Traci Brynne Voyles: Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country

Excerpt: Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country (2015) by Dr. Traci Voyles is an ambitious ethnographic attempt to braid the history of uranium mining on Navajo land (Diné Bikéyah) with settler-colonialism and feminist theory. Voyles traces the origin of uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau in the four-corners region of the Southwestern United States from the late 19th century to the present.