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Endres, Danielle. 2009. The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 6 (1) : 39–60.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | critical discourse analysis | disadvantage | discourse strategy | nukespeak

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper argues that nuclear colonialism rhetorically excludes American Indians and their opposition to it via specific rhetorical strategies, and exemplifies this in the case of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste siting process.