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Land, God, and Guns : Settler Colonialism and Masculinity in the American Heartland by Levi Gahman (2020, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherZED Books, The Limited
ISBN-101786996359
ISBN-139781786996350
eBay Product ID (ePID)4038537952
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Number of Pages336 Pages
Publication NameLand, God, and Guns : Settler Colonialism and Masculinity in the American Heartland
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
SubjectDiscrimination & Race Relations, Human Geography, Gender Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Higher, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism, Sociology / Rural
TypeTextbook
AuthorLevi Gahman
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Education
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12.5 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.2 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Reviews' A unique view into the lives and struggles of working class white men in the Heartland of the United States. Drawing on critical geography and postcolonial theory, it reveals mundane forms of violence central to settler colonialism that stabilize a region and people typically mythologized in the contemporary political landscape.' Jeffrey Montez de Oca, University of Colorado 'A compassionate dialogue with men in the Americanheartland, this is a book that links place, history, storied narratives, and impassioned sense of identity to deeply felt and emotionally complexconvictions about whiteness, gun ownership, masculinity, home,heteronormativity, and family. This is a book that needs reading in theseurgent and polarizing times.' Sarah de Leeuw, University of Northern British Columbia, 'Land, God, and Guns providesa unique view into the lives and struggles of working class white men in theHeartland of the United States. Drawing on critical geography and postcolonialtheory, it reveals mundane forms of violence central to settler colonialismthat stabilize a region and people typically mythologized in the contemporarypolitical landscape.' Jeffrey Montez de Oca, University of Colorado Colorado, A compassionate dialogue with men in the American heartland, this is a book that needs reading in these urgent and polarizing times., i>'A unique view into the lives and struggles of working class white men in the Heartland of the United States. Drawing on critical geography and postcolonial theory, it reveals mundane forms of violence central to settler colonialism that stabilize a region and people typically mythologized in the contemporary political landscape., Land, God, and Guns providesa unique view into the lives and struggles of working class white men in theHeartland of the United States. Drawing on critical geography and postcolonialtheory, it reveals mundane forms of violence central to settler colonialismthat stabilize a region and people typically mythologized in the contemporarypolitical landscape Jeffrey Montez de Oca, University of Colorado Colorado, ' A unique view into the lives and struggles of working class white men in theHeartland of the United States. Drawing on critical geography and postcolonialtheory, it reveals mundane forms of violence central to settler colonialismthat stabilize a region and people typically mythologized in the contemporarypolitical landscape.' Jeffrey Montez de Oca, University of Colorado Colorado, "i>'A unique view into the lives and struggles of working class white men in the Heartland of the United States. Drawing on critical geography and postcolonial theory, it reveals mundane forms of violence central to settler colonialism that stabilize a region and people typically mythologized in the contemporary political landscape." -- Jeffrey Montez de Oca, University of Colorado "A compassionate dialogue with men in the American heartland, this is a book that needs reading in these urgent and polarizing times." -- Sarah de Leeuw, University of Northern British Columbia
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal305.56208909
Table Of Content1. There's No Place Like Home 2. Settler Colonialism, Empire, Borders 3. Masculinity, Place, Intersectionality 4. Kansas, Bled: Land, History, Violence 5. Frontier, Family, Nation 6. Capitalism, Work, Respect 7. Looking Back, Going Forward
SynopsisThis book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowess that are currently being flexed on the global stage. Through a fascinating combination of ethnographic research across seven US states and the application of postcolonial, anti-racist, feminist and poststructuralist theories, Land, God, and Guns reveals how time-honoured rites of passage associated with taken-for-granted notions of manhood in the American Heartland are constitutive of a constellation of colonial worldviews, capitalist logics, gender essentialisms, ethnocentric religious beliefs, jingoistic populism, racial animus, and embodied violence. A constellation that, within the US, upholds a heteropatriarchal and racist ordering of life that both privileges and ultimately damages its main proliferators - white settler men. This is a detailed work that at once unravels rural white settler masculinity and the US state at their roots, whilst demonstrating why any analysis of the cultural production and social practice of masculinity in the United States must take into account the country's historical trajectories of imperialism, land dispossession, nation-state building, enslavement, extractive accumulation and valorisation of masculinist assertions of dominance., How rationalities and rites of passage associated with manhood in the white American Heartland are constitutive of racist and heteropatriarchal violence, This book is an antidote to the formsof American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowessthat are currently being flexed on the global stage. Through a fascinating combination of ethnographic researchacross seven US states and the application of postcolonial, anti-racist,feminist and poststructuralist theories, Land, God, and Guns revealshow time-honoured rites of passage associated with taken-for-granted notions ofmanhood in the American Heartland are constitutive of a constellation ofcolonial worldviews, capitalist logics, gender essentialisms, ethnocentricreligious beliefs, jingoistic populism, racial animus, and embodied violence. A constellation that, within the US, upholds a heteropatriarchaland racist ordering of life that both privileges and ultimately damages itsmain proliferators - white settler men. This is a detailed work that at once unravels rural whitesettler masculinity and the US state at their roots, whilst demonstrating whyany analysis of the cultural production and social practice of masculinity inthe United States must take into account the country's historical trajectoriesof imperialism, land dispossession, nation-state building, enslavement,extractive accumulation and valorisation of masculinist assertions ofdominance.
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