Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West

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Emerson Cram

Violent Inheritance

Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West

Emerson Cram

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University of California Press
24 May 2022

Communication studies; Gender studies, gender groups; Conservation of the environment

Series: Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture

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 war-time 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.

By: Emerson Cram
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 3
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780520379466
ISBN 10: 0520379462
Series: Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture
Pages: 292
Publication Date: 24 May 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emerson Cram is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa and associate editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication.

Reviews for Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West

""This inclusion of energy in telling the story of sexual modernity and the framework of land lines will be of value to scholars in queer studies, energy and environmental humanities, and studies of the North American West."" * Western American Literature * ""Overall, Violent Inheritance is a compelling case that is methodologically rich and draws from interdisciplinary works to theorize sexual modernity as a sector of biopower and biopolitics."" * International Journal of Communication * ""Overall, Violent Inheritance is a compelling case that is methodologically rich and draws from interdisciplinary works to theorize sexual modernity as a sector of biopower and biopolitics."" * International Journal of Communication *