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Record Nr.

UNINA9910860883003321

Autore

Curley Andrew

Titolo

Carbon Sovereignty : Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, AZ : , : University of Arizona Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

0-8165-4867-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 pages)

Disciplina

979.1004/9726

Soggetti

Navajo Indians - Politics and government

Navajo Indians - Government relations

Energy transition

Coal mines and mining

Energy transition - Arizona

Energy transition - Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah

Navajo Indians - Arizona - Politics and government

Coal mines and mining - Arizona

Coal mines and mining - Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah

Navajo Indians - Arizona - Government relations

Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah

Arizona

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- ; 1. Shapeshifting Colonialism and the Origin of Carbon Sovereignty -- ; 2. Carbon Sovereignty -- ; 3. Carbon Treatymaking: The 2013 NGS Lease Renewal -- ; 4. Workers' Perspectives on Coal -- ; 5. Toward Energy Transition -- Conclusion: All That Is Solid Melts into Air.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book tells of the booms and busts with coal in the Navajo Nation. It utilizes a documentation of indigenous contestation over extractive industries in a time of climate change, energy nationalism, and in a post-welfare economy. It is about tribal sovereignty and the meaning of work and cultural survival for the Navajo Nation in the twenty first



century"--