Anthropocene Drift Reader
Wednesday, September 25
Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (New York: Verso Book, 2019).
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017).
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 3, no. 3 (2014), 1–25.
Harsha Walia, “Land is a Relationship: In conversation with Glen Coulthard on Indigenous nationhood,” Rabble (January 21, 2015), http://rabble.ca/columnists/2015/01/land-relationship-conversation-glen-coulthard-on-indigenous-nationhood.
Mishuana Goeman, “From Place to Territories and Back Again: Centering Storied Land in the discussion of Indigenous Nation-building,” International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies 1, no. 1 (2008).
Jeffrey Ostler, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019).
Curt Meine and Keefe Keeley, editors, The Driftless Reader (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017).
Nancy Langston, “The Wisconsin Experiment,” Places Journal (April 2017), https://placesjournal.org/article/the-wisconsin-experiment/
Thursday, September 26
Marcy West, “Citizen Management in a Contested Landscape,” Edge Effects (December 5, 2017), http://edgeeffects.net/kickapoo-valley-reserve/.
Paul Robbins and Marcy West, “Lessons from the Kickapoo: Radical Conviviality in Community Conservation,” Radical Ecological Democracy (July 30, 2018), http://www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/lessons-from-the-kickapoo-radical-conviviality-in-community-conservation/.
Lynne Heasley, A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005), 129–194.
Beth Rose Middleton, Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011).
Beth Rose Middleton, “A Political Ecology of Healing,” Journal of Political Ecology 17 (2010), 1–27.
Kristin L. Hoganson, “Struggles for Place and Space: Kickapoo Traces from the Midwest to Mexico,” in Transnational Indians in the North American West, edited by Clarissa Confer, Andrae Marak, Laura Tuennerman (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2015), 210–225.
Kristin L. Hoganson, The Heartland: An American History (New York: Penguin Press, 2019).
Patty Loew, “Ho-Chunk”, in Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal, Second Edition (Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2013), 44–58.
Zoltan Grossman, Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017), 116–134.
Friday, September 27
Jennifer Kirsten Stinson, “Becoming Black, White, and Indian in Wisconsin Farm Country, 1850s–1910s,” Middle West Review 2, no. 2 (Spring 2016), 53–84.
Jennifer Kirsten Stinson, “Bondage and resistance in the land of lead: antebellum Upper Mississippi River Valley mineral country landscapes,” Slavery & Abolition 38, no. 1 (2017), 6–22.
Tiffany Lethabo King, The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019).
Lauret Savoy, “Alien/Land/Ethic: The Distance Between” in Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2015), 31–48.
Curt Meine, “The Edge of Anomaly,” in Wildness: Relations of People and Place, edited by Gavin Van Horn and John Hausdoerffer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Curt Meine, “The View from Man Mound,” in The Vanishing Present: Wisconsin’s Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife, edited by Donald M. Waller and Thomas P. Rooney, eds. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 17–30.
Saturday, September 28
“Working Intersectionally to Abolish White Supremacy: An Interview with Aloysha Goldstein,” Blog of the American Philosophical Association (August 6, 2019), https://blog.apaonline.org/2019/08/06/working-intersectionally-to-abolish-white-supremacy-an-interview-with-aloysha-goldstein/.
Alyosha Goldstein, “The Ground Not Given: Colonial Dispositions of Land, Race, and Hunger,” Social Text 36, no. 2 (2018), 83–106.
Michael A. Urban, “An uninhabited waste: transforming the Grand Prairie in nineteenth century Illinois, USA,” Journal of Historical Geography 31 (2005), 647–665. [PDF]
Mark Muller and Richard Levins, “Feeding the World: The Upper Mississippi River Navigation Project,” The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (December 1999). [PDF]
Deborah Fitzgerald, “Agricultural Engineers and Industrialization,” in Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 75–105.
Sunday, September 29
Clint Carroll, Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015).
Clint Carroll, “Native Enclosures: Tribal National Parks and the Progressive Politics of Environmental Stewardship in Indian Country,” Geoforum 53 (2014), 31–40.
Christine Nobiss, “Iowa: Big-Ag’s Sacrifice Zone — An Indigenous Perspective,” A Land Decolonization Project Zine Series by Seeding Sovereignty (September 27, 2018), https://seedingsovereignty.org/resources.
Devon A. Mihesuah and Elizabeth Hoover, editors, Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019).
Manu Karuka, Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019).
Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, editors, Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2019).
Dina Gilio-Whitaker, As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock (Boston: Beacon Press, 2019).
(colonial) Anthropocene
Heather Davis and Zoe Todd, “On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene,” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 16, no. 4 (2017), https://www.acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1539.
Macarena Gómez-Barris, Book review essay — “The Colonial Anthropocene: Damage, Remapping, and Resurgent Resources,” Antipode (March 19, 2019), https://antipodefoundation.org/2019/03/19/the-colonial-anthropocene/.
Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin, The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018).
Anne Spice, “Processing Settler Toxicities: Part I,” Footnotes (June 16, 2018), https://footnotesblog.com/2018/06/16/processing-settler-toxicities-part-i/.
Zoe Todd, “Indigenizing the Anthropocene,” in Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environment and Epistemology, edited by Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin (London: Open Humanities Press, 2015), 241–254.
Kyle Powys Whyte, “Is it Colonial Déjà vu? Indigenous Peoples and Climate Injustice,” in Humanities for the Environment: Integrating Knowledge, Forging New Constellations of Practice, edited by Joni Adamson and Michel Davis (London: Routledge, 2016).
Kyle Powys Whyte, “White Allies, Let’s Be Honest About Decolonization,” Yes! Magazine (April 3, 2018), http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/decolonize/white-allies-lets-be-honest-about-decolonization-20180403.
Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018).
“Reflections on the Plantationocene: A Conversation with Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing,” Edge Effects Magazine (June 18, 2019), https://edgeeffects.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PlantationoceneReflections_Haraway_Tsing.pdf.
