Rooted in the Land : Essays on Community and

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.

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

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