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SUMMARY:California Futures: Haunted Ecologies\, Decolonial Relations
LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. 590 Steinbeck Center\, 150 E San Fernando 
 St\, San Jose\, CA 95112
DESCRIPTION:Visit the Center for Steinbeck Studies\, MLK Library 5th Floor
 \, for a reading by SJSU Associate Professor of Humanities Daniel Lanza R
 ivers from their new book California Futures: Haunted Ecologies\, Decolon
 ial Relations\, published by Duke University Press.\n\nCalifornia Futures
  is a critical study of California as a site of liberatory dreaming—one t
 hat takes up the history\, politics\, and afterlives of the region’s colo
 nial imaginings as well as archives of resistance and world-making which 
 strive toward Indigenous\, decolonial\, Black\, queer\, feminist\, and an
 ti-white supremacist futures. Attending carefully to the colonial\, comme
 rcial\, and environmental entanglements of the region\, Daniel Lanza Rive
 rs offers an account of the processes of speculation that worlded Califor
 nia into being. Rivers examines case studies such as the colonial culture
 s of grizzly bear eradication and reintroduction\; the convergence of dro
 ught\, industrial agriculture\, and environmental toxicity in California'
 s Central Valley\; utopianism in the Klamath Mountains\, from the Black B
 ear Ranch commune to Octavia Butler’s Parable series\; dam removal and Na
 tive climate adaptation on the Klamath watershed\; and the policing of un
 housed people around Oakland's Lake Merritt. Through these case studies\,
  Rivers interrogates the long histories of settler conquest\, extractive 
 and racial capitalism\, and heteropatriarchy that have shaped California.
  They chart strategies for thinking beyond the colonial Anthropocene and 
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