This book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowess that are currently being flexed on the global stage.
Through a fascinating combination of ethnographic research across seven US states and the application of postcolonial, anti-racist, feminist and poststructuralist theories, __Land, God, and Guns__ reveals how time-honoured rites of passage associated with taken-for-granted notions of manhood in the American Heartland are constitutive of a constellation of colonial worldviews, capitalist logics, gender essentialisms, ethnocentric religious beliefs, jingoistic populism, racial animus, and embodied violence. A constellation that, within the US, upholds a heteropatriarchal and racist ordering of life that both privileges and ultimately damages its main proliferators – white settler men.
This is a detailed work that at once unravels rural white settler masculinity and the US state at their roots, whilst demonstrating why any analysis of the cultural production and social practice of masculinity in the United States must take into account the country's historical trajectories of imperialism, land dispossession, nation-state building, enslavement, extractive accumulation and valorisation of masculinist assertions of dominance.

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Jesper Bjarnesen; Simon Turner

Gahman, Levi;

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Bloomsbury Academic

Zed Books, Limited

I.B. Tauris

Africa now (Zed Books), London, England, 2021

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

London, 2020

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Front Cover 1
Half Title 2
About the Author 3
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Dedication 6
Contents 8
1: There’s No Place Like Home ... 12
Introduction 12
Positionality and Context 18
Methods and Fieldwork 31
Aims and Rationale 35
Organization 42
2: Settler Colonialism, Empire, Borders 47
God Shed His Grace on Thee ... 47
Settler Colonialism and Dispossession 49
Deracination and Genocide 51
Racial Capitalism and the State 54
The Twenty-First-Century Color-Line? 59
Border Imperialism 63
Migration and (non)Belonging 70
3: Masculinity, Place, Intersectionality 77
Just the Way It Is ’Round Here ... 77
Geography and Hegemonic Masculinity 79
Gender and the Body 83
Embodiment, Dis/Ability, and Representation 86
Race, Whiteness, and “Othering” 91
Sexuality and Heteronormativity 96
4: Kansas, Bled: Land, History, Violence 102
What’s the Matter with Kansas? 102
Space, Law, and Borders 105
Religion and Sexuality 110
Enclosure, Elimination, and Nation-Building 115
Gender, Race, and Hierarchy 119
Emotion, Paradox, and Monster 127
“Safe” Communities, Authoritarian Populism 130
Denial, Disavowal, and Disaffiliation 136
5: Frontier, Family, Nation 139
Don’t Tread on Me ... 139
Frontier Masculinity: Protectors and Providers 142
Ideology: Liberal, Capitalist, Colonial 147
God, Fathering, and Nationalism 150
Good Guys versus Bad Guys 157
The Banal Weaponization of the Rural 160
Violence and Criminalization 165
Complicity and the Status Quo 168
6: Capitalism, Work, Respect 170
Take Me Home, Country Roads ... 170
Capitalism and Masculinity 171
(Neo)Liberal Self-Making 173
Work Ethic and Pulling Your Weight 177
Rurality, Religion, and Heteronormativity 181
Competition, Pride, and Tradition 185
Emotion and Relationships 193
Social Reproduction and Consumption 197
7: Looking Back, Going Forward ... 203
Looking Back 203
Going Forward 206
Notes 212
Bibliography 214
Index 240

"This book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowess that are currently being flexed on the global stage. Through a fascinating combination of ethnographic research across seven US states and the application of postcolonial, anti-racist, feminist and poststructuralist theories, Land, God, and Guns reveals how time-honoured rites of passage associated with taken-for-granted notions of manhood in the American Heartland are constitutive of a constellation of colonial worldviews, capitalist logics, gender essentialisms, ethnocentric religious beliefs, jingoistic populism, racial animus, and embodied violence. A constellation that, within the US, upholds a heteropatriarchal and racist ordering of life that both privileges and ultimately damages its main proliferators ? white settler men. This is a detailed work that at once unravels rural white settler masculinity and the US state at their roots, whilst demonstrating why any analysis of the cultural production and social practice of masculinity in the United States must take into account the country's historical trajectories of imperialism, land dispossession, nation-state building, enslavement, extractive accumulation and valorisation of masculinist assertions of dominance."-- Provided by publisher

This book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowess that are currently being flexed on the global stage. Through a fascinating combination of ethnographic research across seven US states and application of postcolonial, anti-racist, feminist and poststructuralist theories, Land, God, and Guns reveals how time-honoured rites of passage associated with taken-for-granted notions of manhood in the American Heartland are constitutive of a constellation of colonial worldviews, capitalist logics, gender essentialisms, ethnocentric religious beliefs, jingoistic populism, racial animus, and embodied violence. A constellation that, within the US, upholds a heteropatriarchal and racist ordering of life that both privileges and ultimately damages its main proliferators - white settler men. This is a detailed work that at once unravels rural white settler masculinity and the US state at their roots, whilst demonstrating why any analysis of the cultural production and social practice of masculinity in the United States must take into account the country's historical trajectories of imperialism, land dispossesion, nation-state building, enslavement, extractive accumulation and valorisaton of masculinist assertions of dominance.--back cover

This book is an antidote to the ideas of American white hetero-settler masculinity, prowess, and exceptionalism that are currently being flexed on the global stage. Through a fascinating combination of ethnographic research across six US states and an application of anti-colonial, feminist, and poststructuralist theories, Land, God and Guns reveals how time-honored rationalities and rites of passage associated with manhood in the American Heartland are constitutive of colonial worldviews, capitalist logics, essentialist gender binaries, ethnocentric religious conservatism, jingoistic nationalism, racial superiority, and embodied violence. A violence that both privileges and ultimately damages its main proliferators, white settler men. A detailed work that unravels how white constructions of and claims to land, history, and manhood are manufactured frontier myths that uphold a racist and heteropatriarchal ordering of life, and argues for a reconceiving of taken-for-granted notions such as respect, pride, property, and production.

How rationalities and rites of passage associated with manhood in the white American Heartland are constitutive of racist and heteropatriarchal violence

2021-11-16