{"product_id":"settling-the-boom-the-sites-and-subjects-of-bakken-oil-paperback","title":"Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary E. Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eBruce Braun\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and narratives order a resource boom\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Over the past decade, new oil plays have unsettled U.S. energy landscapes and imaginaries. \u003ci\u003eSettling the Boom\u003c\/i\u003e studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms.\u003cp\u003eThis collection reveals the results of sustained research in Williston, North Dakota, the epicenter of the \"Bakken Boom.\" While the boom brought a rapid influx of capital and workers, the book questions simple timelines of before and after. Instead, \u003ci\u003eSettling the Boom\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the unsettling forces of an oil play resolve through normative narratives and material and affective infrastructures that support settler colonialism's violent extension and its gendered orders of time and space. Considering a wide range of evidence, from urban and regional policy, interviews with city officials, media, photography, and film, these essays analyze the ongoing material, aesthetic, and narrative ways of life and land in the Bakken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Morgan Adamson, Macalester College; Kai Bosworth, Virginia Commonwealth U; Thomas S. Davis, Ohio State U; Jessica Lehman, Durham U.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary E. Thomas is associate professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at The Ohio State University. She is coauthor of \u003ci\u003eUrban Geography: A Critical Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eMulticultural Girlhood: Racism, Sexuality, and the Conflicted Spaces of Urban Education. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBruce Braun is professor of geography at the University of Minnesota. He is coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePolitical Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eThe Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture, and Power on Canada's West Coast, \u003c\/i\u003e both from Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42169079758983,"sku":"9781517913878","price":48.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/71659e37e6c7a7ab6d82cacf4ee44a55.webp?v=1733339066","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/settling-the-boom-the-sites-and-subjects-of-bakken-oil-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}