Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country

by Traci Brynne Voyles

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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 show more thousand abandoned uranium sites. show less

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I enjoyed this book, though I have to think through her theoretical framework more to see if I really think it is effective in what she wants it to do? Otherwise I think it's a creative way of thinking through these issues, and does good work in linking larger narratives of the height of nuclear activity. The chapter on gender was really great, especially in the ways it linked the perceived femininity of the past and the future as imagined by Diné women, but I think that really was the linchpin of the book and should have been pulled throughout the book rather than being relegated to a single chapter.

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Nonfiction, History, Science & Nature, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Art & Design
DDC/MDS
979.1004History & geographyHistory of North AmericaGreat Basin and Pacific Slope region of United StatesArizona
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E99 .N3 .V69History of the United StatesAmericaIndians of North AmericaIndian tribes and cultures
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