Make straight in the desert a highway: ideology and environmental conflict on the Colorado Plateau

1978-  Jedediah S. (Jedediah Smart) Rogers

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…

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 country of southern Utah and northern Arizona.

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Rogers, Jedediah S. (Jedediah Smart), 1978- (Author)
Hirt, Paul W. (Thesis advisor)
Pyne, Stephen J. (Committee member)
Fixico, Donald L. (Committee member)
Arizona State University (Publisher)

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2011

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Make straight in the desert a highway: ideology and environmental conflict on the Colorado Plateau

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