Animist Intersubjectivity as Argumentation: Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute Arguments Against a Nuclear Waste Site at Yucca Mountain

Endres, Danielle

doi:10.1007/s10503-012-9271-x

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“…These indigenous artworks reflect an ontology in which nonhumans, effigy mounds, and even features that government experts and some Land Artists treat as inert natural objects, are not dead, but lively. For example, Yucca Mountain, the proposed container for civilian nuclear waste, while not a human construct, is understood by Shoshone and Paiute people who historically have lived in relation to it as alive, some naming it with terms that can be glossed in English as "Serpent Swimming West" (Endres 2013). The placement of radioactive waste within the depths of Yucca Mountain, selected as a geologically inert feature from the perspective of US agencies, will actually poison a living being, indigenous critics argue (Endres 2012;Zabarte 2002).…”

Section: Reclaiming Landscape: Indigenous Artistsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toxic Heritage

Kryder–Reid¹,

May²

2023

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Toxic Heritage addresses the heritage value of contamination and toxic sites and provides the first in-depth examination of toxic heritage as a global issue.Bringing together case studies, visual essays, and substantive chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume provides a critical framing of the globally expanding field of toxic heritage. Authors from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and methodologies examine toxic heritage as both a material phenomenon and a concept. Organized into five thematic sections, the book explores the meaning and significance of toxic heritage, politics, narratives, affected communities, and activist approaches and interventions. It identifies critical issues and highlights areas of emerging research on the intersections of environmental harm with formal and informal memory practices, while also highlighting the resilience, advocacy, and creativity of communities, scholars, and heritage professionals in responding to the current environmental crises.Toxic Heritage is useful and relevant to scholars and students working across a range of disciplines, including heritage studies, environmental science, archaeology, anthropology, and geography.

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Section: Reclaiming Landscape: Indigenous Artistsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toxic Heritage

Kryder–Reid¹,

May²

2023

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“…Many in modern American society think of the desert as “a dry, lifeless, unforgiving wasteland that most of civilized society does its best to avoid” (Hager ). This depiction of the landscape as aesthetically bankrupt justifies the treatment of the desert as a site for toxic activities, especially nuclear mining, testing, and dumping (Endres ). These activities, in turn, have “tainted” the desert, turning it into not only a perceived aesthetic wasteland, but a materially toxic one as well (Kuletz ).…”

Section: Aesthetics As Preservation and Wastementioning

confidence: 99%

Complicating Aesthetic Environmentalism: Four Criticisms of Aesthetic Motivations for Environmental Action

Stewart

Johnson

2018

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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This article engages in debates about the potential for aesthetics to be a positive, ethical, and moral frame for relating to the environment. Human-environment relations are increasingly tied up with aesthetics. We problematize this trend by contending that aesthetics is an insufficient paradigm to motivate and shape environmentalism because it exceptionalizes some landscapes while devaluing others. This article uses four illustrative case studies to complicate aesthetic environmentalist frames. These case studies indicate that even when positive aesthetic qualities are deployed in environmentalist advocacy, their usefulness is mitigated by a range of factors including: sensationalization, obfuscation, and further degradation.

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“…Fill (2001) describes ‘ecolinguistics’ as the study of ‘languages in their environments’ and ‘language and environmental problems’ (Bednarek and Caple, 2010: 8–9). In contributing to the latter line of work, we join a growing number of scholars who study environmental discourse in situated contexts (Endres, 2012; Hugh-Jones and Madill, 2009; Lindeman, 2013; Stamou and Paraskevopolous, 2008; Usher, 2013; Waddell, 1996; Yamaguchi, 2007), in particular in mediated environments (Killingsworth and Palmer, 1992a; McIlvenny, 2009; Sonnett et al, 2006). In a synthesis of literature on environmental discourse, Mühlhaüsler and Peace (2006) conclude that environmental discourses are most often anthropocentric and concerned with the local (p. 471).…”

Section: Environmental Discourse In the Media: Proximity And Representationmentioning

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Proximity and journalistic practice in environmental discourse: Experiencing ‘job blackmail’ in the news

Johnstone

Mando

2014

Discourse & Communication

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The shift from coal to natural gas to fuel electricity generation has positive (environmental) and negative (economic) consequences for people in the affected areas of the US. Representations of the situation in the media shape how citizens understand and respond to it. We explore the role of proximity in media discourse about the closing of a coal-fired power plant near Waynesburg, a small city in a Pennsylvania coal-mining region. Comparing reporting in smaller-circulation newspapers closer to the site with reporting in larger-circulation regional newspapers, we find that Waynesburg-area papers simply describe the events leading to the closure while regional papers analyze the events in larger contexts, and that politicians, not the plant owners, are represented as blaming environmentalists for job loss. Our findings point to the importance of proximity in environmental discourse and to the need to examine not only what kinds of discourse circulate, but also how and to whom.

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Animist Intersubjectivity as Argumentation: Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute Arguments Against a Nuclear Waste Site at Yucca Mountain

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Toxic Heritage

Toxic Heritage

Complicating Aesthetic Environmentalism: Four Criticisms of Aesthetic Motivations for Environmental Action

Proximity and journalistic practice in environmental discourse: Experiencing ‘job blackmail’ in the news

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