The Nevada desert and Kazakh nuclear sites share environ-cultural memory and imaginative links

Evidence

In Savage Dreams, Solnit commits herself to repopulating those places of cultural and imaginative evacuation. Her restorative ambitions are both temporal and spatial: she gives back to these deserts an environmental and cultural memory as well as connecting them globally, by tracing the cold-war links between Nevada and Kazakhstan. These links include new forms of imaginative awareness generated by a transnational protest movement. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1171

Categorization

• XREF: Solnit’s method of restoring both temporal and spatial memory to evacuated lands parallels Book So Far’s earlier claim (ch1, ch12) about making slow violence sensually present through silenced absence — and feeds the literature strand of the Eco-Justice polyad. — connects to: Nuclear test sites worldwide are sited on lands of marginalized nomadic micro-minorities — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1172