CLUSTER 20B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Settler Colonialism, Reproductive Justice, Developing Country
Document Summary
Voyles, traci "monsters and mountains: competing geographies of uranium," wastelanding: legacies of uranium mining in navajo country. In many ways it accumulates to the way we view land. In the native views, and most importantly practice, land is a relative and is entrusted to us not for the present but for future generations. In western view it is a resource and used for development. Yet as a tribal councils continue to reproduce nation state ideas of property, then land becomes a resource to develop at expoense of future genrations. Poverty and lack of employment while changing subsistence living. Differing concepts or epistemologies of what land means as seen in simpson reading. The wasteland is a racial and spatial signifier that rendes an environement and the bodies that inhabit it pollutable. Policy or practice that differentially affects of disadvantages (intentionally or intentially) individuals, groups, or communities systematically because of their race and/or class.
