Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting (New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality) - Softcover
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Honorable Mention, 2024 NCA Public Address Division’s Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award
Honorable Mention, 2025 Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine Book Award
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.
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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.
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Decolonization, in all of its variety, entails courageous but also risky engagements in protecting Indigenous Lands, ways of knowing and being, and traditional lifeways. This book engages with collective, but not homogenous, efforts by Indigenous peoples and nations to resist high-level nuclear waste siting within Native Lands. It relays how Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute, and Skull Valley Goshute peoples and nations—along with allies, strategic coalitions, and other actors—successfully prevented two high-level nuclear waste repositories from being sited within Newe and Nuwuvi Lands in the Great Basin. It offers a story of nuclear decolonization.
Nuclear decolonization refers to Indigenous-led efforts to enact sovereignty and self-determination toward protecting relationships with Lands, lifeways, and sacred practices from nuclear technologies. It is a mode of survivance and radical resurgence. It is an envisioning and enacting of futures for Indigenous peoples and nations without the harms of nuclear technologies, in this case, nuclear waste. It is not only a set of actions but also an Indigenous theory of social change. Nuclear decolonization is a counterstory to nuclear colonization—also termed nuclear colonialism and radioactive colonization—a concept created by Native Lands protectors to describe how convergences of systems of nuclearism and settler colonialism disproportionately harm Indigenous peoples, their Lands, and their lifeways throughout the life cycle of nuclear technologies. To fully comprehend the power of nuclear decolonization and its connection with nuclear colonization involves a multifaceted set of inquiries into the historical, material, cultural, spatial, embodied, physical, and rhetorical aspects of nuclearism, settler colonialism, and Indigenous survivance. No one scholarly investigation can retell the full story of how nuclear decolonization and nuclear colonization have played out in what settlers named the US, let alone the rest of the world. This book, therefore, focuses on nuclear decolonization within the specific context of high-level nuclear waste siting in the US. Using a rhetorical lens, that is, a lens focused on the role of language and other symbol systems, this book demonstrates and amplifies rhetorical tactics of nuclear decolonization in contests over nuclear waste siting within Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute, and Skull Valley Goshute Lands. While a rhetorical lens offers an inevitably incomplete account of nuclear decolonization efforts, it underscores the importance of how actors perform, practice, and engage in nuclear decolonization using rhetoric.
While nuclear decolonization is an ongoing mode of Indigenous survivance, in the case of high-level nuclear waste siting, Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute, and Skull Valley Goshute nuclear decolonization tactics worked, contributing to stopping the storage of high-level nuclear waste within Yucca Mountain and Skull Valley. This is an impressive accomplishment, but one that is not unprecedented. ... Examples of successful resistance such as this are not a perfect or utopian end—they are not the culmination of nuclear decolonization—but moments within an ongoing process that involves wins and losses, constant vigilance, and reflection. That is, while we ought to celebrate and collectively remember successes—such as preventing two high-level nuclear waste sites from being built within Indigenous Lands—we must not forget that both the struggles and the moments of success are temporary. Rebecca Solnit writes, “It’s always too soon to go home. Most of the great victories continue to unfold, unfinished in the sense that they are not yet fully realized, but also in the sense that they continue to spread influence.” Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute, and Skull Valley Goshute peoples and nations enacted moments of decolonization and succeeded in significant ways, even if struggles for nuclear decolonization in other situations continue. Yet, recognizing, amplifying, and learning from moments of success not only is a form of anticolonial solidarity but more importantly offers opportunities for informing future Lands, Waters, Airs, and Skies protection movements.
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