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Imagining Wilderness: Exploring the Historical Roots of "Frontier Identity" and its Impacts on the Environmental Movement.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Imagining Wilderness: Exploring the Historical Roots of "Frontier Identity" and its Impacts on the Environmental Movement./
Author:	Gabehart, Kayla M.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	102 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International56-04(E).
Subject:	Environmental studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10274187
ISBN:	9781369785999

Imagining Wilderness: Exploring the Historical Roots of "Frontier Identity" and its Impacts on the Environmental Movement.
Gabehart, Kayla M.

Imagining Wilderness: Exploring the Historical Roots of "Frontier Identity" and its Impacts on the Environmental Movement. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 102 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Colorado at Denver, 2017.

Since colonization, Euro Americans have set foot on the shores of what would become the United States with the intent to civilize a savage "wilderness," whether that be in the name of religious piety, economic gain, or settlement and expansion. This idea of civilizing "wilderness" has gone through many re-imaginings in American culture, from Manifest Destiny to the "American Dream" to foreign interventions, Americans have perceived the physical environment as a "frontier," separate from the human condition, to be crossed into and improved via settlement, development, or preservation. The environment thus has effectively been commodified in the sense that it can be bought and sold. The buying and selling of the physical environment and the potential of massive payoffs has further led to the corruption of some non-profit environmental organizations, as evidenced by the case study of the Nature Conservancy. The Conservancy has bought and sold carbon offsets and tracts of land they vowed to protect, often dispossessing Native populations in order to reap massive profits in a sort of postmodern colonialism dynamic. This construction of modern "frontiers" is now impacting the environmental movement, as evidenced by the geopolitical divide that separates the United States and much of the rest of the world, particularly the European Union, when it comes to negotiating international agreements to mitigate the effects of manmade climate change. Thus, any progress towards cooperative global efforts to combat climate change are currently unlikely due to poor communication about climate science amongst the general population in America, politicization of the issue, and marked differences in climate and energy policy in the United States, compared to the European Union.

ISBN: 9781369785999Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122803
Environmental studies.

Imagining Wilderness: Exploring the Historical Roots of "Frontier Identity" and its Impacts on the Environmental Movement.
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