This Land Is Our Land by Jedediah Purdy
A leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other. From the coalfields of Appalachia and the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the public lands of the West, Purdy shows how the land has always united and divided Americans.
"This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth. . is . . . about how to live together once we’ve accepted that there is nothing more “natural” than living in society with other human beings, in a world in which politics and ecology have come to be one and the same. It’s a book to read now and to think from. It’s a call to action."---Aaron Bady, The Nation
"[A reminder] of just how capable human beings are of remaking the world, when it suits them."---Rachel Riederer, New Yorker
"A work of analytical and moral clarity."---Greg Grandin
"A soulful work of political theory. . . . Purdy believes that reckoning with climate change demands a deeper and more comprehensive overhaul of our infrastructure, and This Land Is Our Land is an invitation to imagine the new world—and the new society—that this overhaul could produce."---Eric Klinenberg, New York Review of Books
"An urgent rallying cry for a planet and people in crisis. It is rich in ideas, shifting easily from radical miners’ unions to the rise of the far right, from Thoreau’s insights to the history of environmental regulation, but it is a work that remains consistently grounded in the land."---Adam Weymouth, Resurgent and Ecologist Magazine
"[A reminder] of just how capable human beings are of remaking the world, when it suits them."---Rachel Riederer, New Yorker
"A work of analytical and moral clarity."---Greg Grandin
"A soulful work of political theory. . . . Purdy believes that reckoning with climate change demands a deeper and more comprehensive overhaul of our infrastructure, and This Land Is Our Land is an invitation to imagine the new world—and the new society—that this overhaul could produce."---Eric Klinenberg, New York Review of Books
"An urgent rallying cry for a planet and people in crisis. It is rich in ideas, shifting easily from radical miners’ unions to the rise of the far right, from Thoreau’s insights to the history of environmental regulation, but it is a work that remains consistently grounded in the land."---Adam Weymouth, Resurgent and Ecologist Magazine
Jedediah Purdy is professor of law at Columbia Law School. His previous books include After Nature, A Tolerable Anarchy, Being America, and For Common Things. He contributes to the New Yorker, the Nation, the New Republic, the Atlantic, n+1, and other magazines. He lives in New York City. Twitter @JedediahSPurdy
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691195643 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691195641 |
| Title | This Land Is Our Land |
| Author | Jedediah Purdy |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2019-09-17 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
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