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Uranium and Religion: Toward a Decolonial Temporality of Extraction

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Title: Uranium and Religion: Toward a Decolonial Temporality of Extraction
Authors: Amanda M. Nichols
Source: Religions, Vol 16, Iss 1, p 16 (2024)
Publisher Information: MDPI AG, 2024.
Publication Year: 2024
Collection: LCC:Religions. Mythology. Rationalism
Subject Terms: uranium, extraction, nuclear technologies, temporality, (de)colonial, environmental justice, Religions. Mythology. Rationalism, BL1-2790
Description: Uranium mining for the production of nuclear technologies has left visible scars across the United States and perpetuated legacies of extraction that extend beyond material consumption to the exploitation of people and the environment. Influenced by important ongoing conversations in the environmental and energy humanities, posthumanism, and decolonial studies, I analyze how uranium extraction has been conceived of as an “event” within a colonial temporal framework. A critical examination of how religious worldviews have informed the ways that time is conceptualized and understood shifts thinking about extraction away from colonial temporalities and helps reimagine extraction through a decolonial perspective as temporally distributed, enmeshed, and complex. This reframing is imperative to foster an understanding that the radioactive byproducts of uranium created through the nuclear production process are globally dispersed, will persist across generations, and will have transgenerational implications for human and non-human organisms and the health and viability of ecologic systems.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 2077-1444
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/1/16; https://doaj.org/toc/2077-1444
DOI: 10.3390/rel16010016
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/0ca94f5a2b5b4404910df89cbe95f15d
Accession Number: edsdoj.0ca94f5a2b5b4404910df89cbe95f15d
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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Abstract:Uranium mining for the production of nuclear technologies has left visible scars across the United States and perpetuated legacies of extraction that extend beyond material consumption to the exploitation of people and the environment. Influenced by important ongoing conversations in the environmental and energy humanities, posthumanism, and decolonial studies, I analyze how uranium extraction has been conceived of as an “event” within a colonial temporal framework. A critical examination of how religious worldviews have informed the ways that time is conceptualized and understood shifts thinking about extraction away from colonial temporalities and helps reimagine extraction through a decolonial perspective as temporally distributed, enmeshed, and complex. This reframing is imperative to foster an understanding that the radioactive byproducts of uranium created through the nuclear production process are globally dispersed, will persist across generations, and will have transgenerational implications for human and non-human organisms and the health and viability of ecologic systems.
ISSN:20771444
DOI:10.3390/rel16010016