California futures : haunted ecologies, decolonial relations / Daniel Lanza Rivers

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rivers, Daniel Lanza, 1985- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--California.

Indians of North America.

Queer theory--California.

Queer theory.

Urban ecology (Sociology)--California.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Human-animal relationships--California.

Human-animal relationships.

Capitalism--Social aspects--California.

Capitalism.

Settler colonialism--California.

Settler colonialism.

California--History.

California.

California--Civilization.

Capitalism--Social aspects.

Civilization.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2026

Summary:

"California Futures is a critical study of California as a site of colonial, decolonial, and liberatory dreaming, taking up the history, politics, and afterlives of the region's colonial imaginings as well as archives of resistance and world-making that strive toward Indigenous, decolonial, Black, queer, feminist, and anti-white supremacist futures. Attending carefully to the colonial, commercial, and environmental entanglements of the region, Daniel Lanza Rivers offers a picture of the processes of speculation that brought California into being. They look to a range of cases and archives, such as the eradication of the Grizzly bear, which remains a symbol of California's "naturalness"; industrial agriculture, environmental toxicity, and real estate speculation in California's Central Valley; Black Bear Ranch, one of California's longest lasting wilderness communes; and the policing of unhoused people around Oakland's Lake Merritt. Through these case studies, Rivers interrogates the long histories of settler conquest, extractive and racial capitalism, and heteropatriarchy that have shaped California"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction. Speculative ecologies, anticolonial worlds

Haunted domesticities, California natures

Grizzly country : Ghost species, reintroduction, and the naturecultures of conquest

“The fecund valley” : Speculative ecologies of drought and extraction

“Our homes are no longer our homes” : Toxic trespass and farmworker futures in the San Joaquin Valley

Radical relations, decolonial futures

Kinship parables : Unsettling Black, feminist, and queer futurity in the Klamath Mountains

“Recovery” : Indigenous futures and dam removal on the Klamath watershed

Life outside, the municipal outdoors

Oaklandish : Encampment and speculation in the municipal outdoors

Conclusion. Walking : Lake Merritt revisited

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Duke University Press, viewed August 27, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Rivers, Daniel Lanza, 1985- California futures

ISBN:

9781478062561

1478062568

OCLC:

1601608806

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license