Landscapes of Power - Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation

Dana E. Powell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell takes an historical and ethnographic approach to understanding how a controversial coal power plant slated for development in the Navajo (Diné) Nation was defeated and, in the process of its destruction, generated the conditions for new understandings of indigenous environmentalism to emerge.

Product details

• Authors: Dana E Powell, Dana E. Powell
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9780822369882
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6988-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-F; New Ecologies for the Twenty-first Century; New Ecologies for the Twenty-F
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore