The Reference Collection (2019: No Longer Ongoing)

Stripped of all his power and in the face of overwhelming power, this man tries to take his personal power back. Some find this funny. If you’ve ever had zero power while facing overwhelming power–while multiple guns are pointed at you–you might not find this so funny. You might see this differently. https://www.thedailybeast.com/police-chase-ends-in-suspect-breakdancing-at-gunpoint-video

Sometimes, leaving is the only way to take back stolen power: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lawrencehunter/2012/06/03/freedom-to-leave-may-stop-oppressive-government

New Zealand: Sharing access to human well-being is deeply democratic

General: Share Power with Young People

General: Parenting that Shares Power

Healing and Learning from Authoritarian Parenting (parenting that steals power)

One Way to Enforce Power-Sharing: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/discriminating-against-incompetent-men-leaders_n_5c7d5b26e4b0614614dd5efc

Ask The Teachers! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/17/counter-far-right-extremism-germany-uk-teachers?CMP=share_btn_link

Giving the Stolen Power Back: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/01/defend-smacking-children-abuse-power-parents

A New Generational Compact: It’s not either/or, child or adult. It is always already both/and: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/23/old-people-enemies-young-generational-compact

Community Media Shares Power: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/26/670058419/digging-deep-into-local-news-a-small-newspaper-in-rural-oregon-is-thriving

Local Rural Giving Shares Power: https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2018/6/26/myths-and-opportunities-whats-happening-in-rural-philanthropy

A Living Wage Shares Power

AUTHORITARIAN (POWER-STEALING) TOOLS: NRA, MILITIA, & GUNS

Militia Terrorizes Immigrants: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/19/us/border-militia-migrants/index.html

NRA Panicked?: https://www.thedailybeast.com/weve-fought-the-nra-for-decadesweve-never-seen-them-as-panicked-as-they-are-now?ref=home?ref=home?ref=home

NRA Pretends to be Bigger than it is (And it invokes ALL white people’s power if they don’t signal otherwise.)

Bolton’s Cozy Relationship with the NRA: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5ab45053e4b054d118e15380

HUMANS CAPITALISM GROWS

Business People Who Make Subprime Loans to Children

Americans with Years Hoarding Power and Resources: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/america-baby-boomer-old-generation_n_5c82db8de4b0ed0a00136b0c

Americans with Years who Ignore Solutions for Climate Change: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/25/adults-room-climate-change-dianne-feinstein

HUMAN RELATIONS AND CHANGE

Healthy Relational Communication Necessary for Change in Rural Areas, Enabling Conditions: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705816323359

AMAC & AARP NARRATIVES

RURAL OREGON AND JOSEPHINE COUNTY (JOCO)

Joco Clear Cutting

“Josephine County is somewhat unique in Oregon counties in being named for a woman…”

Narrative bites: Gender Justice in Rural Oregon

Northern Josephine County votes against funding law enforcement, primarily in Southern Josephine County

Reducing Josephine County’s Challenges to Econ, again

Another macho “undercover” rural story, Oregon Tale, the Medium Version

2014 Joco: No Tax Dollars, Little Law Enforcement

Our Land, the Patriot Movement, and the Bundys: https://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/this-land-is-our-land-podcast-patriot-movement-family/

Land Use: 7 Differences Between State and Public Lands (from Protect Our Public Lands): https://www.protectourpublicland.org/news-collection/2015/7/28/7-differences-between-state-lands-and-public-lands

Gender Discrimination case in Grants Pass: https://www.opb.org/news/article/appeals-court-sides-with-woman-in-gender-discrimination-case/

State vs. Federal Land Management in the West: https://www.perc.org/2015/03/03/divided-lands-state-vs-federal-management-in-the-west/

THE SEA RANCH/SEA RANCH (Sea Ranch NonHuman Residents Project)

2019-

Sea Ranch Architecture gets an upgrade–no section or discussion of current land or landscape management practices: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/lifestyle/9697675-181/sonoma-countys-sea-ranch-hailed?sba=AAS

Sea Ranch Legacy, Utopia, Architecture–no section or discussion of current land or landscape management practices: https://www.dwell.com/article/sea-ranch-architecture-7f30ea15

Sea Ranch Modernist Utopia, Architecture–no section or discussion of current land or landscape management practices: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/arts/design/sea-ranch-california.html

SFMOMA promo piece–mentions “Environment” in the title, but no section or discussion of current land or landscape management practices: https://www.sfmoma.org/press/release/the-sea-ranch/

Dezeen SFMOMA piece (scroll down to find Eleanor Gibson’s piece). Although the words “environment” and “landscape” appear in the article, no description or discussion of current landscape practices is offered.

Curbed Sea Ranch Oral History, Pt. 1 piece quotes Larry Halprin within a “utopian” narrative history, thereby effectively characterizing his “Live Lightly on the Land” ethic as currently “naive.” No mention of current TSRA landscape management policies or practices in this carefully crafted “complete” history. https://www.curbed.com/2019/2/20/18231590/sea-ranch-northern-california-sonoma-county-coast-history

Curbed Sea Ranch Oral History, Pt. 2 piece quotes Mary Griffin and Lisa Dundee grappling with how to save the human architecture from fire. Missing is any discussion or consideration of a sustainable landscape policy that protects both human and nonhuman habitat in this carefully crafted “complete” history. https://www.curbed.com/2019/2/21/18232116/sea-ranch-coastal-commission-oral-history-legacy

Sea Ranch VIP sales narrative (PDF): http://www.tsra.org/photos/VIPBooklet.pdf

The Sea Ranch Association website narrative–landscape management declared and inferred as “Live Lightly on the Land”: https://www.tsra.org/news.php?viewStory=1790

As The Sea Ranch wiki narrates it, no landscape policies exist beyond no non-native plants and no planting outside fenced courtyards. An incomplete description of grasses management only mentions sheep. Sea Ranch “owners” are free to cut and spray as they see fit. “Larry Halprin” listed under landscape–no further information is provided. (Hard, non-democratic firewall patrolled by Dundee-TSRA. Even with citations and documentation, attempts to add to an incomplete Wiki account–from a current resident of Sea Ranch–was declared “malicious.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Ranch,_California

Pre-2019 narrative

Utopia Rules at Sea Ranch, NYT 2015: One journalist’s experience at the Lodge. No mention of landscape architectural practices

Landscape Architecture Magazine piece that only quotes TSRA literature without any focus, description, or mention of actual landscape architecture or management policies or practices.

Ostensibly about landscape architecture and design, the blog post mentions nothing about those actual policies or practices; simply invokes Halprin.

Curbed article about specific Sea Ranch house. No utopia narrative; no mention of landscape management policies or practices. https://www.curbed.com/2018/4/9/17192240/sea-ranch-california-home-tour-framestudio

All of The Sea Ranch Association rules. All related to architecture, building, maintenance. etc. No articulation of a functional, sustainable landscape management policy or practice. http://www.tsra.org/photos/TSRA_Rules.pdf

THE SPECTACLE: THE 45^th

The 45th Grabs for Control of the U.S. Military

The Democracy is Stronger than the 45th: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/opinion/michael-cohen-trump.html

The 45th’s 2nd Amendment People: https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/08/09/clinton-trump-s-second-amendment-people-remark-dangerous

The Women who Support the 45th: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/10/women-for-trump-michigan-supporters-grassroots-organizing?CMP=share_btn_link

“The Reference Collection” at The Center for U.S. Rural Cultures Studies is an ongoing project aimed at gathering current, living examples in categories relevant for the Center’s work.

The compilation process is currently underway. What is listed here is always already partial, curated, and edited. Relevant, vetted contributions are gratefully accepted and included.

“The Reference Collection” at The Center for U.S. Rural Cultures Studies is an ongoing project aimed at gathering current, living examples organized into categories relevant for the Center’s work.

The compilation and organization process is currently underway. What is listed here is always already partial, curated, and edited. Relevant, vetted contributions are gratefully accepted and included.

RURAL SPECIFICS

AUTHORITARIANISM (POWER-STEALING & HOARDING)

MODES OF AUTHORITARIANISM: WHITE SUPREMACY & WHITE NATIONALISM

AUTHORITARIAN STANDARDS: WHITENESS & TOXIC MASCULINITY

MODES OF DEMOCRACY (POWER-SHARING)