{"product_id":"9781611392913","title":"Culture Clash: Environmental Politics in New Mexico Forest Communities","description":"The Culture Clash story begins in the 1970s in the village of Placitas, New Mexico at the north end of the Sandia Mountains, where author Kay Matthews built a house and began a family while involved in disputes with the Forest Service over forest management and with real estate developers bent on gentrification. It then moves to El Valle, a land grant village of 20 families at the base of the Pecos Wilderness, where she and her family moved in the early 1990s seeking a more rural life. Here, during the rest of that decade and into the 2000s, the small villages of el norte were engaged in battles on numerous fronts: protecting the integrity of traditional acequias; guaranteeing the rights of community-based foresters and ranchers to access public lands; addressing the long standing grievances of the loss of land grants; and maintaining the rural nature of communities through appropriate economic development. As a journalist documenting these struggles, and as a norteño living la lucha, Matthews weaves together a personal narrative and political analysis of a complex and dynamic rural New Mexico.","brand":"Sunstone Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129810862320,"sku":"9781611392913","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781611392913_p0.jpg?v=1763838430","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611392913","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}