Recreational colonialism and the rhetorical landscapes of the outdoors / Kyle Boggs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boggs, Kyle, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Settler colonialism--Social aspects--West (U.S.).

Settler colonialism.

Indians of North America--Recreation--West (U.S.).

Indians of North America.

Indigenous peoples--Recreation--West (U.S.).

Indigenous peoples.

Outdoor recreation--West (U.S.).

Outdoor recreation.

Cultural property--Protection--West (U.S.).

Cultural property.

Environmental justice--West (U.S.).

Environmental justice.

Rhetoric--Social aspects.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Other Title:

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"In Recreational Colonialism and the Rhetorical Landscapes of the Outdoors, Kyle Boggs chronicles the struggle between Indigenous peoples who have rooted religious and cultural ties to outdoor sites across the US and elsewhere and the settlers who claim the right to freely recreate in those same places. Synthesizing theories of rhetoric, environmental studies, and settler colonialism, Boggs confronts the ways that settler colonial experiences and expectations have been narrated through rhetorical practices on these so-called public lands. Fusing journalism and personal narrative with scholarly research, Boggs’s argument comes to bear on his central case study of a northern Arizona ski development on a mountain held sacred by at least thirteen Indigenous tribes. In illuminating the striking ways that settler imaginaries are accommodated, performed, and sustained in the everyday, Boggs offers a powerful reminder that even during leisure activities (in this case, sports such as ultrarunning, rock climbing, and skiing), complex webs of power control who can access resources and land and who has the right to protect histories and cultures."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The peaks are everywhere

Settler rhetorics of "the outdoors"

Bikepacking : rhetorical landscapes and settler placemaking

Rock climbing : frontier authenticity, whiteness, and "desert pioneers"

Ultrarunning : settler imaginaries and the born to run effect

The ski resort : (re)creating space and selling recreational colonialism

"No desecration for recreation! save the peaks!"

The pipeline as a site of Indigenous resistance and solidarity

Community listening, relationality, and the public art of the peaks

Coda: Becoming complicit.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on June 11, 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8142-8439-6

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.