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'Holy Water': The Crisis of White Affect, Infrastructural Threat, and Horticultural Promise in the Sacramento Valley- [electronic resource]
'Holy Water': The Crisis of White Affect, Infrastructural Threat, and Horticultural Promise in the Sacramento Valley- [electronic resource]
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214100438
- ISBN
- 9798380382908
- DDC
- 378
- 서명/저자
- Holy Water: The Crisis of White Affect, Infrastructural Threat, and Horticultural Promise in the Sacramento Valley - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : University of California, Berkeley., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(177 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Scott Lewis, Jovan.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2023.
- 사용제한주기
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
- 초록/해제
- 요약A network of levees, channels, and weirs means to protect Sacramento, CA from catastrophic flooding. However, civic boosters never claimed geomorphological reinvention as infrastructure's sole fantastic promise for the capital city. Their assurances intrinsically imbricated riverine stability with guarantees of infrastructural financial steadiness and civilizational might. This economic consistency remained an alluring promise within a developmental ethos encouraging speculation and wealth concentration.Through racial capitalist critique, I dissect three prominent Sacramentan hydrological corporations that appealed to whiteness as aligning these values: Natomas Consolidated, the Sutter Basin Company, and the California Steam Navigation Company. Despite uneven development's racialized landscapes alternately stockpiling potential value or sinking excessive commodities, eventually overproduction or ecological variation inexorably induces market crisis. In response, elite Sacramentans mitigated inherent capitalist contradiction by fabricating a novel white racial form tethered to infrastructural development. They imagined whiteness as a balancing force capturing nature's potential, harnessing returns through technological abstraction, and allowing ceaseless circulation-including of capitalism's detritus. They fantasized a universal, domestic, and fecund whiteness yielding productive landscapes from waste in whatever context. In their fantasy, whiteness could transit ceaselessly from empire's hinterlands back to its core with minimal friction, mimicking infrastructure and avoiding expansion's inevitable limits.I analyze affective traces from these firms' developmental schema to critique their reliance on whiteness across scales to resolve crisis. They prioritized the domestic imperative, technofetishism, and abstraction of whiteness through infrastructural association. The massive public works offered concrete stability for wandering investment once particular resource caches withered, individual financial parachutes for overeager speculators, and even novel intimate racial identities for an emergent imperial settler colony. I track ephemeral traces of this emotional attachment, recounting the beating heart of capitalism's inevitable catastrophe and an innate racial recourse deferring disaster through offers of white civilizational redemption.
- 일반주제명
- American studies.
- 일반주제명
- Geography.
- 일반주제명
- Ethnic studies.
- 일반주제명
- Geomorphology.
- 키워드
- Sacramento
- 키워드
- Whiteness
- 기타저자
- University of California, Berkeley Geography
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-03B.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■500 ▼aSource: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: B.
■500 ▼aAdvisor: Scott Lewis, Jovan.
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■506 ▼aThis item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
■520 ▼aA network of levees, channels, and weirs means to protect Sacramento, CA from catastrophic flooding. However, civic boosters never claimed geomorphological reinvention as infrastructure's sole fantastic promise for the capital city. Their assurances intrinsically imbricated riverine stability with guarantees of infrastructural financial steadiness and civilizational might. This economic consistency remained an alluring promise within a developmental ethos encouraging speculation and wealth concentration.Through racial capitalist critique, I dissect three prominent Sacramentan hydrological corporations that appealed to whiteness as aligning these values: Natomas Consolidated, the Sutter Basin Company, and the California Steam Navigation Company. Despite uneven development's racialized landscapes alternately stockpiling potential value or sinking excessive commodities, eventually overproduction or ecological variation inexorably induces market crisis. In response, elite Sacramentans mitigated inherent capitalist contradiction by fabricating a novel white racial form tethered to infrastructural development. They imagined whiteness as a balancing force capturing nature's potential, harnessing returns through technological abstraction, and allowing ceaseless circulation-including of capitalism's detritus. They fantasized a universal, domestic, and fecund whiteness yielding productive landscapes from waste in whatever context. In their fantasy, whiteness could transit ceaselessly from empire's hinterlands back to its core with minimal friction, mimicking infrastructure and avoiding expansion's inevitable limits.I analyze affective traces from these firms' developmental schema to critique their reliance on whiteness across scales to resolve crisis. They prioritized the domestic imperative, technofetishism, and abstraction of whiteness through infrastructural association. The massive public works offered concrete stability for wandering investment once particular resource caches withered, individual financial parachutes for overeager speculators, and even novel intimate racial identities for an emergent imperial settler colony. I track ephemeral traces of this emotional attachment, recounting the beating heart of capitalism's inevitable catastrophe and an innate racial recourse deferring disaster through offers of white civilizational redemption.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0028.
■650 4▼aAmerican studies.
■650 4▼aGeography.
■650 4▼aEthnic studies.
■650 4▼aGeomorphology.
■653 ▼aWealth concentration
■653 ▼aEcological variation
■653 ▼aInfrastructural financial steadiness
■653 ▼aRacial capitalism
■653 ▼aSacramento
■653 ▼aWhiteness
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■980 ▼a202402▼f2024
