Economic ' development ' driven by global economic forces produces specific expressions of ' community ' in places where large new economic projects are to be located. This paper draws on contempora y geopolitical literature to theorise community identity as partly formulated in response to external ' threats ' . A comparative study of community mobilisation in response to proposals to locate coastal superquarries on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, and Cape Breton, Nova Scoria, Canada, suggests the a~~l i c a b i l i t y of this theoretical framework for extending geographical analysis of community identity and the politics of place. Global and local environments As the scope of global economic activity expands to ' master space ' (Agnew and Corbridge 1995), controversies over the impacts of ' development ' projects occur in places once considered beyond the direct reaches of pollution and despoliation. In some cases resistance to environmental destruction, visible in intense siting disputes and the politics of ' Not In My Back Yard ' (NIMBY) in populous regions, indirectly displaces developments into more remote regions, and in particular, into the resource hinterlands of the advanced industrial states. There, in turn, ' developments ' also often encounter opposition phrased in terms of protecting communities from environmentally and culturally threatening ' external ' impositions. Anderson I< and Gale F (eds) (1992) Inveutkng Places: Studies in Cultural Geography (Longman, Melbourne) Barnes T J and Duncan J S (eds) (1992) Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text C5 Metaphor in the Representation of Landscupe (Routledge, London) Battiste Marie (1996) ' Post-colonial Mi'kmaq Language Development Strategies ' in Leger S (ed) Towards a Language Agenda: Futurist Outlook in the United Nations (UniversitC d'Ottawa Centre Canadien des Droits Linguistiques, Ottawa) 467489 (Routledge, London)

Article impact statement Values-based approaches like structured decision making successfully enable participation and inclusive conservation practice.

Empirical data collected from dairy farmers in Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry counties in Eastern Ontario provide the basis for an analysis of the actions of Women for the Survival of Agriculture (WSA), a network of women farmers which emerged in the 1970s in a context of deepening agricultural crisis. Conceptually, I draw on postmodern feminist critiques of Foucault's work to argue that the effectiveness of WSA as a political voice locally, provincially, and federally has depended on the strategic manipulation of two contradictory ideologies. On the one hand, an explicitly feminist discourse created by WSA challenges male hegemony in work and property rights on the farm. On the other, the struggle for equality, for farm partnerships, is grounded in an appeal to the ‘family farm’, a symbol of national security and sovereignty, which in the past has served to perpetuate gender-based hierarchy.

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