While recent scholarship on rural politics in the United States has focused almost exclusively on right-wing populism, capital's power over the land has also spurred nonpartisan resistance. Financialization of forestland ownership in the United States has diversified how companies profit from the land, whether through carbon sequestration, conservation easements, wind tower leases, or mechanized logging. These new sources of profit, though, create fewer jobs than the traditional woods products industries. Based on more than a year of ethnographic research in a forested region of northern New England, I describe an anti-establishment politics spurred by opposition to one of these development projects, an electrical transmission corridor proposed by an international energy company. I argue that the resistance to this project is a response to ‘behind closed doors’ negotiations and the accumulation of power in the hands of a small number of energy companies, timberland owners, politicians, government agencies and environmental NGOs. Scholarship on the resistance to neoliberalism's effects on the rural United States should thus not be limited to a left/right populism framework.

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谈判诺斯伍兹：美国东北部的反建制农村政治

尽管最近关于美国农村政治的学术研究几乎完全集中在右翼民粹主义上，但资本对土地的权力也激起了无党派的抵抗。美国林地所有权的金融化使公司从土地中获利的方式多样化，无论是通过碳封存、保护地役权、风塔租赁还是机械化采伐。然而，这些新的利润来源创造的就业机会少于传统的木制品行业。基于在新英格兰北部森林地区一年多的人种学研究，我描述了因反对其中一个开发项目（一家国际能源公司提议的输电走廊）而引发的反建制政治。我认为，对该项目的抵制是对“闭门”谈判以及少数能源公司、林地所有者、政治家、政府机构和环保非政府组织手中权力积累的回应。因此，关于抵制新自由主义对美国农村影响的学术研究不应局限于左/右民粹主义框架。