{"product_id":"wastelanding-legacies-of-uranium-mining-in-navajo-country-paperback-softback-9780816692675","title":"Wastelanding; Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816692675","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWastelanding\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLegacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTraci Brynne Voyles (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816692675\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 May 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 21\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.386 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWastelanding\u003c\/i\u003e 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, Berkeley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This groundbreaking book examines how race, gender, and nature coproduce one another through ‘wastelanding.’ Voyles’ masterful account explains how colonization, racialization, and resource extraction work together to produce sacrifice zones. She connects history, geography, Native American Studies, ethnic studies, and women and gender studies in a truly unique contribution to the literature of environmental studies and environmental justice.\"-Julie Sze, University of California, Davis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWastelanding\u003c\/i\u003e is meticulously researched, covers extremely complex events that continue to have dire consequences for Native peoples on the Colorado Plateau in a well-organized discourse, and draws on the work of dozens of other historians and professionals as well as a multitude of source documents.\"-\u003ci\u003eIndian Country Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is a gap in geography in and around meaningfully engagements with Indigenous feminism. There is also a failure amongst radical scholars to place themselves within the landscapes they inhabit. This context of erasure makes Traci Brynne Voyles’ contribution all the more valuable and worthy of a thorough read.\"-\u003ci\u003eAntipode\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Thought-provoking and challenging.\"-\u003ci\u003eTribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWastelanding \u003c\/i\u003eis an often thought-provoking examination of settler colonialism’s impact on the Navajo people and their lands and should appeal to students of Native American history, geography, mining, gender studies, and the environment.\"-\u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sophisticated and insightful.\"-\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A timely and innovative work that applies a multitude of theoretical perspectives with remarkable elasticity to illuminate a critical instance of environmental injustice that is far from isolated.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWastelanding \u003c\/i\u003etells 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTraci 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface: In Search of Treasure\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Sacrificial Land\u003cbr\u003e1. Empty Except for Indians: Early Impressions of Navajo Rangeland\u003cbr\u003e2. Prospecting for Magic Ore in America’s New Frontier\u003cbr\u003e3. Cowboys and Indians in Navajo Country\u003cbr\u003e4. Hot Spots: Justice, Power, and Gender in the Radioactive Present\u003cbr\u003e5. Monsters and Mountains: Competing Geographies of Uranium\u003cbr\u003e6. The Big Hurt: Boom and Bust on Contested Ground\u003cbr\u003eConclusion. Zombie Mines: The Future of Uranium and Native Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52743046005016,"sku":"9780816692675","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/wastelanding-legacies-of-uranium-mining-in-navajo-country-paperback-softback-9780816692675","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}