Landscapes of power : politics of energy in the Navajo nation

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Landscapes of power : politics of energy in the Navajo nation / Dana E. Powell.

Powell, Dana E., 1973- (author.).

Summary:

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. -- From back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9780822369882
ISBN: 0822369885
ISBN: 9780822369943
ISBN: 082236994X
ISBN: 9780822372295
ISBN: 0822372290
Physical Description: xxii, 309 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Introduction changing climates of colonialism -- Every Navajo has an anthro -- Extractive legacies: histories of Diné power -- The rise of energy activism -- Solar power in Klagetoh -- Sovereignty's interdependencies -- Contesting expertise -- Artifacts of energy futures -- Off-grid in the Chuskas -- Conversions -- Vitalities.