A Place for Dialogue: Language, Land Use, and Politics in Southern Arizona

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Stevens, Sharon McKenzie. A Place for Dialogue: Language, Land Use, and Politics in Southern Arizona. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007.

Sharon McKenzie Stevens views the contradictions and collaborations involved in the management of public land in southern Arizona—and by extension the entire arid West—through the lens of political rhetoric. Revealing the socioecological relationships among cattlemen and environmentalists as well as developers and recreationists, she analyzes the ways that language shapes landscape by shaping decisions about land use. — University of Iowa Press website.