The national park to come / Margret Grebowicz ; with photographs by Jacqueline Schlossman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grebowicz, Margret, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National parks and reserves--Political aspects--United States.

National parks and reserves.

Big Bend National Park (Tex.)--Political aspects.

Big Bend National Park (Tex.).

Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.)--Political aspects.

Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (104 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Historians of wilderness have shown that nature reserves are used ideologically in the construction of American national identity. But the contemporary problem of wilderness demands examination of how profoundly nature-in-reserve influences something more fundamental, namely what counts as being well, having a life, and having a future. What is wellness for the citizens to whom the parks are said to democratically belong? And how does the presence of foreigners threaten this wellness? Recent critiques of the Wilderness Act focus exclusively on its ecological effects, ignoring the extent to which wilderness policy affects our contemporary collective experience and political imagination. Tracing the challenges that migration and indigenousness currently pose to the national park system and the Wilderness Act, Grebowicz foregrounds concerns with social justice against the ecological and aesthetic ones that have created and continue to shape these environments. With photographs by Jacqueline Schlossman.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Inside National Parks

1. How Wilderness Naturalizes Democracy

2. The Scene of Nature and Environmental Justice

3. Wilderness and the Promise of Wellness

Conclusion: This Is Not America

Notes

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804793421

0804793425

OCLC:

1198929691