the West: A Prognosis for the Future |
|
|
47 | (19) |
|
|
|
``Oh Give Me Land, Lots of Land'' |
|
|
66 | (29) |
|
|
|
|
|
Part 2 Recovering What's Been Lost, Healing Injury |
|
|
|
Reversing the Trend of Habitat Loss in the American West: The Uncertain Promise of Ecological Restoration |
|
|
95 | (17) |
|
|
|
Recovering the West: Mexicans and the Memory of Tomorrow's Landscape |
|
|
112 | (22) |
|
|
|
Healing with Howls: Rewilding the Southern Rockies |
|
|
134 | (19) |
|
|
|
A Scholar Intervenes: Matachines, Ritual Continuity, and Cultural Well-Being |
|
|
153 | (20) |
|
|
|
Cleaning Up Abandoned Hard-Rock Mines in the Western United States: Can and Will Communities Take the Lead? |
|
|
173 | (22) |
|
|
|
Part 3 Lessons from Conflict |
|
|
|
The Klamath Basin as a Proving Ground for the Endangered Species Act |
|
|
195 | (35) |
|
|
|
Hope in a World of Wounds: Sustainable Stewardship in Colorado |
|
|
230 | (18) |
|
|
|
Open Wound from a Tough Nuclear History: Forgetting How We Made Ourselves and Endangered Species |
|
|
248 | (14) |
|
|
| Epilogue: Healing the West over Time |
|
262 | (25) |
|
|
| Notes |
|
287 | (24) |
| About the Editors |
|
311 | (2) |
| About the Contributors |
|
313 | (4) |
| Index |
|
317 | |
Patricia Nelson Limerick is the faculty director and board chair of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, where she is also a professor of history. She is the author of The Legacy of Conquest, and many of her most notable articles, including Dancing with Professors: The Trouble with Academic Prose, were collected in 2000 under the title Something in the Soil.
Andrew Cowell is a professor of linguistic anthropology at the University of Colorado. His work focuses on language shift, documentation, maintenance, and revitalization, as well as topics in discourse, conversation, identity, and language ideology. His is the author or editor of several books.
Sharon K. Collinge is an associate professor of biology and environmental studies in the Environmental Studies Program and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado. She is a conservation biologist and restoration ecologist whose research focuses on understanding the ecological consequences of human-induced changes to natural systems.
Daugiau apie elektronines knygas