Beyond the Native/Settler Divide in Early California

Spear, Jennifer M.

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“…This territory, including the coastline, was wrested from Native peoples, often brutally (see Lindsay 2015; Madley 2016). It was taken by the Spanish first, then by the United States, in overlapping waves of colonization (Spear 2019), culminating with a period of Native genocide, displacement, and removal to reservations toward the latter part of the nineteenth century. These patterns of dispossession, removal, and exclusion were extended in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to displace additional coastal Others, whether Chinese immigrants (Pfaelzer 2008) or African Americans (Jefferson 2020).…”

Section: Thirteen Thousand Years To Commodificationmentioning

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The taboo of retreat: The politics of sea level rise, managed retreat, and coastal property values in California

Anderson

2022

Economic Anthropology

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This article uses anthropological and historical perspectives to explore ongoing conflicts over “managed retreat” and property values along the California coast. Proponents of managed retreat argue that coastal communities need to start planning for the impending effects of sea level rise, including retreating or relocating away from vulnerable coastal spaces. Some residents and organizations oppose such measures, often citing the need to protect coastal home and real estate values. One of the key arguments of some residents is that such coastal properties should be protected because they are so valuable. Drawing from sociological and anthropological theories of value, in addition to ethnographic research in California, this article explores how this situation in California came to be, what it can tell us about the politics of value and financialization, and finally, what it portends for the future as our highly financialized world faces the looming threat of climate change.

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Section: Thirteen Thousand Years To Commodificationmentioning

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The taboo of retreat: The politics of sea level rise, managed retreat, and coastal property values in California

Anderson

2022

Economic Anthropology

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“…Interestingly, Shoemaker further separates “planter colonialism” from “extractive colonialism”, under which colonizers are primarily interested in a raw material found in a particular locale, but are more likely to obtain resources through “native diplomatic mediation, environmental knowledge, and labor”, rather than through overt destruction and violence (2015). Examples of extractive colonialism might be furs in New France or silver in New Spain, which relied on Indigenous labor combined with Indigenous knowledge and expertise (Spear, 2019, pp. 427–434).…”

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Colonial injustice and racial exploitation

Lim

2021

Journal of Social Philosophy

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Annoyances, Tolerable and Intolerable

Schwartz

2024

Situation Critical

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This chapter revises an old question: Why do early Americanists say that the Puritans weren’t repressed? And what would be at stake if they were? The answer to the second question, it suggests, is happiness. To address the first, it examines a poem, Edward Johnson’s “New England’s Annoyances,” about an aspect of Puritan daily life that tends to fall away from our attention: the fact that daily life in one of the earliest English colonies in Algonquian territories was unrelentingly full of annoyances. The poem’s humor attempts to transform these annoyances from a source of division and fractiousness into an opportunity for mutual felicity. Closely read, Johnson’s poem showcases repression’s ordinariness; historicized, it showcases the situationally specific antagonisms that repression successfully hides from sight: the disturbing experience of sharing a form of existence—abstractly individual personhood—with radically different persons and polities, here the Indigenous peoples of the continent.

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Beyond the Native/Settler Divide in Early California

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

The taboo of retreat: The politics of sea level rise, managed retreat, and coastal property values in California

The taboo of retreat: The politics of sea level rise, managed retreat, and coastal property values in California

Colonial injustice and racial exploitation

Annoyances, Tolerable and Intolerable

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