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Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country

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Description for Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 21. BIC Classification: 1KB; KNAT; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 540.

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.

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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.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
362g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816692675
SKU
V9780816692675
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Ref
99-50

About Traci Brynne Voyles
Traci Brynne Voyles is assistant professor of women’s studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Reviews for Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
"Wastelanding is simply a brilliant book. It is at once a beautifully written, rigorously researched and hauntingly moving account of U.S. settler colonialism’s violent making of racialized bodies and degraded landscapes in the U.S. Southwest. Traci Brynne Voyles draws together a rich set of critical approaches and weaves them into what will be the new bar for environmental politics."—Jake Kosek, University of California, ... Read more

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