Violent Inheritance

Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West

E Cram (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

292 Seiten

2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-37946-6 (ISBN)

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Violent Inheritance deepens the analysis of settler colonialism's endurance in the North American West and how infrastructures that ground sexual modernity are both reproduced and challenged by publics who have inherited them. E Cram redefines sexual modernity through extractivism, wherein sexuality functions to extract value from life including land, air, minerals, and bodies. Analyzing struggles over memory cultures through the region's land use controversies at the turn of and well into the twentieth century, Cram unpacks the consequences of western settlement and the energy regimes that fueled it. Transfusing queer eco-criticism with archival and ethnographic research, Cram reconstructs the linkages—"land lines"—between infrastructure, violence, sexuality, and energy and shows how racialized sexual knowledges cultivated settler colonial cultures of both innervation and enervation. From the residential school system to elite health seekers desiring the "electric" climates of the Rocky Mountains to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, Cram demonstrates how the environment promised to some individuals access to vital energy and to others the exhaustion of populations through state violence and racial capitalism. Grappling with these land lines, Cram insists, helps interrogate regimes of value and build otherwise unrealized connections between queer studies and the environmental and energy humanities.

E Cram is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa and associate editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication.

Contents

List of Figures
Preface: Rooted Kinship
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Land Lines of Violent Inheritance

1. Cartographies of Sexual Modernity
2. Settler Intimacies and the Social Life of the Archive
3. Childhood and Settler Aesthetics of Violence
4. Affected Persons, Sexual Transits, and Contested Public Memories
5. Petroculture and Intimate Atmospheres

Conclusion: Infrastructures of Feeling and Queer
Collaborative Stewardship

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.06.2022
Reihe/Serie	Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture ; 3
Zusatzinfo	19 b-w photographs
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-520-37946-2 / 0520379462
ISBN-13	978-0-520-37946-6 / 9780520379466
Zustand	Neuware