Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia

Author:   Jessica Urwin ,  Paul S. Sutter ,  Paul S. Sutter
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
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Pages:   326
Publication Date:   30 October 2025
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Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia


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The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia's embrace of the world's nuclear order Though a nonnuclear state, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth century. From uranium extraction to nuclear testing, Australia's lands became sites of imperial exploitation under the guise of national development. The continent was subject to rampant nuclear colonialism. However, this history is not just one of imposition. Aboriginal communities, bearing the brunt of these processes, have persistently resisted, reclaiming their rights to Country and demanding reparations. As Jessica Urwin shows, extraction, weapons testing, and nuclear waste disposal have caused incalculable physical, spiritual, and cultural harm to Aboriginal communities and lands. Yet Indigenous peoples all over the world have not only survived nuclear colonialism but challenged it time and time again. Tracking the colonial mechanisms Australia used to pursue a nuclear industry, Urwin simultaneously highlights how Aboriginal peoples refused and reshaped those same mechanisms over time. A groundbreaking book, Contaminated Country reveals how Australia's deep nuclear past has been entangled with colonialism locally, nationally, and internationally.

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Author:   Jessica Urwin ,  Paul S. Sutter ,  Paul S. Sutter
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
Imprint:   University of Washington Press
ISBN:  

9780295753799


ISBN 10:   029575379
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   30 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Jessica Urwin is a lecturer in environmental history at the University of Tasmania.

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