Powell Dana E. Powell

Landscapes of Power (eBook, PDF)

Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation

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Produktbeschreibung

In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell examines the rise and fall of the controversial Desert Rock Power Plant initiative in New Mexico to trace the political conflicts surrounding native sovereignty and contemporary energy development on Navajo (Dine) Nation land. Powell's historical and ethnographic account shows how the coal-fired power plant project's defeat provided the basis for redefining the legacies of colonialism, mineral extraction, and environmentalism. Examining the labor of activists, artists, politicians, elders, technicians, and others, Powell emphasizes the generative potential of Navajo resistance to articulate a vision of autonomy in the face of twenty-first-century colonial conditions. Ultimately, Powell situates local Navajo struggles over energy technology and infrastructure within broader sociocultural life, debates over global climate change, and tribal, federal, and global politics of extraction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372295
• Artikelnr.: 54793355

Autorenporträt

Dana Powell is Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Humanities in Medicine at Taipei Medical University, Affiliate Faculty in the College of Indigenous Studies at National Dong Hwa University, and Research Associate at the Institute for Environment, Energy, and Economics at Appalachian State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Arrivals  xi
Acknowledgments  xvii
List of Abbreviations  xxi
Introduction. Changing Climates of Colonialism  1
Interlude 1. Every Navajo Has an Anthro  19
1. Extractive Legacies: Histories of Diné Power   26
2. The Rise of Energy Activism  64
Interlude 2. Solar Power in Klagetoh  108
3. Sovereignty's Interdependencies  113
4. Contesting Expertise: Public Hearings on Desert Rock  149
5. Artifacts of Energy Futures  187
Interlude 3. Off-Grid in the Chuskas  230
Conclusion. Conversions  236
Epilogue. Vitalities  253
Notes  257
References  283
Index