Erosion

“Gina Caison’s Erosion is a superb example of environmental humanities scholarship and will serve as a model for the field’s methodologies and their affordances. Caison shows that the movement of soil across regions of the United States may appear naturalized but in fact reflects the ecological, social, and cultural depredations of settler colonialism and racial capital. Bringing Indigenous and regional studies perspectives to a powerful narrative of the material and metaphorical effects of the shifting ground of US settler land management, Erosion will generate keen, widespread interest.” - Hester Blum, author of The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration

“Gina Caison’s important and careful analysis of the environmental impacts of settler colonialism reminds us that addressing and building climate justice will not come just from science-based inquiries but will be elevated by the work of the humanities to challenge and grow our perspectives on erosion and climate change. Caison’s work is extremely effective at demonstrating how settler colonial anxiety informs conservation and environmentalism and why critical and cultural conversations like this book are key to the future of building climate resiliency.” - Cutcha Risling Baldy, author of We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies

"Caison demonstrates that the American crisis of severe erosion stems from abusive land ownership, disregard for polluted waterways, and inadequate but crucial understanding of Indigenous land use methods. ... Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." - L. L. Johnson, Choice

“Gina Caison’s innovative, impassioned book . . . is riveting. . . . Caison makes valuable contributions not just to American literary history and studies, but also to Indigenous studies, Southern and other regional studies, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, and film and media studies.” - Nicole Seymour, ALH Review