Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse

List of Tables, Figures, and Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Peter Vandergeest and E. Melanie DuPuis Part I: Modernization and Marginalization 2. Stone Age New England: A Geology of Morals Michael M. Bell 3. The Farm as Firm: Rhetoric and the Remanufacturing of Basque Agrarian Production Peter Leigh Taylor Part II: People In and Out of Nature 4. In the Name of Nature: Ecology, Marginality, and Rural Land Use Planning during the New Deal E. Melanie DuPuis 5. Reserving Value: Conservation Ideology and State Protection of Resources Nancy Lee Peluso 6. Native Amazonians and the Making of the Amazon Wilderness: From Discourse of Riches and Sloth to Underdevelopment Bill Fisher 7. Reverence Is Not Enough: Ecological Marxism and Indian Adivasis Amita Baviskar 8. Caribbean Environmentalism: An Ambiguous Discourse Barbara Deutsch Lynch Part III: Constructing Rurality 9. Consuming Images: Making and Marketing Vermont as Distinctive Rural Place C. Clare Hinrichs 10. Real Villages: National Narratives of Development Peter Vandergeest Gendered Memory: Reconstructions of a Rural Place of Origin by Mexican Transnational Migrants Luin P. Goldring 11.