Wastelanding: legacies of uranium mining in navajo country
Auteur :
Voyles, Traci Brynne
Éditeur :
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN :
9780816692675
Date de publication :
15 mai 2015
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 x 3,8 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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,