From American California to Californian America
Internal Transnationalism and Settler-Colonial Expansion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3852465 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathaniel Sikand-Youngs (0000-0003-2416-5144, University of Nottingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 115-135 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14775700.2022.2146415 |
| OpenAlex | W4309862291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 35 |
Transnationalism is largely understood as a cross-national or international phenomenon, but the globalising forces of imperialism, capitalism, and decolonisation also undermine national hegemony from within the nation itself. This underexamined concept of ‘internal transnationalism’ is vital to settler-colonial spaces like California in its early US statehood, where national sovereignty is decoupled from national territory. The transnational implications of western expansion prompted different spatial imaginaries of California under US rule, two of which this article focuses on. James Mason Hutchings in his touristic Hutchings’ California Magazine (1856-1861) - most famous for promoting the Yosemite Valley in its debut issue but critically neglected thereafter - portrays an American California as a ‘pointillist’ geography, in which American sovereignty emanates from myriad colonial outposts rather than being a property of the land itself. After the Civil War, John Wesley Powell and Clarence King, two federal surveyors conventionally seen as scientific adversaries, each pointed towards a bioregional Californian America, where local environmental conditions supersede national sovereignty. Through these case studies, I contend that California as a settler-colonial space cannot be taken for granted as domestically ‘American’, and that California and America instead represent a transnational pairing
Capitalism · Colonialism · Decolonization · Economic history · Hegemony · Mercantilism · National security · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Transnationalism · American Environmental and Regional History · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |