Public Land and Democracy in America
Understanding Conflict over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
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2025
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3301-1 (ISBN)
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Julie Brugger explores what democracy means to ordinary Americans by analyzing conflict over public lands and the management of Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument in southern Utah.
In recent years the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has figured prominently in the long and ongoing struggle over the meaning and value of America’s public lands. In 1996 President Bill Clinton used the Antiquities Act to create the monument, with the goal of protecting scientific and historical resources. His action incensed Utah elected officials and local residents who were neither informed nor consulted beforehand, and opposition to the monument has continued to make its day-to-day management problematic. In 2017 President Donald Trump reduced the monument’s size, an action immediately challenged by multiple lawsuits; subsequently, President Joe Biden restored the monument in 2021.
In Public Land and Democracy in America Julie Brugger brings into focus the perspectives of a variety of groups affected by conflict over the monument, including residents of adjacent communities, ranchers, federal land management agency employees, and environmentalists. In the process of following management disputes at the monument over the years, Brugger considers how conceptions of democracy have shaped and been shaped by the regional landscape and by these disputes.
Through this ethnographic evidence, Brugger proposes a concept of democracy that encompasses disparate meanings and experiences, embraces conflict, and suggests a crucial role for public lands in transforming antagonism into agonism.
In recent years the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has figured prominently in the long and ongoing struggle over the meaning and value of America’s public lands. In 1996 President Bill Clinton used the Antiquities Act to create the monument, with the goal of protecting scientific and historical resources. His action incensed Utah elected officials and local residents who were neither informed nor consulted beforehand, and opposition to the monument has continued to make its day-to-day management problematic. In 2017 President Donald Trump reduced the monument’s size, an action immediately challenged by multiple lawsuits; subsequently, President Joe Biden restored the monument in 2021.
In Public Land and Democracy in America Julie Brugger brings into focus the perspectives of a variety of groups affected by conflict over the monument, including residents of adjacent communities, ranchers, federal land management agency employees, and environmentalists. In the process of following management disputes at the monument over the years, Brugger considers how conceptions of democracy have shaped and been shaped by the regional landscape and by these disputes.
Through this ethnographic evidence, Brugger proposes a concept of democracy that encompasses disparate meanings and experiences, embraces conflict, and suggests a crucial role for public lands in transforming antagonism into agonism.
Julie Brugger was previously a research social scientist at the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona.
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1. Landscape
1. National Landscape
2. Regional Landscape
Part 2. Conflict
3. Conflict over Grazing
4. Conflict over Roads
Part 3. Democracy
5. The Locals: Democracy and Community
6. The Ranchers: Democracy and Freedom
7. The Environmentalists: Democracy and the Environment
8. The BLM Employees: Democracy and Bureaucracy
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.1.2025 |
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Reihe/Serie | Anthropology of Contemporary North America |
Zusatzinfo | 18 photographs, 2 illustrations, 5 maps, 3 tables, index |
Verlagsort | Lincoln |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4962-3301-8 / 1496233018 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-3301-1 / 9781496233011 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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