Recreational Colonialism and the Rhetorical Landscapes of the Outdoors

Recreational Colonialism and the Rhetorical Landscapes of the Outdoors

by Kyle Boggs
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 14/05/2025

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In Recreational Colonialism and the Rhetorical Landscapes of the Outdoors, Kyle Boggs chronicles the struggle between Indigenous peoples who have rooted religious and cultural ties to outdoor sites across the US and elsewhere and the settlers who claim the right to freely recreate in those same places. Synthesizing theories of rhetoric, environmental studies, and settler colonialism, Boggs confronts the ways that settler colonial experiences and expectations have been narrated through rhetorical practices on these so-called public lands. Fusing journalism and personal narrative with scholarly research, Boggs’s argument comes to bear on his central case study of a northern Arizona ski development on a mountain held sacred by at least thirteen Indigenous tribes. In illuminating the striking ways that settler imaginaries are accommodated, performed, and sustained in the everyday, Boggs offers a powerful reminder that even during leisure activities (in this case, sports such as ultrarunning, rock climbing, and skiing), complex webs of power control who can access resources and land and who has the right to protect histories and cultures.

ISBN:
9780814284148
9780814284148
Category:
Society & social sciences
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
14-05-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ohio State University Press

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