Lecture: Permeable Jurisdictions: Apprehending Toxic Exposure in and between the Navajo Nation

School for Advanced Research Scholar Colloquium
Permeable Jurisdictions: Apprehending Toxic Exposure in and between the Navajo Nation

Teresa Montoya
SAR 2024-25 Research Associate
Ford Foundation Research Associate
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

On the Navajo Nation, there remain over 500 abandoned uranium mines following rampant Cold War era extraction projects that continue to contaminate land and kin alike. Diné scholar Teresa Montoya interrogates the endurance of toxic exposure in the 21st century alongside settler colonial land policy of the 19th century to theorize the ongoing challenges—and possibilities—for environmental regulation and political mobilization on Indigenous lands today.

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