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The Tainted Desert: Environmental Ruin in the American West | 
 enlarge | Author: Valerie Kuletz
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 160077
Media: Paperback
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0415917719
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.17990978
EAN: 9780415917711
ASIN: 0415917719
Publication Date: April 1998
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This text maps the nuclear landscapes of the US inter-desert southwest, a land sacrificed to the Cold-War arms race and nuclear energy policy. Valerie Kuletz documents in detail the consequences of these policies on the southwestern land and its native peoples. Consequently, a double exposure emerges of one landscape superimposed upon another: a landscape of national sacrifice over what many Americans understand as a geography of the sacred. Kuletz investigates how culture influences both native and scientific representations of nature as well as strategies for managing the relationship between nature and human society. The author draws on interviews with the Native Americans affected by nuclear activity while using mapping strategies, textual analysis and an ethnoecological approach to document the zones of national sacrificial land.
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One of the most important books on the environment. November 25, 1998
John M. Bradley (DeKalb, IL USA)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
For anyone who is at all interested in the environment, or the American West, or issues of nuclear waste, this book is a must. Kuletz does something that is lacking in our radio, t.v., news magazine, and newspaper reports on environmental issues--she reveals the cultural biases in our Western, "objective" perspective. She also listens and presents the testimony of Native Americans on their desert homelands. This belongs on the bookshelf with Rachel Carson's _Silent Spring_ and Carole Gallagher's _American Ground Zero_.
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