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Wastelanding : legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country / Traci Brynne Voyles.
Author
Voyles, Traci Brynne
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Description
xv, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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E99.N3 V69 2015
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Subject(s)
Navajo Indians
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Government relations
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History
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20th century
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Navajo Indians
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Health and hygiene
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History
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20th century
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Uranium mines and mining
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Political aspects
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Southwest, New
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History
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20th century
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Uranium mines and mining
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Social aspects
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Southwest, New
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History
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20th century
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Radiation
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Health aspects
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Southwest, New
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History
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20th century
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Indigenous peoples of North America
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Medicine
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History
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20th century
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Navajo Indian Reservation
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History
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20th century
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Indigenous Studies
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Summary note
"Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U.S. nuclear weapons and energy programs. By 1942, mines on the reservation were the main source of uranium for the top-secret Manhattan Project. Today, the Navajo Nation is home to more than a thousand abandoned uranium sites. Radiation-related diseases are endemic, claiming the health and lives of former miners and nonminers alike. Traci Brynne Voyles argues that the presence of uranium mining on Diné (Navajo) land constitutes a clear case of environmental racism. Looking at discursive constructions of landscapes, she explores how environmental racism develops over time. For Voyles, the "wasteland," where toxic materials are excavated, exploited, and dumped, is both a racial and a spatial signifier that renders an environment and the bodies that inhabit it pollutable. Because environmental inequality is inherent in the way industrialism operates, the wasteland is the "other" through which modern industrialism is established. In examining the history of wastelanding in Navajo country, Voyles provides "an environmental justice history" of uranium mining, revealing how just as "civilization" has been defined on and through "savagery," environmental privilege is produced by portraying other landscapes as marginal, worthless, and pollutable"--The publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface: In search of treasure
Introduction: Sacrificial land
Empty except for Indians : early impressions of Navajo rangeland
Prospecting for magic ore in America's new frontier
Cowboys and Indians in Navajo country
Hot spots: justice, power, and gender in the radioactive present
Monsters and mountains: competing geographies of uranium
The big hurt: boom and bust on contested ground
Conclusion. Zombie mines: the future of uranium and Native sovereignty.
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Legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country
ISBN
9780816692644 ((hc ; : alk. paper))
0816692645 ((hc ; : alk. paper))
9780816692675 ((pb ; : alk. paper))
081669267X ((pb ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2014028049
OCLC
894746316
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