Chapter 7. Uranium Mining in New Mexico: Global Entanglements, Earth Relations and Awkward Ways

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Introduction. Timescapes of Extraction 1
5. Chapter 1. Frontier Spaces in the Arctic and the Andes: The Miner, the Smuggler and Performances of (Post-)Extractivism 21
6. Chapter 2. Technological Promises of ‘Green’ Extractivism in Historical Minescapes: Narratives and Materiality of the Mining Revival in Andalusian Wastelands 45
7. Chapter 3. Unearthing the Buried Past of Brazil’s Former Gold Mines 69
8. Chapter 4. How Industrial and Artisanal Extraction Shape a City: On Urban Planning Flaws, Encroaching Open Pits and Backyard Mining in a Congolese Mining Town 90
9. Chapter 5. Mining Life Cycles and Indigenous Land Dispossession in North America: A View from the American West 113
10. Chapter 6. Contentious Legacies: Post-Mining and Heritage-Making in the Italian Alps 140
11. Chapter 7. Uranium Mining in New Mexico: Global Entanglements, Earth Relations and Awkward Ways 163
12. Afterword. What’s to Come: Mining in a Fevered World 184
13. Index 203