Wastelanding: Legacies Of Uranium Mining In Navajo Country Traci Brynne Voyles University Minnesota Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Science Environmental

Wastelanding Tells The History Of Uranium Industry On Navajo Land In U S Southwest Asking Why Certain Landscapes And Peoples Who Inhabit Them Come To Be Targeted For Disproportionate Exposure Environmental Harm Mines Mills Nation Have Long Supplied Nuclear Weapons Energy Programs By 1942 Reservation Were Main Source Top-Secret Manhattan Project Today Is Home More Than A Thousand Abandoned Sites Radiation-Related Diseases Are Endemic Claiming Health Lives Former Miners Nonminers Alike Traci Brynne Voyles Argues That Presence Mining Dine (Navajo) Constitutes Clear Case Racism Looking At Discursive Constructions She Explores How Develops Over Time \ Wasteland Where Toxic Materials Excavated Exploited Dumped Both Racial Spatial Signifier Renders An Environment Bodies It Pollutable Because Inequality Inherent Way Industrialism Operates Other\ Through Which Modern Established Examining Country Provides Justice History\ Revealing Just As Civilization\ Has Been Defined Savagery Privilege Produced Portraying Other Marginal Worthless Σελίδες: 304 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm