Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This text offers itself as a pragmatic guide, and, as such, its ideology tends to privilege finding immediate solutions for the crises it addresses. This immediacy is fitting, of course. Ecological threats aren't the kind of thing that can wait to be resolved. Unlikely Alliances is also, ultimately, a hopeful text, one that celebrates a kind of progress in these alliances."
-- John Gamber * Transmotion *
"The most valuable contribution of Grossman’s detailed study is that it provides a useful guide for building alliances against environmentally destructive projects and evaluating what strategies have been successful, and which ones have not worked so well, in defending rural land, resources and cultures."
-- Al Gedicks * Race & Class *
"Unlikely Alliances is particularly salient in a contemporary context of both political gridlock and increasing environmental threats. With specific attention to each rural context, Grossman acknowledges complexity and the dynamic intersecting factors that allow Native/white alliances to thrive or, conversely, to erode and dissolve. The lessons he offers from rural Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Nevada, and beyond support the place based work of constructing collaboration across lines of historic conflict."
* Native & Indigenous Studies Journal *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part One | Running Upstream
1. Fish Wars and Co-Management: Western Washington
2. Water Wars and Breaching Dams: Northwest Plateau
Part Two | Militarizing Lands and Skies
3. Military Projects and Environmental Racism: Nevada and Southern Wisconsin
Part Three | Keeping It in the Ground
4. Resource Wars and Sharing Sacred Lands: Montana and South Dakota
5. Fossil Fuel Shipping and Blocking: Northern Plains and Pacific Northwest
Part Four | Agreeing on the Water
6. Fishing and Exclusion: Northern Wisconsin
7. Mining and Inclusion: Northern Wisconsin
Conclusion
