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Wastelanding : legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country /

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....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Voyles, Traci Brynne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.