Land, God and Guns - by Levi Gahman (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This book is an antidote to the ideas of American white hetero-settler masculinity, prowess, and exceptionalism that are currently being flexed on the global stage. Through a fascinating combination of ethnographic research across six US states and an application of anti-colonial, feminist, and poststructuralist theories, <em>Land, God and Guns</em> reveals how time-honored rationalities and rites of passage associated with manhood in the American Heartland are constitutive of colonial worldviews, capitalist logics, essentialist gender binaries, ethnocentric religious conservatism, jingoistic nationalism, racial superiority, and embodied violence. A violence that both privileges and ultimately damages its main proliferators, white settler men. A detailed work that unravels how white constructions of and claims to land, history, and manhood are manufactured frontier myths that uphold a racist and heteropatriarchal ordering of life, and argues for a reconceiving of taken-for-granted notions such as respect, pride, property, and production.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"i>'A unique view into the lives and struggles of working class white men in the Heartland of the United States. Drawing on critical geography and postcolonial theory, it reveals mundane forms of violence central to settler colonialism that stabilize a region and people typically mythologized in the contemporary political landscape." --<i>Jeffrey Montez de Oca, University of Colorado</i> <p/>"A compassionate dialogue with men in the American heartland, this is a book that needs reading in these urgent and polarizing times." --<i>Sarah de Leeuw, University of Northern British Columbia</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Levi Gahman</b>, born and raised in rural Kansas, currently works in the Power, Space, and Cultural Change unit at the University of Liverpool's Department of Geography and remains a researcher with the University of the West Indies' Institute for Gender and Development Studies. His areas of focus include anti-racist and anti-colonial praxis, critical development studies, gender justice, and autonomous social movements. Along the way, he has spent time as a sawmill laborer, farmhand, warehouse worker, substance abuse counselor, trauma therapist, disability services associate, human rights observer, and solidarity brigade member. Levi is also editor of the journal <i>ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies</i>.<br>Born and raised in rural Kansas, Levi Gahman currently works in the Power, Space, and Cultural Change unit at the University of Liverpool's Department of Geography and remains a researcher with the University of the West Indies' Institute for Gender and Development Studies. His areas of focus include anti-racist and anti-colonial praxis, critical development studies, gender justice, and autonomous social movements. Along the way, he has spent time as a sawmill laborer, farmhand, warehouse worker, substance abuse counselor, trauma therapist, disability services associate, human rights observer, and solidarity brigade member. Levi is also editor of the journal <i>ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies</i>.</p>
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