{"product_id":"culture-clash-9781632930057","title":"Culture Clash","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. * * * Kay Matthews is a freelance journalist and editor of \"La Jicarita,\" an online journal of environmental politics. She and her partner Mark Schiller started \"La Jicarita\" in 1996 as the print newspaper of a watershed watchdog group. The paper soon expanded to investigate environmental and social justice issues all over northern New Mexico. She lives on a farm in El Valle where she raised two children, grows fruit, vegetables, and pasture hay, and served as an acequia commissioner for many years.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sunstone Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52158577082642,"sku":"9781632930057","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a1553339-c4f8-4ee0-92c4-e1a44b84554e.jpg?v=1774966556","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/culture-clash-9781632930057","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}