Watershed as Common-Place: Communicating for Conservation at the Watershed Scale

摘要: This article, highlighting qualitative data collected from farmers and landowners in the Clear Creek watershed eastern Iowa, offers a situated analysis of relationship between rhetorical change landscape change. After chronicling rise government-sponsored watershed-based agricultural conservation efforts, I adopt Kenneth Burke's framing rhetoric as identification to argue that watershed, it is mobilized contemporary serves potent material symbolic site for identification. Focusing on my ethnographic research consider how farmers' landowners' with has prompted changes sake soil water conservation. then implications this argument extending theories landscape, suggesting landscapes contain elements both material.