Bakken ecology : the culture and space of fracked farmland in North Dakota
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Farmland fracking shapes culture, space, and ecology in northwestern North Dakota's Bakken region. Oil company employees and officials, scientists and landowners collectively manage the socioecological uncertainties of juxtaposed agriculture and extractivism. This dissertation examines the politics of that public/private managerial process. Engaging political and environmental anthropology, I describe modern environmental politics in the Bakken as a reflection of Settler colonial ideals integral to the founding of the nation. Fracking in the Bakken is no imposition of, or victimization by, government and corporations. Instead, hydrocarbon commodification is a deeply personal practice through which people manage uncertainty according to colonial ideals for both space and ecology. Through that process, the people who live in and/or manage the Bakken come to define the modern environment according to colonial ideals for managing socioecological processes. Not just a product of conservative America, the politics of managing hydrocarbon commodification analyzed in this dissertation are evidenced across modern ecologies.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Silva, Nestor Leonardo |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Ferguson, James, 1959- |
| Thesis advisor | Ferguson, James, 1959- |
| Thesis advisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Garcia, Angela, 1971- |
| Thesis advisor | Tambar, Kabir |
| Degree committee member | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Degree committee member | Garcia, Angela, 1971- |
| Degree committee member | Tambar, Kabir |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Nestor L. Silva. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/dn264zw3715 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Nestor Leonardo Silva
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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