Goshute Native American tribe and nuclear waste: Complexities and contradictions of a bounded-constitutive relationship

Environmental Communication

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 387-405

  Clarke, Tracylee ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded Constitutive; Goshute Native Americans; Material; Nuclear Waste; Phenomenology; Symbolic

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650536983     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2010.520724     Document Type: Article

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