id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 2j62s46719n Justin Farrell The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict 2014 .txt text/plain 521 16 34 Put more specifically, I argue that any sociological account of this conflict should be built upon a more empirically accurate and philosophically sophisticated model of human persons and cultures, that does not presuppose narrow or deterministic motivational frameworks, but understands that the why, in the end, is a question of morality - perhaps even spirituality - stemming from our lived experiences as part of human cultures, shaped by narratives and moral orders that tell us most fundamentally who we are, why we are, what we should do, and why it all matters. Accordingly, management decisions in the GYE rely on a hyper-rationalized form of governance that privileges technical facts, scientific analysis of nature, bureaucratic administration, and legal formalism. cache/2j62s46719n.txt txt/2j62s46719n.txt