Redefining Land Management in North American Literature and Culture From Resource to Reciprocity

Foreword

Joseph Gazing Wolf

Introduction: Resourcing Love in Land Management

Jada Ach and Kristen Brown

Part 1: The Language of Management

1. Badlands Management

Joshua T. Anderson

2. Relationality

Lydia Cagluaq Agnus and Lisa Fink

3. Reclamation

Quinn Grover

4. Allotment 

Jonathan Radocay

5. Islandness

Sreya Ann Oommen

6. Aridity

Gary Reger

7. (Un)documented Ecologies

Rafael A. Martínez

8. Fugitive Sand

Jada Ach

9. Rural/Wilderness

Surabhi Balachander

Part 2: Representations of Management: Histories of Claim and Control

10. Violence Against the Land is Violence Against the People: Land Management Tactics in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms

Jessica Cory

11. Deuter-Agonies: The Unmanageable Life of Alice Sakaguchi in Hiroshi Nakamura's Treadmill

Mika Kennedy

12. Trail Reviews: Further Commodification of Wilderness

Eytan Pol

Part 3: Webs of Caring Relations: Cultivating Ecorelational Literacies in the Environmental Humanities 

13. Wastelands of Decolonial Resurgence: Managing Land and Refuse/al in Gerald Vizenor’s and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Indigenous Narratives

Elpida Ziavra

14. Resistant Infrastructure: Relational Responses to Ecological Punishment in Contemporary Multiethnic Narrative Practices

Dominique Aurilla Vargas

15. Soil Futures: Environmental Management as Care in Mary Ann Shadd Cary’s “A Plea for Emigration”

Hannah Muhlfelder

16. “Back to Belonging”: Sound, Ceremony, and Resonance in Re-membered Communities of Care

Kristen Brown

Part 4: Resourcing Love to Actualize Otherwise Worlds

17. Grassing Gettysburg: Management, Memory, and Meaning

Michael R. Barnes and Amy T. Hamilton

18. Exploring Traditional Ecological Knowledges in the Classroom: Indigenous Ecostudies

Cari M. Carpenter

19. “For sheer joy in wild terrain”: Rock Climbing Literature and Public Lands

Sarah Jane Kerwin

20. Hueco Tanks: Envisioning Indigenous Space and Public Lands

Robert Gunn, Andrea Everett, and Alex Mares

Biography

Jada Ach is Associate Teaching Professor of Applied Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies at Arizona State University where she teaches courses in literature, film, and environmental humanities. Her research combines insights from literary studies, the desert humanities, and land management history. She is the author of Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880-1925 (Texas Tech University Press, 2021) and co-editor of Reading Aridity in Western American Literature (Lexington Books, 2020).

Kristen Brown is Assistant Professor of English at Northern State University in South Dakota, where she teaches environmentally themed composition and literature courses. Her teaching and research center Indigenous authors and perspectives with attention to the sensory–especially sonic–contours of being and belonging. In addition to her chapter on pedagogical approaches to the works of Charles Eastman/Ohiyesa (Santee Dakota) in the award-winning collection Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom (University of Illinois, 2024), her articles appear in Western American Literature and Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture.