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Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico

Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico

Kosek, Jake

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Series: John Hope Franklin Center Book

General Political ScienceLatino StudiesLawns, Trees, & Shrubs

ISBN10: 0822338475
ISBN13: 9780822338475
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Dec 8 2006
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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 fieldwork and extensive archival research, he shows how these contentious natures are integral both to environmental politics and the formation of racialized citizens, politicized landscapes, and modern regimes of rule.

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