“California Futures is an important revisionist history of the state we call California. Through a powerful range of case studies, Daniel Lanza Rivers demonstrates the many entangled ways that settler colonialism and extractive capitalism have impacted (and continue to impact) the lands, peoples, identities, and futures of ’California.’”—Melissa K. Nelson, Professor of Indigenous Sustainability, Arizona State University
“California Futures is a powerful, transdisciplinary, and generative re-conceptualization of California rooted in a coalitional politics of decolonization, queer ecologies, and climate justice. Daniel Lanza Rivers interrogates the dance of speculation and settlement across multiple temporal and spatial registers to envision the possibilities of life outside the settler racial capitalist state.”—Sarah D. Wald, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and English, University of Oregon
