Contested Sacredness
The Struggle for Bears Ears
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8205306 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brennan Keegan (0000-0001-7075-296X, College of Charleston, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 836-859 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jaarel/lfad033 |
| OpenAlex | W4385411472 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 40 |
Southern Utah and the Four Corners region is home to five Tribal nations, united by shared experiences of settler colonialism and a tie to the landscapes of Bears Ears National Monument. After years of Tribal advocacy to protect the site, President Obama designated the monument under the Antiquities Act in December 2016. A year later, President Trump reduced the 1.35-million-acre national monument by 85 percent to make way for uranium mining, officially sanctifying state control and natural resource extraction. Protests and lawsuits ensued. The legal status of Bears Ears continues to be contested. Religious freedom, capitalism, nationalism, environmental protection, and tourism have coalesced at the site in an example of the production, shift, and conflict of spatial relations. By mapping the constellation of spaces produced by the stakeholders, this article argues that a spatial lens points to moments of overlap and resolution as the case moves forward
Colonialism · Constitution · Nationalism · Natural resource · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Religious Tourism and Spaces
Nature Religion in America
Dispossessing the wilderness
Violence over the Land
Religious Freedom
Space and Place
Contested Terrain
Rethinking Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives
The contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ecological restoration
Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management
Rivers of empire
Wisdom sits in places
Cadillac Desert
To take place
The Transit of Empire
Sacred Places in the Construction of Indigenous Environmentalism
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Alternative Wests
The Gathering of Zion
A Diné History of Navajoland
Thou Shalt Not Misinterpret
The tourist
Wastelanding
Mining Sacred Space
Cultural Landscapes and Traditional Cultural Properties
Stewardship and Enterprise
Custer Died for Your Sins
Settler Colonialism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |