Water as Rural Heritage: Reworking Modernity through Resource Conflict in Edwards County, Kansas

Autor/in	Solis, Patricia
Titel	Water as Rural Heritage: Reworking Modernity through Resource Conflict in Edwards County, Kansas
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Studies, 21 (2005) 1, S.55-66 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-0167
DOI	10.1016/j.jrurstud.2004.08.006
Schlagwörter	Natural Resources; Rural Areas; Conflict; Water; Community Problems; Depleted Resources; Conflict Resolution; Discourse Analysis; Kansas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Natural Ressource; Natürliche Ressource; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Konflikt; Wasser; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung; Diskursanalyse
Abstract	Conflicts over changing uses of natural resources are familiar within communities of the Western US and are usually resolved through legal processes. This paper analyzes resource conflict through juxtaposing impact analyses often used in their juridical resolution with discourse analyses of affected rural communities. The purchase of property by a mid-size city in central Kansas to transfer water from a ranch along the Arkansas River in rural Edwards County evoked expressions of water as "heritage", functioning as a placed-based, defensive ideology. Plans for the first rural-to-urban interbasin water transfer in Kansas failed to materialize into a legal proposal because of the controversy that ensued, despite the fact that impact analyses suggested little material effect. In light of decades of decline due to economic frustration, political marginalization, and demographic outmigration, rural communities maintain the symbols of nature in order to legitimate their struggle against what are seen as intrusive, destructive elements of changing uses of natural resources. (Author).
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