TY - JOUR
T1 - A Genealogy of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
T2 - Considering the Future of Federal Public Lands
AU - Brugger, Julie
N1 - Funding Information:
This article builds on my dissertation, Public Land and American Democratic Imaginaries: A Case Study of Conflict over the Management of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, from the University of Washington.
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PY - 2020/6/2
Y1 - 2020/6/2
N2 - In September 1996, President Clinton proclaimed the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) in southern Utah in order to protect its scientific and historic resources. In December 2017, President Trump reduced the size of the Monument by 46 percent and opened the excluded lands to motorized vehicles, energy and mineral development, and sale or other disposition. His action was immediately challenged by multiple lawsuits which will take years to settle in court. This article examines these events and the shifting management of U.S. public lands through the lens of governmentality. It traces the genealogy of GSENM as perceptions of public lands shifted from vacant, to possessing valuable natural resources, to national landscapes, to show how new forms of management and governmentality arose and were contested. Using these insights, it considers what current trends in public land management suggest about an emerging neoliberal governmentality and the future of public lands.
AB - In September 1996, President Clinton proclaimed the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) in southern Utah in order to protect its scientific and historic resources. In December 2017, President Trump reduced the size of the Monument by 46 percent and opened the excluded lands to motorized vehicles, energy and mineral development, and sale or other disposition. His action was immediately challenged by multiple lawsuits which will take years to settle in court. This article examines these events and the shifting management of U.S. public lands through the lens of governmentality. It traces the genealogy of GSENM as perceptions of public lands shifted from vacant, to possessing valuable natural resources, to national landscapes, to show how new forms of management and governmentality arose and were contested. Using these insights, it considers what current trends in public land management suggest about an emerging neoliberal governmentality and the future of public lands.
KW - Democracy
KW - genealogy
KW - Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
KW - neoliberal governmentality
KW - public lands
KW - re-territorialization
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U2 - 10.1080/08941920.2019.1708520
DO - 10.1080/08941920.2019.1708520
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85077850224
VL - 33
SP - 788
EP - 805
JO - Society and Natural Resources
JF - Society and Natural Resources
SN - 0894-1920
IS - 6
ER -