Contents -- Preface - Virginia D. Nazarea -- Conservation beyond Design: An Introduction - Virginia D. Nazarea and Robert E. Rhoades -- I. Marginality and Memory in Place-Based Conservation -- 1. Temptation to Hope: From the "Idea" to the Milieu of Biodiversity - Virginia D. Nazarea -- 2. Apples of Their Eyes: Memory Keepers of the American South - Susannah Chapman and Tom Brown -- 3. Food from the Ancestors: Documentation, Conservation, and Revival of Eastern Cherokee Heirloom Plants - James R. Veteto and Kevin Welch -- 4. Sense of Place and Indigenous People's Biodiversity Conservation in the Americas - Tirso Gonzales -- 5. Saving Our Seeds: An Indigenous Perspective from Cotacachi, Ecuador - Magdalena Fueres, Rodrigo Flores, and Rosita Ramos -- 6. People, Place, and Plants in the Pacific Coast of Colombia - Juana Camacho -- II. Agency and Reterritorialization in the Context of Globalization -- 7. Maya Mother Seeds in Resistance of Highland Chiapas in Defense of Native Corn - Peter Brown -- 8. Preserving Soybean Diversity in Japan - Richard Moore -- 9. Complementarity and Conflict: In Situ and Ex Situ Approaches to Conserving Plant Genetic Resources - Cary Fowler -- 10. Situated Meanings of Key Concepts in the Regulation of Plant Genetic Resources - Kristine Skarbø -- 11. Exile Landscapes of Nostalgia and Hope in the Cuban Diaspora - Jenna E. Andrews-Swann -- 12. When Seeds Are Scarce: Globalization and the Response of Three Cultures - Robert E. Rhoades -- Contributors -- Index.