Includes bibliographical references (pages 251- 279) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Settler Colonialism and Ecological Violence -- 1. Gold, Greed, and Genocide: Settler Colonialism and Resource Extraction in the California Gold Rush -- 2. Forests on Fire: Constructing Natural Resources and Imposing Ecological Regimes -- 3. Salmon Is Everything: Controlling Rivers and Commodifying Kin -- 4. Back to Whose Land? Hippies, Environmentalism, and Cannabis -- 5. Weed Greed: Explosion of the California Green Rush -- 6. No Justice on Stolen Land: Cannabis Cultivation and Land Dispossession -- 7. Cannabis and Water: Use, Rights, and Infrastructure -- 8. Toxic Environments: Cannabis, Chemicals, and Legacy Impacts -- Conclusion: Ecological Crisis and #LandBack.
Summary:
"From Gold Rush to Green Rush focuses on the surge in cannabis production in California, dubbed the "Green Rush," an apt reference to a Gold Rush-era ideology of manifest destiny, resource extraction, and wealth accumulation. Kaitlin Reed connects the historical and ecological dots between the California Gold Rush of the 1850s and the contemporary Green Rush by tracing patterns of settler colonial resource rushing: first gold, then timber, then fish, and now cannabis"-- Provided by publisher.
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