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What’s good for the soil is good for the soul: scientific farming, environmental subjectivities, and the ethics of stewardship in southwestern Oklahoma

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  • Tony N. VanWinkle

    (University of Oklahoma)

  • Jack R. Friedman

    (University of Oklahoma)

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Based on 10 months of mixed ethnographic and archival research, this study is concerned with ways in which contemporary agro-environmental subjectivities and practices in a southwestern Oklahoma farming community are rooted in the massive state-level interventions of the New Deal era and their successors. We are likewise concerned with how those interventions have become interdigitated with moral discourses and community ethics, as simultaneous expressions of both farmers’ identities and the systems of power in which they practice farming. Through historic and ethnographic evidence, we demonstrate the ways in which the localization of American agricultural conservation and the attendant, edificatory role of resource bureaucracies have shaped contemporary practices and ideologies of natural resource stewardship among conventional farmers and ranchers.

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  • Tony N. VanWinkle & Jack R. Friedman, 2017. "What’s good for the soil is good for the soul: scientific farming, environmental subjectivities, and the ethics of stewardship in southwestern Oklahoma," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 34(3), pages 607-618, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:34:y:2017:i:3:d:10.1007_s10460-016-9750-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s10460-016-9750-z
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    1. Lowdermilk, W. C., 1953. "Conquest of the Land through Seven Thousand Years," Agricultural Information Bulletins 309018, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    2. Donald Worster, 1985. "A sense of soil: Agricultural conservation and American culture," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 2(4), pages 28-35, September.
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