Understories The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico

Name: Understories The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico
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ISBN: 9780822338475

ISBN-10: 0822338475

ISBN-13: 9780822338475

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jake Kosek

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Through lively, engaging narrative, "Understories" demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent struggles over forests in the southwestern United States. Rather than reproduce traditional understandings of nature and environment, Jake Kosek shifts the focus toward material and symbolic "natures," seemingly unchangeable essences central to formations of race, class, and nation that are being remade not just through conflicts over resources but also through everyday practices by Chicano activists, white environmentalists, and state officials as well as nuclear scientists, heroin addicts, and health workers. Drawing on two years of ethnographic…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 12/8/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.53" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Cultural Politics of Memory and Longing



Sovereign Natures



Passionate Attachments and the Nature of Belonging



Racial Degradation and Environmental Anxieties



"Smokey Bear Is a White Racist Pig"



Nuclear Natures: In the Shadows of the City on the Hill


Conclusion: On Pinon and Politics


Notes


Works Cited


Index