Blog Contributor: Joshua Smith

Joshua Smith is a doctoral candidate in Communication Studies at the University of Kansas. This post comes from his dissertation on Bears Ears National Monument and the rhetoricity of land. His research examines how land becomes rhetorical and political, entangled in many aspects of American culture and life. More work from this project and his dissertation can be found in this article, published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

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Bears Ears and the Proposal of the Inter-Tribal Coalition: Crafting an Anticolonial Third-Space of Ecological Land Management

Mike Lee, "the Local," and Colonial Limitations on the Land's Subject