Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico

by Jake Kosek

Through lively, engaging narrative, Understories demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent struggles over forests in the southwestern United States. Rather than reproduce traditional understandings of nature and environment, Jake Kosek shifts the focus toward material and symbolic "natures," seemingly unchangeable essences central to formations of race, class, and nation that are being remade...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822338475
• ISBN13: 9780822338475
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"