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Sellen, Jeffrey J. "The Discourse of Private Property Rights in Contemporary Environmental Politics," Program in American Studies, Washington State University, August 1997.
This study accounts for the effectiveness of the property rights message by analyzing key elements of its discourse. Contemporary property rights discourse is overtly oppositional. By representing environmentalists as others, the discourse provides adherents with the means to construct individual and group identities. Narratives play a central role in the property rights movement, especially as they participate in the myths of nation-building. Narratives based on the myths of classical liberalism, frontier development, and the conservationist construction of nature as resource combine to create a potent argument in favor of the process of privatization and the protection of property rights.
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