Wastelanding legacies of uranium mining in navajo country wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on navajo land in the us southwest asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm uranium mines and mills on the navajo nation land have . Wastelanding is an ambitious project that injects fresh insights into a subject well known to american indian scholars if not environmental historians more broadly focusing on the environmental injustice of uranium mining on navajo lands the book demonstrates how the material work of extraction was preceded by ideological efforts to render dine bikeyah a wasteland fit for destruction. Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on navajo land in the us southwest asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm uranium mines and mills on the navajo nation land have long supplied us nuclear weapons and energy programs. Angeles california she is the author of wastelanding legacies of uranium mining in navajo country university of minnesota press may 2015 which explores the history of uranium mining as a process of wastelanding a racial and spatial process of rendering an environment and the bodies that inhabit it pollutable. In examining the history of wastelanding in navajo country voyles provides u201can environmental justice historyu201d of uranium mining revealing how just as u201ccivilizationu201d has been defined on and through u201csavagery u201d environmental privilege is produced by portraying other landscapes as marginal worthless and pollutable