Violent Inheritance

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I know of no other book that quite puts together such a transdisciplinary constellation of concerns with this kind of intellectual sophistication and lived connection to the subject matter. This book blazes exciting new trails across academic territories!"—Gregory Seigworth, Professor of Digital Communication and Cultural Studies, Millersville University of Pennsylvania "E Cram grapples with the violent inheritance of settler cultures in the US West with unflinching honesty and attunement to the regenerative possibilities lived by queer decolonial thinkers. Cram's searching, often intimate Violent Inheritance reaches for worlds beyond petromodernity, futures that even now struggle to emerge through messy, fierce solidarities." —Stephanie LeMenager, Moore Endowed Professor of English and Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Oregon  "E Cram's Violent Inheritance is a work at once searing and tender, confronting white queer complicities with settler-colonial visions of landscape while tracking possibilities for coalition and collaboration. It skillfully demonstrates how regimes of modern sexuality depend upon stolen land—and, crucially, redefines "sexuality" not as individual orientation or identity but as larger-scale phenomena of reproduction, domesticity, and biopolitical control. This is a rare and rewarding invitation to think through the intersection of queer studies, environmental humanities , and decolonial/indigenous studies." —Nicole Seymour, author of Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age   "More than any other book I have encountered, Violent Inheritance persuasively reckons sexual modernity as an ecological formation, one jaggedly woven through the capitalist extractions and settler dispossessions that mold bodies and landscapes alike in the American West. The book's intellectual wager is vast. Without this book, I do not think you can fully understand the sexual politics of energy, nor the environmental politics of sexuality, and that makes Violent Inheritance a bracing, powerful, and essential achievement." — Gabriel N. Rosenberg, author of The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural America  "Few books give me pause as this one has. What, I wonder, does it mean to trace the racialized and colonial land lines of sexual modernity across all landscapes? How might we theorize extractivism with and against vitality in all modes of energy? These are the questions and directions that emerge across this historic, archival, and deeply personal book. It is a must read for those immersed in rhetorical, environmental, queer, and critical race projects." —Lisa A. Flores, author of Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the "Illegal" Immigrant   "This compelling and original book brings the energy humanities into dialogue with queer studies, crafting a conversation that will have a lasting impact on both fields. Moving deftly across multiple histories and methodologies, Cram dwells on the intimate crossings between land and bodies, expanding out understanding of how biopower operates. Beautifully researched and written, Violent Inheritance is at once deeply responsive to histories of dispossession and damage and attentive to possibilities for regeneration and care." — Dana Luciano, Associatie Professor of English and Women's & Gender Studies, Rutgers University