The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice: Nature, Society, and Culture
Autor Stephanie A. Malinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mai 2015
Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining industry across the American West. In The Price of Nuclear Power, environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-the-ground portrait of several uranium communities caught between the harmful legacy of previous mining booms and the potential promise of new economic development. Using this context, she examines how shifting notions of environmental justice inspire divergent views about nuclear power’s sustainability and equally divisive forms of social activism.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in rural isolated towns such as Monticello, Utah, and Nucla and Naturita, Colorado, as well as in upscale communities like Telluride, Colorado, and incorporating interviews with community leaders, environmental activists, radiation regulators, and mining executives, Malin uncovers a fundamental paradox of the nuclear renaissance: the communities most hurt by uranium’s legacy—such as high rates of cancers, respiratory ailments, and reproductive disorders—were actually quick to support industry renewal. She shows that many impoverished communities support mining not only because of the employment opportunities, but also out of a personal identification with uranium, a sense of patriotism, and new notions of environmentalism. But other communities, such as Telluride, have become sites of resistance, skeptical of industry and government promises of safe mining, fearing that regulatory enforcement won’t be strong enough. Indeed, Malin shows that the nuclear renaissance has exacerbated social divisions across the Colorado Plateau, threatening social cohesion. Malin further illustrates ways in which renewed uranium production is not a socially sustainable form of energy development for rural communities, as it is utterly dependent on unstable global markets.
The Price of Nuclear Power is an insightful portrait of the local impact of the nuclear renaissance and the social and environmental tensions inherent in the rebirth of uranium mining.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780813569789
ISBN-10: 0813569788
Pagini: 238
Ilustrații: 16 photographs, 4 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Nature, Society, and Culture
ISBN-10: 0813569788
Pagini: 238
Ilustrații: 16 photographs, 4 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Nature, Society, and Culture
Notă biografică
STEPHANIE A. MALIN is an assistant professor of sociology at Colorado State University and a faculty affiliate with CSU’s Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis and the Water Center.
Cuprins
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: The Paradox of Uranium Production in a Neoliberal Era
2 Booms, Busts, and Bombs: Uranium’s Economic and Environmental Justice History in the US
3 Lethal Legacies in Uranium Communities: Left in the Dust in Monticello, Utah
4 The Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill: A Transnational Corporation Comes Home
5 ‘Just Hangin’ on by a Thread’: Isolation, Poverty, and Social Dislocation
6 ‘Better Regs’ in an Era of Deregulation: Neoliberalized Narratives of Regulatory Compliance
7 Conclusions and Solutions: Social Sustainability and Localized Energy Justice
Appendix: Research Methods and Data Collection
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
"A vanguard contribution to examining the pitfalls of alt-energy zeal. Highly recommended."
"This book is written to be accessible to broad audiences with an interest in the intersection of energy and society, as well as academic audiences interested in rural sociology, environmental sociology, or other related fields."
"Malin provides a compassionate and intriguing ethnography of communities harmed by uranium mining and milling, of government duplicity in covering up hazards, and of the inspiring citizen science with which opponents have mapped cancer clusters and conducted health surveys. This book helps us understand how uranium production, along with other harmful energy production can beget structural violence, disease, and perpetuate inequalities."
"An enjoyable and accessible book, The Price of Nuclear Power provides great insight into the central problem facing natural resource communities across the globe, and is rich in ethnographic details that focus on environmental inequalities."
"The Price of Nuclear Power powerfully documents how isolation and poverty drive residents to support uranium milling despite its health risks. The voices of all sides of the complex debate ring out from Malin’s surveys and interviews."
Descriere
In The Price of Nuclear Power, environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-the-ground portrait of several uranium communities caught between the harmful legacy of previous mining booms and the potential promise of new economic development. An insightful look at the local impact of the nuclear renaissance and community members’ shifting notions of environmental justice, this book warns that this industry needs to be closely followed to mitigate the social and environmental tensions inherent in the rebirth of uranium mining.