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Reclaiming rural character
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Reclaiming rural character
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conservation, conflict, and the nostalgic landscapes of Orcas Island, Washington
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ETD_1613
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.000051171
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eng
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theses
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Anthropology
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Land use, Rural--Washington (State)--Orcas Island
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Land use--Washington (State)--Orcas Island
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Landscape protection--Washington (State)--Orcas Island
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This dissertation takes an ethnographic approach to examining the meanings of rural character on Orcas Island, in San Juan County, Washington. In spite of the challenges facing productive agriculture in the county, achieving rural character remains the stated goal of county planning efforts, environmental groups, affordable housing advocates, and private landowners. Drawing from the anthropology of landscape, political ecology, and critical readings of memory and history, this project examines the definitions of rurality in a place where farming and other types of labor have been overshadowed by real estate speculation and tourism. More broadly, this work argues that land management is a highly subjective process that engages aesthetic preferences, popular ecological models, cultural conceptions of property, and concerns with labor and affordability. In particular, looking at conservation easements can highlight the ways in which nostalgic longings for particular landscapes can be elevated to the level of political economic conflict, in which only certain individuals are able to shape the land according to personally or culturally shared visions.
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x, 285 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-284)
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by Sharon L. Baskind-Wing
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Baskind-Wing
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Sharon L.
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1980
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McDermott Hughes
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David
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David McDermott Hughes
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Hodgson
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Dorothy
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Dorothy Hodgson
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Schroeder
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Richard
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McCay
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Bonnie
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Bonnie McCay
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Susan
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Susan Schrepfer
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2009
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2009-05
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xx
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3SN0966
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ETD doctoral
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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