Rooted in the Land : Essays on Community and Place

by Edited by William Vitek and Wes Jackson

• ISBN13: 9780300065411
• ISBN10: 0300065418
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1996-10-30
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This book is a collection of new and previously published essays that take as their central theme the importance of 'placed' human beings, but each of us is enriched to the extent that we can belong to, and participate in, a well-ordered human community integrated into the natural landscape of a particular place.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	xi
Rediscovering the Landscape	1	(10)
WILLIAM VITEK
I. STANDING FIRM	11	(84)
ROOTLESSNESS	11	(24)
Leave If You Can	11	(4)
HARRY W. PAIGE
The Rootless Professors	15	(5)
ERIC ZENCEY
Pseudocommunities	20	(5)
DAVID EHRENFELD
From Monoculture to Polyculture	25	(10)
PAUL CUSTODIO BUBE
PERSPECTIVES, LOCAL AND GLOBAL	35	(25)
An Amish Perspective	35	(5)
DAVID KLINE
The Common Life	40	(10)
SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS
Living with the Land	50	(10)
HELENA NORBERG-HODGE
VALUING COMMUNITY	60	(35)
Defending Small Farms, Small Towns, and Good Work	60	(6)
LYNN R. MILLER
Addicted to Work	66	(10)
LINDA M. HASSELSTROM
Conserving Communities	76	(9)
WENDELL BERRY
Does Community Have a Value?--A Reply	85	(10)
CARL D. ESBJORNSON
II. COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS	95	(112)
PLACE	95	(37)
Matfield Green	95	(9)
WES JACKSON
Dwelling: Making Peace with Space and Place	104	(9)
DEBORAH TALL
Coming In to the Foodshed	113	(11)
JACK KLOPPENBURG, JR.
JOHN HENDRICKSON
G. W. STEVENSON
"Placed" between Promise and Command	124	(8)
WALTER BRUEGGEMANN
THE ECOLOGICAL CONNECTION	132	(35)
Other Selves	132	(8)
JOHN A. LIVINGSTON
Aldo Leopold as Hunter and Communitarian	140	(10)
FRANKLIN A. KALINOWSKI
Aldo Leopold and the values of the Native	150	(11)
GREGORY COOPER
Biological Explanations and Environmental Expectations	161	(6)
KRISTIN SHRADER-FRECHETTE
COMMUNITY CRITERIA	167	(40)
Barn Raising	167	(9)
DANIEL KEMMIS
Community and the Virtue of Necessity	176	(9)
WILLIAM VITEK
Defining Normative Community	185	(10)
JOHN B. COBB, JR.
In Search of Community	195	(12)
PHILIP SELZNICK
III. BECOMING NATIVE	207	(66)
CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT	207	(37)
Redeeming the Land	207	(10)
RICHARD CARTWRIGHT AUSTIN
Creating Social Capital	217	(9)
CORNELIA BUTLER FLORA
JAN L. FLORA
Re-Ruralizing Education	226	(9)
DAVID W. ORR
A Public Philosophy for Civic Culture	235	(9)
WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT	244	(29)
Land: Challenge and Opportunity	244	(9)
SUSAN WITT
ROBERT SWANN
Community Supported Agriculture: Rediscovering Community	253	(8)
JACK KITTREDGE
Community Farming in Massachusetts	261	(12)
BRIAN DONAHUE
WORKS CITED	273	(8)
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS	281	(2)
INDEX	283