Kosek Understories

The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8830-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

A lively, engaging ethnography that demonstrates how a volatile politics of race, class, and nation animates the infamously violent struggles over forests in the U.S. Southwest.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kosek, Jake

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction 1

1. The Cultural Politics of Memory and Longing 30

2. Sovereign Natures 62

3. Passionate Attachments and the Nature of Belonging 103

4. Racial Degradation and Environmental Anxieties 142

5. “Smokey Bear is a White Racist Pig” 183

6. Nuclear Natures: In the Shadows of the City on a Hill 228

Conclusion: On Piñon and Politics 276

Notes 289

Works Cited 345

Index 371

Über Autor(innen)

Jake Kosek is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He is a coeditor of Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference, also published by Duke University Press.