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Title: Settling the Boom
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil
ISBN-10: 151791387X
EAN: 9781517913878
ISBN: 9781517913878
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 28/02/2023
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Width: 13mm
Item Weight: 227g
Contributor: Bruce Braun (Edited by), Mary E. Thomas (Edited by)
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: Society & Culture
Author: Bruce Braun
Release Year: 2023
Description:

Examines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and narratives order a resource boom

Over the past decade, new oil plays have unsettled U.S. energy landscapes and imaginaries. Settling the Boom studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms.

This collection reveals the results of sustained research in Williston, North Dakota, the epicenter of the “Bakken Boom.” While the boom brought a rapid influx of capital and workers, the book questions simple timelines of before and after. Instead, Settling the Boom demonstrates how the unsettling forces of an oil play resolve through normative narratives and material and affective infrastructures that support settler colonialism’s violent extension and its gendered orders of time and space. Considering a wide range of evidence, from urban and regional policy, interviews with city officials, media, photography, and film, these essays analyze the ongoing material, aesthetic, and narrative ways of life and land in the Bakken.

Contributors: Morgan Adamson, Macalester College; Kai Bosworth, Virginia Commonwealth U; Thomas S. Davis, Ohio State U; Jessica Lehman, Durham U.

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