$56.49
Author: Cram
Edition: First
Number Of Pages: 292
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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.
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“E Cram grapples with the violent inheritance of settler cultures in the US West with unflinching honesty and attunement to the regenerative possibilities lived by queer decolonial thinkers. Cram’s searching, often intimate Violent Inheritance reaches for worlds beyond petromodernity, futures that even now struggle to emerge through messy, fierce solidarities.”—Stephanie LeMenager, Moore Endowed Professor of English and Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
“More than any other book I have encountered,Violent Inheritance persuasively reckons sexual modernity as an ecological formation, one jaggedly woven through the capitalist extractions and settler dispossessions that mold bodies and landscapes alike in the American West. The book’s intellectual wager is vast. Without this book, I do not think you can fully understand the sexual politics of energy, or the environmental politics of sexuality, and that makes Violent Inheritance a bracing, powerful, and essential achievement.”—Gabriel N. Rosenberg, author of The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural America
“Few books give me pause as this one has. What, I wonder, does it mean to trace the racialized and colonial land lines of sexual modernity across all landscapes? How might we theorize extractivism with and against vitality in all modes of energy? These are the questions and directions that emerge across this historic, archival, and deeply personal book. It is a must-read for those immersed in rhetorical, environmental, queer, and critical race projects.”—Lisa A. Flores, author of Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the “Illegal” Immigrant
“Cram’s extraordinary achievement in Violent Inheritance is nothing short of a remapping of the North American West through a brilliantly incisive and beautifully written engagement with environment, region, sexuality, race, and memory. Bringing together energy studies and queer studies through innovative critique and imaginative archival labor, Cram traces the land lines of violence and vitality in shaping modern sexuality, causing a transformation in how one thinks about cultural bequeathment and its consequences. This book is a decolonial and queer tour de force. Like encountering Big Sky for the first time, you will never see or remember the same way again.”—Charles E. Morris III, coeditor of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking
“This compelling and original book brings the energy humanities into dialogue with queer studies, crafti
Release Date: 24-05-2022
Package Dimensions: 20x228x399
