Powell, Dana E. (Author)
Duke University Press
Edition Details: Book Series: New ecologies for the twenty-first century.
Physical Details: 309
Language: English
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. (Publisher)
...MoreReview James Robert, III Allison (2019) Review of "Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation". American Historical Review (pp. 300-301).
Review Caleb Wellum (October 2020) Review of "Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation". Technology and Culture (pp. 1256-1257).
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