Rebecca Kneale Gould
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Kneale Gould |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca Kneale |
| FAMILY NAME | Gould |
| SIGNATURE | GOULD R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlebury College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Brooks Lamb, ‘Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place’
Brooks Lamb, Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place, The Agrarian Studies Series, James Scott (ed.) (Yale: Yale University Press, 2023), xvii + 263 pp., $20.00 (pbk), ISBN 978-0-300-28010-4
Resource Management: Reassessing the American Environmental Tradition’s Cornerstone Figures: Editors’ Introduction
Since the mid-1990s, the critical turn in environmental thought has highlighted important insights that are still being grappled with today.William Cronon's work is perhaps the best-known example.In his essay 'The Trouble with Wilderness', Cronon critically demonstrated the many ways in which 'wilderness' is not pure or unadulterated or really even that 'wild' in the first place (1995).Instead, it is a term whose conceptual valence only makes sen…
Reading Thoreau in the 21st Century: Whither and Why
This essay offers a critical re-assessment of Henry David Thoreau’s life and legacy in the context of contemporary critiques of the mainstream environmental tradition. It takes seriously concerns raised about Thoreau’s status as a privileged white male, but calls for more nuance. In particular, the essay challenges those portraits of Thoreau that emphasize Thoreau’s status as a devotee of American nature religion to the exclusion of Thoreau’s sig…
Ambiguous Legacies, Contested Futures: Editors’ Introduction
Our exploration of the ambiguous legacies and contested futures of 'environmental classics' began in a deeply contested and uniquely ambiguous time. We found ourselves caught up in the whirlwind of an unforeseen (by us) pandemic, tellingly brought on by the caging and consumption of wild mammals, as well as by decades of anthropogenic impacts on climate and habitat zones. Within the United States, the unequal effects of a global pandemic, togethe…
Amanda Baugh, God and the Green Divide: Religious Environmentalism in Black and White
Amanda Baugh, God and the Green Divide: Religious Environmentalism in Black and White
Modern Homesteading in America: Negotiating Religion, Nature, and Modernity
This article explores the spiritual dimensions of modern back-to-the-land (or homesteading) practices in contemporary American culture. Drawing on historical and ethnographic research, it examines the ways in which nature is sacralised and everyday life is ritualised by those who have chosen to lead lives of partial self-sufficiency in rural locales. Through an examination of oral and literary source material, and several case studies, this study…
Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice
Modern Homesteading in America: Religious Quests and the Restraints of Religion
Cet article examine la vie des homesteaders (c'est-a-dire les personnes qui ont decide sciemment de mener une vie autarcique dans la nature) en Amerique au 20eme siecle. Base sur les donnees d'interview, sur une recherche ethnographique et sur des materiaux historiques, il cherche a examiner les dimensions de la vie religieuse qui sous-tendent la decision de vivre un retour a la nature et les decisions multiples que comprend la pratique du homest…
Modern Homesteading in America: Negotiating Religion, Nature, and Modernity
This article explores the spiritual dimensions of modern back-to-the-land (or homesteading) practices in contemporary American culture. Drawing on historical and ethnographic research, it examines the ways in which nature is sacralised and everyday life is ritualised by those who have chosen to lead lives of partial self-sufficiency in rural locales. Through an examination of oral and literary source material, and several case studies, this study…
Modern Homesteading in America: Religious Quests and the Restraints of Religion
Cet article examine la vie des homesteaders (c'est-a-dire les personnes qui ont decide sciemment de mener une vie autarcique dans la nature) en Amerique au 20eme siecle. Base sur les donnees d'interview, sur une recherche ethnographique et sur des materiaux historiques, il cherche a examiner les dimensions de la vie religieuse qui sous-tendent la decision de vivre un retour a la nature et les decisions multiples que comprend la pratique du homest…
Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice
Modern Homesteading in America: Negotiating Religion, Nature, and Modernity
This article explores the spiritual dimensions of modern back-to-the-land (or homesteading) practices in contemporary American culture. Drawing on historical and ethnographic research, it examines the ways in which nature is sacralised and everyday life is ritualised by those who have chosen to lead lives of partial self-sufficiency in rural locales. Through an examination of oral and literary source material, and several case studies, this study…
Amanda Baugh, God and the Green Divide: Religious Environmentalism in Black and White
Amanda Baugh, God and the Green Divide: Religious Environmentalism in Black and White
Ambiguous Legacies, Contested Futures: Editors’ Introduction
Our exploration of the ambiguous legacies and contested futures of 'environmental classics' began in a deeply contested and uniquely ambiguous time. We found ourselves caught up in the whirlwind of an unforeseen (by us) pandemic, tellingly brought on by the caging and consumption of wild mammals, as well as by decades of anthropogenic impacts on climate and habitat zones. Within the United States, the unequal effects of a global pandemic, togethe…
Resource Management: Reassessing the American Environmental Tradition’s Cornerstone Figures: Editors’ Introduction
Since the mid-1990s, the critical turn in environmental thought has highlighted important insights that are still being grappled with today.William Cronon's work is perhaps the best-known example.In his essay 'The Trouble with Wilderness', Cronon critically demonstrated the many ways in which 'wilderness' is not pure or unadulterated or really even that 'wild' in the first place (1995).Instead, it is a term whose conceptual valence only makes sen…
Reading Thoreau in the 21st Century: Whither and Why
This essay offers a critical re-assessment of Henry David Thoreau’s life and legacy in the context of contemporary critiques of the mainstream environmental tradition. It takes seriously concerns raised about Thoreau’s status as a privileged white male, but calls for more nuance. In particular, the essay challenges those portraits of Thoreau that emphasize Thoreau’s status as a devotee of American nature religion to the exclusion of Thoreau’s sig…
Brooks Lamb, ‘Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place’
Brooks Lamb, Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place, The Agrarian Studies Series, James Scott (ed.) (Yale: Yale University Press, 2023), xvii + 263 pp., $20.00 (pbk), ISBN 978-0-300-28010-4
Political science (6 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · American Literature and Culture (2 works)