Historians of wilderness have shown that nature reserves are used
ideologically in the construction of American national identity.
But the contemporary problem of wilderness demands examination of
how profoundly nature-in-reserve influences something more
fundamental, namely what counts as being well, having a life, and
having a future. What is wellness for the citizens to whom the
parks are said to democratically belong? And how does the presence
of foreigners threaten this wellness? Recent critiques of the
Wilderness Act focus exclusively on its ecological effects,
ignoring the extent to which wilderness policy affects our
contemporary collective experience and political imagination.
Tracing the challenges that migration and indigenousness currently
pose to the national park system and the Wilderness Act, Grebowicz
foregrounds concerns with social justice against the ecological and
aesthetic ones that have created and continue to shape these
environments. With photographs by Jacqueline Schlossman.
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