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+Environmental injustice is the new form of settler colonialism pervading modern life. Wastelanding is the process through which discursive injustice becomes concrete |
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+Voyles, Traci 15 Assistant professor of women’s studies at Loyola Marymount University “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country,” University of Minnesota Press. TC |
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+Wastelanding takes two primary forms: the assumption that nonwhite lands are valueless, or valuable only for what can be mined from beneath them, and the subsequent devastation |
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+“abracadabra, hocus-pocus” – systematically stripped of their material and ideological worth. |
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+Production of nuclear power entails white conceptions of progress, results in Indigenous Erasure. First is Paddy Martinez. |
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+Voyles 2, Traci 15 Assistant professor of women’s studies at Loyola Marymount University “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country,” University of Minnesota Press. TC |
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+Paddy Martinez discovered the richest uranium deposit in the country, |
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+He left behind a crudely lettered cardboard sign: “Please don’t take anything out of my place and live along (leave alone) my pig…From Paddy Martinez.” |
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+The Vanishing Indian narrative is yet another way settler colonialism constricts possibilities of Indigenous self-determination. |
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+Voyles 3, Traci 15 Assistant professor of women’s studies at Loyola Marymount University “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country,” University of Minnesota Press. TC |
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+Both of these narratives, that of the vanishing Indian and that of Paddy Martinez |
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+always (and here we insert the qualifier “unfortunately,” like good nostalgic imperialists) decide in favor of progress. |
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+Production of nuclear power only further cemented Indigenous displacement with essentialized histories |
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+Voyles 4, Traci 15 Assistant professor of women’s studies at Loyola Marymount University “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country,” University of Minnesota Press. TC |
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+Much of the language of development on Native land in general and Navajo land in |
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+leaving the reader to wonder who exactly, nurturing woman or young child, is to be bruised. |
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+The Role Of The Ballot is resisting hegemonic discourses. |
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+1. analytic |
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+2. analytic |
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+Thus: |
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+Sovereign nations ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power as an advocacy to challenge settler colonial power and to reverse the reification of the Wasteland. This prolineal genealogy is key to reimagining a future for indigenous life not contingent upon colonial consumption of indigenous identity. |
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+Solvency |
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+Prolineal genealogy as a praxis is the starting point for revolution |
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+Smith, Andrea 08 associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at University of California, Riverside “Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances”. Durham: Duke University Press. https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=fRF6VdH24VwCandprintsec=frontcoverandoutput=readerandsource=gbs_atbandpg=GBS.PR27.w.0.2.0 TC |
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+Justine Smith critiques the prevalent project within Native studies of replacing Western epistemologies and knowledges |
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+but because asking the way is part of the revolutionary process itself’’ (Holloway 2005, 215). |
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+Counter-mapping is prolineal genealogy that undermines notions of territoriality: in reclaiming the land, indigenous activists guard against future environmental desecration |
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+Voyles 5, Traci 15 Assistant professor of women’s studies at Loyola Marymount University “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country,” University of Minnesota Press. TC |
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+Counter-mapping, or marking out indigenous claims over territory and resources, has been a crucial |
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+and away from this part of Dine Bikeyah, well before U.S. acquisition of the Southwest. |
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+Native accounts of the nuclear age constitute a performative genealogy that overturns the supposed objectivity of colonial epistemology |
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+Voyles 6, Traci 15 Assistant professor of women’s studies at Loyola Marymount University “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country,” University of Minnesota Press. TC |
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+Moreover, while the hegemonic story of Paddy |
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+teleologically to, but rather existing in tension with, settler colonialism. |
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+Underview: |
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+Native American studies provide a starting point for deconstructing other Western discourses and solve back for other forms of oppression |
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+Smith 2, Andrea 08 associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at University of California, Riverside “Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances”. Durham: Duke University Press. https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=fRF6VdH24VwCandprintsec=frontcoverandoutput=readerandsource=gbs_atbandpg=GBS.PR27.w.0.2.0 TC |
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+Elizabeth Cook-Lynn argues that Native American studies is not understood as its own intellectual |
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+ These concepts include (1) rearticulation, (2) intellectual ethnography, and (3) generative narratology and prolineal genealogy. |