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- W3202653367 abstract "Yellowstone holds a special place inAmerica’s heart - a young nation’s Eden - and the crown-jewel ofmodern preservation. As the world’s first national park, it isglobally recognized as the prototype of natural purity andgoodness. But in recent decades, Yellowstone and its surroundingareas have become a lightning rod for environmental controversy, anarea plagued by social disunity and intractable politicalstruggle. Science and policy efforts areespecially protracted in the GYE, involving hundreds of diverseinterest-organizations, dozens of state agencies, three separatestate governments, hundreds-of-thousands of local residents, andmillions of concerned Americans. Accordingly, management decisionsin the GYE rely on a hyper-rationalized form of governance thatprivileges technical facts, scientific analysis of nature,bureaucratic administration, and legal formalism. This raises thefollowing puzzle: why, with the flood of expert scientific, legal,economic, and political efforts to resolve disagreements overYellowstone, are matters not improving? Despite all of theseefforts, why do even the most minor issues still recurrently eruptinto impassioned and long-lasting disputes? Myargument is that this modern obsession with scientific, legal, andeconomic reasoning misses out on deeper cultural mechanisms drivingthe conflict in the first place. Put more specifically, I arguethat any sociological account of this conflict should be built upona more empirically accurate and philosophically sophisticated modelof human persons and cultures, that does not presuppose narrow ordeterministic motivational frameworks, but understands that the“why,” in the end, is a question of morality - perhaps even“spirituality” - stemming from our lived experiences as part ofhuman cultures, shaped by narratives and moral orders that tell usmost fundamentally who we are, why we are, what we should do, andwhy it all matters. Drawing on work in cultural sociology and moraltheory to make this argument. I reorient our attention to the sortsof “whys”‘ that make life meaningful for different cultures, andpropel them forward toward particular ends, and not other ends.These are the sorts of answers to the “why” questions that we needto incorporate into our theories and methods if we hope to improveour understanding of the human-environment relationship moregenerally. My sociological approach focusesless on the individuals themselves, and more on the cultural,moral, and spiritual contexts in which stakeholders are embedded,shaping their beliefs and desires. Somewhat implicit in my argumentis that, for a variety of reasons, these deeper moral and spiritualmeanings are often ignored, muted, and misunderstood. But onlyuntil we engage these sorts of questions at a much deeper level canwe begin to understand why the mountains of technical evidencemarshaled in the Yellowstone conflict have done little to solvedisputes that are, finally, not about the facts themselves, butabout what make the…" @default.
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- W3202653367 title "The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots ofEnvironmental Conflict" @default.
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