Violent Inheritance : Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cram, E.

Series:

Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture

Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture ; v.3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonists--Sexual behavior--Rocky Mountains.

Colonists.

Landscape archaeology.

Queer theory--Rocky Mountains.

Queer theory.

Sex--Rocky Mountains--Environmental aspects.

Sex.

Sexual minority community--Rocky Mountains.

Sexual minority community.

Violence--Environmental aspects--Rocky Mountains.

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Preface: Rooted Kinship

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Land Lines of Violent Inheritance

Chapter 1 Cartographies of Sexual Modernity

Chapter 2 Settler Intimacies and the Social Life of the Archive

Chapter 3 Childhood and Settler Aesthetics of Violence

Chapter 4 Affected Persons, Sexual Transits, and Contested Public Memories

Chapter 5 Petroculture and Intimate Atmospheres

Conclusion: Infrastructures of Feeling and Queer Collaborative Stewardship

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Cram, E. Violent Inheritance

ISBN:

9780520976757

0520976754

OCLC:

1334344915