Laura Barraclough
Biographic Data
| ID | 117786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Barraclough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Barraclough |
| SIGNATURE | BARRACLOUGH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0884-8797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Stakeholder expectations for future mountain forests
Climate change is altering the dynamics of ecosystem services provided by mountain forests, with social responses to changes (e.g., management) influencing their future availability and supply. However, research specifically targeting stakeholder expectations of future mountain forests and their ecosystem services has thus far not been addressed. However, this is required to foster sustainable management approaches in the future. In our study, we…
Moving Away from Settler Colonialism in the Classroom
Exploring Tourists' Preferences for Forest Ecosystem Services Under Climate Change
Forests are important providers of ecosystem services (ESs) for mountain tourism; however, they are also vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. We explore tourists' perceptions and valuation of mountain forest ESs and climate change and analyze the findings within the Drivers–Pressures–States–Impacts–Response framework. Using the Stubai valley in the Austrian Alps as a case study, we surveyed 349 summer tourists on how they value mountain f…
From rights to relations with the rural
This commentary responds to Van Sant and Fairbairn's invitation to consider the meanings, potentials, and pitfalls of land access struggles in settler colonial contexts. Drawing on teachings from the field of critical Indigenous studies, I suggest that the developing idea of a right to the rural may be incommensurable with movements for Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and decolonization. I chart three sources of potential incommensura…
Indigenous Cultural Landscapes
Geographic scholarship on landscape and colonialism has not substantially engaged with the specific logics of settler colonialism, propelling recent calls to “unlearn” and “decolonize” landscape studies. This article highlights the Indigenous cultural landscape (ICL), a policy tool used since the 1990s to protect aboriginal landscapes globally, as a vital resource for geographers interested in decolonizing both material landscapes and landscape s…
Suburban Restaurants as Evolving Suburban Anchors
Examining the historical evolution of the Sportsmen’s Lodge, a restaurant and banquet facility located on Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley, this essay argues that suburban restaurants have served as vital “suburban anchors” facilitating suburban growth and place-making. Established in the 1920s as a recreational fishing concession for the film industry, the Sportsmen’s Lodge expanded to become a renowned restaurant and banqu…
Mobilities and Ethnic Studies
Following the publication of a 2022 special issue in the journal Mobilities, several of the contributing authors and editors gathered virtually on July 26, 2022. Drawing upon the work included w the collection called "Mobilizing Indigeneity and Race Within and Against Settler Colonialism," the participants discuss how they came to the subject of mobilities, how this concept impacts their work, and the ways it intersects with the fields of Ethnic …
Introduction to the special issue
Carpio, Barnd, and Barraclough introduce the concepts of ‘settler anchoring’ and ‘mobility sovereignty.’ They argue that settler colonial spaces are structures of mobility injustice, and that securing Indigenous mobility must account for the ability of Indigenous peoples to choose when, where, how, and for what purposes to engage in movement (or not). They illustrate how the practice of mobility underlies the fiction of ‘settling,’ offer examples…
Mexican American Masculinities on Reality TV
This essay examines the treatment of Mexican American masculinities on Los Cowboys, an internet-based reality TV show that followed a team of charros (Mexican cowboys) from Los Angeles as they prepared to compete in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Though it aired for only two seasons (2015-16), Los Cowboys was a landmark achievement because it used the genre-specific techniques of reality TV to represent the diversity, complexity, and contradiction…
A People's Guide to Los Angeles
A People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. They introduce us to people and events usually ignored by mainstream media and, in the process, create a fresh history of Los Angeles. Roughly dividing the city into six regions—North Los Angeles,…
Native Space
Natchee Blu Barnd. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2017. xi and 232 pp., maps, photos, illustrations, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-87071-902-8).In recent years, settl
Charros
Wrangling Settler Colonialism in the Urban U.S. West
This article contributes to geographical scholarship on settler colonialism by exploring its urban valences in the U.S. West. Urban development in the U.S. West has long been guided by ideologies of the cowboy and frontier, which seek to explain and justify settler occupation of indigenous and Mexican land. Produced overwhelmingly in cities, frontier narratives have shaped urban landscapes and organized urban industries in powerful ways. As a res…
The Western Spirit of '76
This article explores the dynamics of bicentennial planning and celebration in the Mountain West. Amid the charged political climate of the 1960s and 1970s, the Bicentennial facilitated the emergence of a western version of conservative multiculturalism, which adopts the language of diversity and inclusion without changing structures of power.
Zapotecs on the move
In Zapotecs on the move, Cruz-Manjarrez uses ethnographic methods to examine the impact of international migration on the indigenous Zapotec community of Yalálag in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, as ...
Horse tripping
Conflicts over animal practices have long been used to construct dynamics of power. This essay examines how debates over immigrant animal practices contribute to the production of immigrant 'illegality' in the contemporary USA. I examine laws banning the 'horse tripping' events of the Mexican rodeo enacted in California (1994) and Arizona (2009), situating these laws and related media coverage within the broader landscape of exclusionary anti-imm…
Is There Also a Right to the Countryside
Globalization and the Urban Public Sphere
Contested Cowboys
While most studies of Mexican American suburbanization since the 1970s focus on the transformation of residential (private) space, it is in suburban public space that some of the most important struggles over belonging and rights have occurred. This article builds a theoretical framework to analyze the relationships between public space, democracy, and cultural citizenship for historically marginalized groups in suburbia. It applies the framework…
Making the San Fernando Valley
In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley--home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles--Laura R. Barraclough combines ambitious historical sweep with an on-theground investigation of contemporary life in this iconic suburb. She is particularly intrigued by the Valley's many rural elements, such as dirt roads, tack-and-feed stores, horse-keeping districts, citrus groves, and movie ranches. Far from natural or undev…
Geography, pedagogy and politics
This Forum takes seriously the proposition that everything we do as geographers is potentially `relevant' to the affairs of the wider society. Using expanded conceptions of `pedagogy' and `politics', the Forum suggests why and how we are always engaged in processes of shaping and steering this wider society, wittingly or not, and intentionally or not. In the minds of many of us, this shaping and steering only (or mostly) occurs through activities…
Whiteness
Garner, Steve , Whiteness: An Introduction . New York : Routledge , 2007 . ISBN 978-0-415-40364-1 ( paperback ) Sociologist Steve Garner's Whiteness: An Introduction brings together the sophisticated and integrated reflections of a scholar with longstanding commitments to the field of whiteness studies and to anti-racism. Garner envisions whiteness as a problematic, or an analytical perspective—that is, a way of formulating questions about social…
Rural Urbanism
This article examines how the local production of Westerns shaped the postwar racial geography of Los Angeles s suburban San Fernando Valley. White suburban activists drew upon the ideologies about rural land that Westerns promoted and forged political coalitions with the mythmakers who crafted them to secure privileged land-use policies, resist residential integration, and justify white flight.
City of Promise
Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy
Geography, pedagogy and politics
This Forum takes seriously the proposition that everything we do as geographers is potentially `relevant' to the affairs of the wider society. Using expanded conceptions of `pedagogy' and `politics', the Forum suggests why and how we are always engaged in processes of shaping and steering this wider society, wittingly or not, and intentionally or not. In the minds of many of us, this shaping and steering only (or mostly) occurs through activities…
Introduction to the special issue
Carpio, Barnd, and Barraclough introduce the concepts of ‘settler anchoring’ and ‘mobility sovereignty.’ They argue that settler colonial spaces are structures of mobility injustice, and that securing Indigenous mobility must account for the ability of Indigenous peoples to choose when, where, how, and for what purposes to engage in movement (or not). They illustrate how the practice of mobility underlies the fiction of ‘settling,’ offer examples…
Is There Also a Right to the Countryside
Wrangling Settler Colonialism in the Urban U.S. West
This article contributes to geographical scholarship on settler colonialism by exploring its urban valences in the U.S. West. Urban development in the U.S. West has long been guided by ideologies of the cowboy and frontier, which seek to explain and justify settler occupation of indigenous and Mexican land. Produced overwhelmingly in cities, frontier narratives have shaped urban landscapes and organized urban industries in powerful ways. As a res…
Charros
Zapotecs on the move
In Zapotecs on the move, Cruz-Manjarrez uses ethnographic methods to examine the impact of international migration on the indigenous Zapotec community of Yalálag in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, as ...
Horse tripping
Conflicts over animal practices have long been used to construct dynamics of power. This essay examines how debates over immigrant animal practices contribute to the production of immigrant 'illegality' in the contemporary USA. I examine laws banning the 'horse tripping' events of the Mexican rodeo enacted in California (1994) and Arizona (2009), situating these laws and related media coverage within the broader landscape of exclusionary anti-imm…
Indigenous Cultural Landscapes
Geographic scholarship on landscape and colonialism has not substantially engaged with the specific logics of settler colonialism, propelling recent calls to “unlearn” and “decolonize” landscape studies. This article highlights the Indigenous cultural landscape (ICL), a policy tool used since the 1990s to protect aboriginal landscapes globally, as a vital resource for geographers interested in decolonizing both material landscapes and landscape s…
From rights to relations with the rural
This commentary responds to Van Sant and Fairbairn's invitation to consider the meanings, potentials, and pitfalls of land access struggles in settler colonial contexts. Drawing on teachings from the field of critical Indigenous studies, I suggest that the developing idea of a right to the rural may be incommensurable with movements for Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and decolonization. I chart three sources of potential incommensura…
The Western Spirit of '76
This article explores the dynamics of bicentennial planning and celebration in the Mountain West. Amid the charged political climate of the 1960s and 1970s, the Bicentennial facilitated the emergence of a western version of conservative multiculturalism, which adopts the language of diversity and inclusion without changing structures of power.
Radicalising Teaching and Tourism
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy
City of Promise
Geography, pedagogy and politics
This Forum takes seriously the proposition that everything we do as geographers is potentially `relevant' to the affairs of the wider society. Using expanded conceptions of `pedagogy' and `politics', the Forum suggests why and how we are always engaged in processes of shaping and steering this wider society, wittingly or not, and intentionally or not. In the minds of many of us, this shaping and steering only (or mostly) occurs through activities…
Whiteness
Garner, Steve , Whiteness: An Introduction . New York : Routledge , 2007 . ISBN 978-0-415-40364-1 ( paperback ) Sociologist Steve Garner's Whiteness: An Introduction brings together the sophisticated and integrated reflections of a scholar with longstanding commitments to the field of whiteness studies and to anti-racism. Garner envisions whiteness as a problematic, or an analytical perspective—that is, a way of formulating questions about social…
Rural Urbanism
This article examines how the local production of Westerns shaped the postwar racial geography of Los Angeles s suburban San Fernando Valley. White suburban activists drew upon the ideologies about rural land that Westerns promoted and forged political coalitions with the mythmakers who crafted them to secure privileged land-use policies, resist residential integration, and justify white flight.
Making the San Fernando Valley
In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley--home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles--Laura R. Barraclough combines ambitious historical sweep with an on-theground investigation of contemporary life in this iconic suburb. She is particularly intrigued by the Valley's many rural elements, such as dirt roads, tack-and-feed stores, horse-keeping districts, citrus groves, and movie ranches. Far from natural or undev…
Globalization and the Urban Public Sphere
Contested Cowboys
While most studies of Mexican American suburbanization since the 1970s focus on the transformation of residential (private) space, it is in suburban public space that some of the most important struggles over belonging and rights have occurred. This article builds a theoretical framework to analyze the relationships between public space, democracy, and cultural citizenship for historically marginalized groups in suburbia. It applies the framework…
Is There Also a Right to the Countryside
Zapotecs on the move
In Zapotecs on the move, Cruz-Manjarrez uses ethnographic methods to examine the impact of international migration on the indigenous Zapotec community of Yalálag in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, as ...
Horse tripping
Conflicts over animal practices have long been used to construct dynamics of power. This essay examines how debates over immigrant animal practices contribute to the production of immigrant 'illegality' in the contemporary USA. I examine laws banning the 'horse tripping' events of the Mexican rodeo enacted in California (1994) and Arizona (2009), situating these laws and related media coverage within the broader landscape of exclusionary anti-imm…
The Western Spirit of '76
This article explores the dynamics of bicentennial planning and celebration in the Mountain West. Amid the charged political climate of the 1960s and 1970s, the Bicentennial facilitated the emergence of a western version of conservative multiculturalism, which adopts the language of diversity and inclusion without changing structures of power.
Wrangling Settler Colonialism in the Urban U.S. West
This article contributes to geographical scholarship on settler colonialism by exploring its urban valences in the U.S. West. Urban development in the U.S. West has long been guided by ideologies of the cowboy and frontier, which seek to explain and justify settler occupation of indigenous and Mexican land. Produced overwhelmingly in cities, frontier narratives have shaped urban landscapes and organized urban industries in powerful ways. As a res…
A People's Guide to Los Angeles
A People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. They introduce us to people and events usually ignored by mainstream media and, in the process, create a fresh history of Los Angeles. Roughly dividing the city into six regions—North Los Angeles,…
Native Space
Natchee Blu Barnd. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2017. xi and 232 pp., maps, photos, illustrations, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-87071-902-8).In recent years, settl
Charros
Mexican American Masculinities on Reality TV
This essay examines the treatment of Mexican American masculinities on Los Cowboys, an internet-based reality TV show that followed a team of charros (Mexican cowboys) from Los Angeles as they prepared to compete in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Though it aired for only two seasons (2015-16), Los Cowboys was a landmark achievement because it used the genre-specific techniques of reality TV to represent the diversity, complexity, and contradiction…
Introduction to the special issue
Carpio, Barnd, and Barraclough introduce the concepts of ‘settler anchoring’ and ‘mobility sovereignty.’ They argue that settler colonial spaces are structures of mobility injustice, and that securing Indigenous mobility must account for the ability of Indigenous peoples to choose when, where, how, and for what purposes to engage in movement (or not). They illustrate how the practice of mobility underlies the fiction of ‘settling,’ offer examples…
Suburban Restaurants as Evolving Suburban Anchors
Examining the historical evolution of the Sportsmen’s Lodge, a restaurant and banquet facility located on Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley, this essay argues that suburban restaurants have served as vital “suburban anchors” facilitating suburban growth and place-making. Established in the 1920s as a recreational fishing concession for the film industry, the Sportsmen’s Lodge expanded to become a renowned restaurant and banqu…
Mobilities and Ethnic Studies
Following the publication of a 2022 special issue in the journal Mobilities, several of the contributing authors and editors gathered virtually on July 26, 2022. Drawing upon the work included w the collection called "Mobilizing Indigeneity and Race Within and Against Settler Colonialism," the participants discuss how they came to the subject of mobilities, how this concept impacts their work, and the ways it intersects with the fields of Ethnic …
From rights to relations with the rural
This commentary responds to Van Sant and Fairbairn's invitation to consider the meanings, potentials, and pitfalls of land access struggles in settler colonial contexts. Drawing on teachings from the field of critical Indigenous studies, I suggest that the developing idea of a right to the rural may be incommensurable with movements for Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and decolonization. I chart three sources of potential incommensura…
Indigenous Cultural Landscapes
Geographic scholarship on landscape and colonialism has not substantially engaged with the specific logics of settler colonialism, propelling recent calls to “unlearn” and “decolonize” landscape studies. This article highlights the Indigenous cultural landscape (ICL), a policy tool used since the 1990s to protect aboriginal landscapes globally, as a vital resource for geographers interested in decolonizing both material landscapes and landscape s…
Stakeholder expectations for future mountain forests
Climate change is altering the dynamics of ecosystem services provided by mountain forests, with social responses to changes (e.g., management) influencing their future availability and supply. However, research specifically targeting stakeholder expectations of future mountain forests and their ecosystem services has thus far not been addressed. However, this is required to foster sustainable management approaches in the future. In our study, we…
Moving Away from Settler Colonialism in the Classroom
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