White Settler Society as Monster: Rural Southeast Kansas, Ancestral Osage (Wah‐Zha‐Zhi) Territories, and the Violence of Forgetting

Gahman, Levi (2016) White Settler Society as Monster: Rural Southeast Kansas, Ancestral Osage (Wah‐Zha‐Zhi) Territories, and the Violence of Forgetting. Antipode, 48 (2). pp. 314-335.

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Abstract

This article provides a critical analysis of the practices and discourses of white settler “men” in Southeast Kansas (Ancestral Osage Territories) by examining the inextricable links rural masculinity has with settler colonialism. I begin by underscoring how efforts in erasing Indigenous histories have been sanctioned through processes of dispossession, bordering, and nation‐state building. I then explore how hetero‐patriarchal rural hierarchies are assembled via capitalistic desires for private property; conservative Christianity's rhetoric of altruism and good intentions; white supremacist conceptions of race; and masculinist perspectives regarding work and gender. Next, I highlight how the spatial assertion of white settler masculinity reproduces colonial oppressions based upon interlocking subject positions and notions of difference. I continue by suggesting denial and disaffiliation are banal exercises of disavowal employed by white settler societies as attempts to forget colonial violence. I then finish by illustrating how a masculinist status quo might be disrupted, resisted, and transformed.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Settler colonialism, Masculinity, White supremacy, Discourse analysis, Feminist geography, Rural geography
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	21 Jan 2019 09:51
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 01:06
DOI:	10.1111/anti.12177
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3031465