Make Straight in the Desert a Highway: Ideology and Environmental Conflict on the Colorado Plateau

abstract: In the rural, modern American West, two Manichean perspectives of the human-nature relationship have contributed to vehement environmental conflicts. Adopting developer Calvin Black and writer Edward Abbey as archetypes, I explore the endurance of these two ideologies in the redrock canyon...

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Other Authors: Rogers, Jedediah (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.8949