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BOOKSUnderstories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico. Jake Kosek. Duke University Press. 2006. |
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"In this stunning account of the forest wars of New Mexico, Jake Kosek forces us to reconsider the underlying racial politics of the environmental movement's self-righteous claims to 'stewardship' over the natural resources that sustain indigenous communities. If you want to understand the deep roots of the rising anger, not just of the Hispanos in the Espanola Valley, but of marginalized blue-collar people everywhere in the West, this powerful and honest book, with its unique synthesis of
theory and passion, is the place to begin." Mike Davis, Planet of Slums and Buda's Wagon.
"Understories is a critically important book. Jake Kosek's arguments are original, necessary, and rarely heard; his deep tying together of race and nature is almost entirely absent from the current scholarly literature." Hugh Raffles, In Amazonia: A Natural History "This theoretically and methodologically innovative study of how environmental politics shape and are shaped by race, class, and nationalism in the Southwest will make an important contribution to environmental anthropology and history as well as to border studies for years to come. An exciting book, it is also highly readable and can be used in advanced undergraduate as well as graduate level courses." Ana Maria Alonso, Thread of Blood: Colonialism, Revolution, and Gender on Mexico's Northern Frontier Winner of the John Hope Franklin Book Award for the best book in American Studies awarded fall 2007 |
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Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference. Donald S. Moore, Jake Kosek, Anand Pandian, editors. Duke University Press. 2006. |
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Contributors include: Bruce Braun, Giovanna Di Chiro, Paul Gilroy, Steven Gregory, Donna Haraway, Jake Kosek, Tania Murray Li, Uli Linke, Zine Magubane, Donald S. Moore, Diane Nelson, Anand Pandian, Alcida Rita Ramos, Keith Wailoo, Robyn Wiegman
"This is a pathbreaking volume on the cultural politics of race, nature, and power. A range of innovative contributions address the most pressing questions regarding the mutually mediating 'traffic' between the terms of nature, culture and race. This book now sets the standard in thinking critically– that is, politically– about the racial cultures of nature, difference, and distinction." David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State "A stunning and original collection. As far as the essays here excavate the many valences of 'race' and 'nature' and the 'racisms' and 'naturalisms' that operate and mobilize them, they are cautiously hopeful , and write eloquently against the reproduction and government of life through these exclusive terms." Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics |
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SELECTED ARTICLESKeywords: Race, Racism, Environmental Justice, Environmentalism, and The Environmental Movement, in The Dictionary of Human Geography. Edited by Ron Johnston, Derek Gregory, Geraldine Pratt and Michael Watts, forthcoming 2007. "Intimate Geographies: From Bedroom Barrios to Atomic Suburbs." Antipode, forthcoming. "Hauntings: The Nature and Politics of Mutilated Cows and Radioactive Waste." Under review. "Deep Roots and Long Shadows: The Cultural Politics of Memory and Longing in Northern New Mexico." Society and Space, Fall 2004. "Purity and Pollution: Racial Degradation and Environmental Anxieties." Accepted for publication in Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements, edited by Richard Peet and Michael Watts. London: Routledge. 2004. "The Cultural Politics of Race and Nature." Donald S. Moore, Anand S. Pandian, and Jake Kosek. In Donald S. Moore, Jake Kosek, and Anand S. Pandian, eds. Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press 2003. "Collaborative Stewardship: Conflicts and Consensus in Forest Disputes." The Quivira Coalition Report vol. 4, no. 3 (July). 2001. "Plan de Uso Turistico Y Recreativo del Parque National Huascaran" Embajada Real de Los Paîses Bajos y Instituto Nacional de Recursos Naturales. 2000. "The Cultural Politics of Community Mapping." Common Property Research Digest, no. 45 (May). 1998. "Ethics, Economics, and Ecosystems." Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 17 (Spring). 1993. "Deforestation, Unemployment and Land Claims on Vancouver Island." Cultural Survival Action Alert (Spring). 1993. "Ecotourism and Sustainable Development Reconsidered." Co-written with Professor Katrina Brandon for Bellagio Conference on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development. Published as working paper by the Rockefeller Foundation. 1993. "Rethinking Conservation: Human Rights and Natural Resources." Working paper for the Thomas J. Watson Foundation (Fall). 1992.
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