Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting (New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality)

Endres, Danielle

ISBN 10: 0814258913 / ISBN 13: 9780814258910

Published by Ohio State University Press, 2023

In. Seller Inventory # ria9780814258910_new

Synopsis:

Honorable Mention, 2024 NCA Public Address Division’s Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award
Honorable Mention, 2025 Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine Book Award

While research demonstrates how Indigenous populations have been disproportionately affected by the global nuclear production complex, less attention has been given to tactics that have successfully resisted such projects. Danielle Endres’s Nuclear Decolonization shifts the conversation around nuclear colonialism in important ways, offering an account of how the Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute, and Skull Valley Goshute peoples and nations prevented two high-level nuclear waste sites from being built on their lands.

Using a decolonial approach, Endres highlights two sets of rhetorical tactics—Indigenous Lands rhetorics and national interest rhetorics—used to fight nuclear colonialism. The book reframes nuclear decolonization as fundamentally a struggle for the return of Indigenous lands while also revealing how Native activists selectively move between Indigenous nationhood and US citizenship in order to resist settler decision-making. Working at the intersection of Indigenous antinuclear advocacy, Indigenized environmental justice, and decolonization, Nuclear Decolonization centers Native activism and voices while amplifying the power and resilience of Indigenous peoples and nations.

About the Author: Danielle Endres is Professor of Communication and Director of the Environmental Humanities Program at the University of Utah. In addition to Nuclear Decolonization, she is the author of Participatory Critical Rhetoric: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Studying Rhetoric in Situ.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous ...
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New