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Auteur(s) : Voyles, Traci Brynne (1981-....)
Titre(s) : The settler sea [Texte imprimé] : California's Salton Sea and the consequences of colonialism / Traci Brynne Voyles
Publication : Lincoln (Neb.) : University of Nebraska Press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-361 p.) : ill., cartes ; 24 cm
Collection : Many wests
Lien à la collection : Many Wests
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. p. 271-322. Bibliogr. p. 323-349. Index
""The Settler Sea" is an environmental history of southern California's Salton Sea,
the state's largest inland body of water, and the complex politics of environmental
and human health in the West" ; "Can a sea be a settler? What if it is a sea that
exists only in the form of incongruous, head-scratching contradictions: a wetland
in a desert, a wildlife refuge that poisons birds, a body of water in which fish suffocate?
Traci Brynne Voyles's history of the Salton Sea examines how settler colonialism restructures
physical environments in ways that further Indigenous dispossession, racial capitalism,
and degradation of the natural world. In other words, The Settler Sea asks how settler
colonialism entraps nature to do settlers' work for them. The Salton Sea, Southern
California's largest inland body of water, occupies the space between the lush agricultural
farmland of the Imperial Valley and the austere desert called "America's Sahara."
The sea sits near the boundary between the United States and Mexico and lies at the
often-contested intersections of the sovereign lands of the Torres Martinez Desert
Cahuilla and the state of California. Created in 1905, when overflow from the Colorado
River combined with a poorly constructed irrigation system to cause the whole river
to flow into the desert, this human-maintained body of water has been considered a
looming environmental disaster. The Salton Sea's very precariousness-the way it sits
uncomfortably between worlds, existing always in the interstices of human and natural
influences, between desert and wetland, between the skyward pull of the sun and the
constant inflow of polluted water-is both a symptom and symbol of the larger precariousness
of settler relationships to the environment, in the West and beyond. Voyles provides
an innovative exploration of the Salton Sea, looking to the ways the sea, its origins,
and its role in human life have been vital to the people who call this region home.
"
Sujet(s) : Environnement -- Salton Sea (Calif., États-Unis)
Écologie -- Salton Sea (Calif., États-Unis)
Écosystèmes -- Salton Sea (Calif., États-Unis)
Indice(s) Dewey :
304.209 79499 (23e éd.) = Écologie humaine - États-Unis - Imperial (comté)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781496216731 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47131904b
Notice n° :
FRBNF47131904
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: A World on the Brink ; Part I. Desert ; Flood ; Part II. Birds
; Concrete ; Bodies ; Part III. Bombs ; Chains ; Toxics ; Conclusion: A How-To
Guide to Saving the Salton Sea.
