Imagined Environments

The Making of the Borderlands
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-520-42816-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: American Crossroads

Casting light across the US-Mexico borderlands, Carlos Alonso Nugent reveals the region’s “imagined environments”—the frameworks through which its human groups have represented, related to, and resided in their more-than-human worlds. While these imagined environments can feel immersive and even immutable, Nugent explains how they have in fact emerged in everything from Apache pictographs to US and Mexican laws to novels, poems, paintings, and photographs. By showing how the larger imagined environments have shaped and been shaped by such cultural constituents, he revises accepted accounts of relational racialization. Advancing from 1848 to the present, he demonstrates that whiteness has coevolved with western water infrastructures, that Latinidades have developed through divergent forms of land tenure, and that Native nations have thrived not only by staying in specific places but also by migrating across vast spaces. With such stories, Nugent complicates the environmental humanities; even as he argues that media have naturalized our use and abuse of the planet, he still explores how they have helped us love places we have never been and care for creatures we have never met.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nugent, Carlos Alonso

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Umweltethik, Umweltphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart One. The Many Maps of the Borderlands, from the End of the US-Mexico War to the End of the US-Apache Wars1. Drawing and Disrupting Borders in the Wake of the US-Mexico War2. Land and Latinidad During and After the California Gold RushPart Two. The Rise of Environmental Obliviousness, from Developing the Transcontinental Railroad to Detonating the First Atomic Bomb3. Whiteness and/as Water Infrastructure Along the Colorado River4. Primitive Landscapes Across Mass Culture and ModernismPart Three. Latina/o Experiments in Environmental Awareness, from the Mexican Revolution to the NAFTA Era5. Publics, Counterpublics, and the Fight for Lost Lands6. Migrant Farmworker Media in the US-Mexico Food SystemConclusion: Reimagining Life and Death Under “Prevention Through Deterrence”NotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Carlos Alonso Nugent is Assistant Professor at Columbia University, where he is appointed in both the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.