Dust Bowls of Empire : Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of "Green" Capitalism / Hannah Holleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holleman, Hannah, Author.

Series:

Yale agrarian studies series.

Yale scholarship online.

Yale Agrarian Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.

Soil erosion--High Plains (U.S.).

Soil erosion.

Agriculture--Environmental aspects--High Plains (U.S.).

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--High Plains (U.S.).

Agriculture--Social aspects--High Plains (U.S.).

Soil conservation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A profound reinterpretation of both the Dust Bowl on the U.S. southern plains and its relevance for today The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the U.S. southern plains. Known as the Dust Bowl, this crisis has become a major referent of the climate change era, and has long served as a warning of the dire consequences of unchecked environmental despoliation. Through innovative research and a fresh theoretical lens, Hannah Holleman reexamines the global socioecological and economic forces of settler colonialism and imperialism precipitating this disaster, explaining critical antecedents to the acceleration of ecological degradation in our time. Holleman draws lessons from this period that point a way forward for environmental politics as we confront the growing global crises of climate change, freshwater scarcity, extreme energy, and soil degradation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

One. Dust to Dust: An Age Beyond Extremes

Two. THE FIRST GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM

Three. IMPERIALISM, WHITE SETTLER COLONIALISM, AND THE ECOLOGICAL RIFT

Four. THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN, SOIL EROSION, AND THE ORIGINS OF GREEN CAPITALISM

Five. ECOLOGICAL RIFTS AND SHIFTS: THE ACCUMULATION OF CATASTROPHE

Six. "WE'RE NOT STAKEHOLDERS": BEYOND THE LANGUE DE COTON OF CAPITALIST ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Seven. NO EMPIRES, NO DUST BOWLS: TOWARD A DEEPER ECOLOGICAL SOLIDARITY

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300240887

0300240880

OCLC:

1083588266