For the Sake of the Deer
Land, Local Government and the Hunt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3951258 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Cooper (0000-0002-1175-433X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 668-689 |
| Publication date | 1997-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-954x.00082 |
| OpenAlex | W1995999073 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 42 |
Political activism by local government is a well known phenomenon in Britain. Less known are the interests affected. In this study, Somerset council's decision to ban hunting clashed with the long standing activities of the Quantock Staghounds. My discussion focuses on the conflict between hunt and council as a conflict of governance in which land rights provided both terrain and techniques of struggle. For the hunt, land rights functioned as a foundational basis for the hunt's authority and legitimacy. For Somerset, their decision to attack hunting through land ownership not only reveals the complex relationship between land and rural state governance, but also placed Somerset's own authority in jeopardy as the courts declared they could not ban hunting on moral grounds. Somerset's land rights were construed by the courts as dependent on pursuing management objectives. Similarly, the hunt's political credibility was also dependent on demonstrating their role in deer management. The paper concludes with the problems of discursively fusing management and governance
Corporate governance · Credibility · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Legitimacy · Management · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Law · Public Administration · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Hunters and Poachers
Councils in Conflict
Takings
Governing out of order
Constructing the Countryside
Economies of Signs and Space
The Subject and Power
Fiduciary Government
To Take Him 'At His Word
Seven steps to market — the development of the market-led approach to countryside conservation and recreation
Shooting a line’
Regulating the new rural spaces
The politics of local socialism
Law, Ideologies, and the Political-Administrative System
Leisure landscapes
The paradox of parks
Governing Troubles
Going Wild
Out of Place in the Country
The Rural Restructuring Process
Nature versus the state? Markets, states, and environmental protection
The Permanent Crisis of a Divided Mankind
Hunting as a Political Issue
The state and the nation
The Agricultural Argument and Original Appropriation
Rural Resource Management
Thinking global, acting local? British local authorities and their environmental plans
Whigs and Deer-Stealers in Other Guises
Countryside Recreation in a Changing Society
Hunting the wild red deer
Whigs and Hunters
Property, Paternalism and Power
Territory Contested Through Property in a Midwestern Post-Agricultural Community1
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2002 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |