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A Comparative Political Ecology of ExurbiaDeath by a Thousand Cuts? The Moral Terrain of Neoliberal Environmental Governance in the South Carolina Lowcountry, USA

A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia: Death by a Thousand Cuts? The Moral Terrain of... [The South Carolina “Lowcountry,” known for its antebellum history, has been rapidly transforming from a landscape shaped by an agricultural and natural resource economy to one also shaped by a real estate economy. In this chapter, we explore the role of specific actors in materializing the exurban vision through the planning process: specifically, we examine the formation of for-profit and nonprofit neoliberal environmental governance regimes in the ecologically sensitive landscapes of East Edisto and the Savannah River Preserve. Through a political ecological approach, we used participant observation, interviews, and discourse analysis to explore how these neoliberal actors in environmental planning—both within nonprofit and for-profit entities—develop a moral discourse that shapes how people will live on the landscape. In contrast to literature suggesting that the commodification of nature in contemporary neoliberalization results in a “tragedy of the commons,” we found corporations and civil society filling a gap where state governance has been diminished in the neoliberal context, motivated by their “emotional responsibility” for the future of local cultural traditions related to the natural landscape.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Comparative Political Ecology of ExurbiaDeath by a Thousand Cuts? The Moral Terrain of Neoliberal Environmental Governance in the South Carolina Lowcountry, USA

Editors: Taylor, Laura E.; Hurley, Patrick T.
Watson, Annette; Skaggs, Kate
A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia — May 27, 2016
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
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978-3-319-29460-5
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147 –178
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10.1007/978-3-319-29462-9_7
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Abstract

[The South Carolina “Lowcountry,” known for its antebellum history, has been rapidly transforming from a landscape shaped by an agricultural and natural resource economy to one also shaped by a real estate economy. In this chapter, we explore the role of specific actors in materializing the exurban vision through the planning process: specifically, we examine the formation of for-profit and nonprofit neoliberal environmental governance regimes in the ecologically sensitive landscapes of East Edisto and the Savannah River Preserve. Through a political ecological approach, we used participant observation, interviews, and discourse analysis to explore how these neoliberal actors in environmental planning—both within nonprofit and for-profit entities—develop a moral discourse that shapes how people will live on the landscape. In contrast to literature suggesting that the commodification of nature in contemporary neoliberalization results in a “tragedy of the commons,” we found corporations and civil society filling a gap where state governance has been diminished in the neoliberal context, motivated by their “emotional responsibility” for the future of local cultural traditions related to the natural landscape.]

Published: May 27, 2016

Keywords: Plantation rural idyll; African-American racial politics; Cluster development; Moral geography; Symbolic landscape

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