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Author Kuletz, Valerie

Title The tainted desert : environmental ruin in the American West / Valerie L. Kuletz
Published New York : Routledge, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations/Maps; Legend of Map Symbols; List of Acronyms; Preface; Acknowledgments; ONE: Mapping the Nuclear Landscape; 1. Introduction; Mapping the Invisible Nuclear Landscape; Interlocking Desires: Science, Industry, and the Military; 2. Tragedy at the Center of the Universe; The Uranium Story; Science as a Mechanism of Exclusion; The Global Picture; 3. Science Cities in the Desert; Outdoor Laboratories and Theaters of War; Zones of Concentration on the Nuclear Landscape; Zone One; Zone Two
4. Nuclear WastelandThe Nuclear Legacy; Confusion in the Field: Problems with the Nuclear Industry and Its Regulation; Nuclear Waste and Indigenous Communities; Deep-Geologic Repositories: The Yucca Mountain Project and WIPP; Monitored Retrievable Storage Sites; Low-Level Nuclear Waste: Ward Valley and the Mojave's Indigenous Peoples; The Nuclear Waste Crisis in Context; TWO: Power, Representation, and Cultural Politics at Yucca Mountain; 5. The View from Yucca Mountain; Perspectives and Boundaries; Perceptions of Nature and Their Material Consequences; Protest at the Margins
6. Cultural PoliticsIndian Perspectives on Yucca Mountain Cultural Resource Studies; Tribal Representation in Cultural Studies; Removal of Artifacts, Removal of Presence; Different Ways of Knowing; 7. The Country of Lost Borders; A Historical Sketch; 8. Aboriginal Homeland; The Cultural Politics of Difference; Indian Geography and Mythopoetic Knowledge; Inter subjectivity and Ecological Ethos; (Re)Assembling Knowledge; 9. The Experimental Landscape; Intellectual Precursors to the Experiment at Yucca Mountain: Ecology, Energy, and Radiation
Managing the System: The Yucca Mountain Project and the Technology of Knowing10. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-329) and index
Subject Indians of North America -- Nevada.
Nuclear weapons -- Nevada -- Testing.
Radioactive waste disposal -- Environmental aspects -- Nevada
Indians of North America -- West (U.S.)
Nuclear weapons -- West (U.S.) -- Testing
Radioactive waste disposal -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Indians of North America
Nuclear weapons -- Testing
Radioactive waste disposal -- Environmental aspects
Nevada
West United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97034594
ISBN 9781134954261
1134954263