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Settling the Boom - The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil (Hardcover)
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Settling the Boom - The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil (Hardcover)
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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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