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'Land, God, and Guns provides a unique view into the lives and struggles of working class white men in the Heartland of the United States. Drawing on critical geography and postcolonial theory, it reveals mundane forms of violence central to settler colonialism that stabilize a region and people typically mythologized in the contemporary political landscape.' Jeffrey Montez de Oca, University of Colorado Colorado

i>'A unique view into the lives and struggles of working class white men in the Heartland of the United States. Drawing on critical geography and postcolonial theory, it reveals mundane forms of violence central to settler colonialism that stabilize a region and people typically mythologized in the contemporary political landscape. * Jeffrey Montez de Oca, University of Colorado * A compassionate dialogue with men in the American heartland, this is a book that needs reading in these urgent and polarizing times. * Sarah de Leeuw, University of Northern British Columbia *

'A unique view into the lives and struggles of working class white men in the Heartland of the United States. Drawing on critical geography and postcolonial theory, it reveals mundane forms of violence central to settler colonialism that stabilize a region and people typically mythologized in the contemporary political landscape.' Jeffrey Montez de Oca, University of Colorado 'A compassionate dialogue with men in the American heartland, this is a book that links place, history, storied narratives, and impassioned sense of identity to deeply felt and emotionally complex convictions about whiteness, gun ownership, masculinity, home, heteronormativity, and family. This is a book that needs reading in these urgent and polarizing times.' Sarah de Leeuw, University of Northern British Columbia

'Land, God, and Guns provides a unique view into the lives and struggles of working class white men in the Heartland of the United States. Drawing on critical geography and postcolonial theory, it reveals mundane forms of violence central to settler colonialism that stabilize a region and people typically mythologized in the contemporary political landscape.' Jeffrey Montez de Oca, University of Colorado Colorado

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Levi Gahman, born and raised in rural Kansas, currently works in the Power, Space, and Cultural Change unit at the University of Liverpool's Department of Geography and remains a researcher with the University of the West Indies' Institute for Gender and Development Studies. His areas of focus include anti-racist and anti-colonial praxis, critical development studies, gender justice, and autonomous social movements. Along the way, he has spent time as a sawmill laborer, farmhand, warehouse worker, substance abuse counselor, trauma therapist, disability services associate, human rights observer, and solidarity brigade member. Levi is also editor of the journal ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.

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