While research demonstrates how Indigenous populations have been disproportionately affected by the global nuclear production complex, less attention has been given to tactics that have successfully resisted such projects. Danielle Endres's Nuclear Decolonization shifts the conversation around nuclear colonialism in important ways, offering an account of how the Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute, and Skull Valley Goshute peoples and nations prevented two high-level nuclear waste sites from being built on their lands.
Using a decolonial approach, Endres highlights two sets of rhetorical tactics--Indigenous Lands rhetorics and national interest rhetorics--used to fight nuclear colonialism. The book reframes nuclear decolonization as fundamentally a struggle for the return of Indigenous lands while also revealing how Native activists selectively move between Indigenous nationhood and US citizenship in order to resist settler decision-making. Working at the intersection of Indigenous antinuclear advocacy, Indigenized environmental justice, and decolonization, Nuclear Decolonization centers Native activism and voices while amplifying the power and resilience of Indigenous peoples and nations.
While research demonstrates how Indigenous populations have been disproportionately affected by the global nuclear production complex, less attention has been given to tactics that have successfully resisted such projects. Danielle Endres's Nuclear Decolonization shifts the conversation around nuclear colonialism in important ways, offering an account of how the Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute, and Skull Valley Goshute peoples and nations prevented two high-level nuclear waste sites from being built on their lands.
Using a decolonial approach, Endres highlights two sets of rhetorical tactics--Indigenous Lands rhetorics and national interest rhetorics--used to fight nuclear colonialism. The book reframes nuclear decolonization as fundamentally a struggle for the return of Indigenous lands while also revealing how Native activists selectively move between Indigenous nationhood and US citizenship in order to resist settler decision-making. Working at the intersection of Indigenous antinuclear advocacy, Indigenized environmental justice, and decolonization, Nuclear Decolonization centers Native activism and voices while amplifying the power and resilience of Indigenous peoples and nations.
Danielle Endres is Professor of Communication and Director of the Environmental Humanities Program at the University of Utah. In addition to Nuclear Decolonization, she is the author of Participatory Critical Rhetoric: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Studying Rhetoric in Situ.
"[Endres's] work serves as an example for future cultural
rhetorical research. Scholars of such fields as cultural rhetorics,
second language writing, translingual writing, and others can build
upon the conclusions Endres provides as well as rely on the
methodologies and analyses in their own research. Such additions to
the field of rhetoric and composition offer significant
opportunities for diversifying our voices and the ideas we value
and share." --Justin G. Whitney, Constellations
"Based on years of encounters with communities and individuals,
Nuclear Decolonization is an exemplar of both localized case
studies and broader critiques of racism, nuclearism, and
colonialism--all while demonstrating care and respect for subject
matter, people, and culture." --Stephen Depoe, coeditor of Breaking
Boundaries: Innovative Practices in Environmental Communication and
Public Participation
"Graduate students and early-career scholars invested in
environmental justice and environmental communication will find
[Nuclear Decolonization] an uplifting read ... This is a refreshing
book that likely will bring hope and (re)motivate many scholars,
artists, practitioners, and teachers invested in nuclear studies,
environmental communication, environmental studies, rhetorical
studies, Indigenous studies, and more." --Joanne C. Marras Tate,
Environmental Communication
"Endres's book is a high-water mark of decolonial work in the field
of rhetorical studies and critical-cultural studies in
communication. It is a primer on the terms of decolonization,
theories of decoloniality, and ways to study these concepts through
responsible attention to Indigenous voices, providing inroads to
unsettling Western perspectives and anchoring Indigenous
scholarship." --Jason Edward Black, coauthor of Mascot Nation: The
Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports
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