In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Andrew Curley, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona and a member of the Navajo Nation. Curley works on how Native nations and the US government manage water and energy resources in a complex social, political, and geographic landscape. Curley and Raimi discuss water and energy issues in the Navajo Nation where Andrew lives, and how history, politics, economics, and social factors affect the decisions that relate to the governance of these essential resources.

References and recommendations:

“Our Winters’ Rights: Challenging Colonial Water Laws” by Andrew Curley; https://direct.mit.edu/glep/article/19/3/57/14963/Our-Winters-Rights-Challenging-Colonial-Water-Laws

“Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait” by Bathsheba Demuth; https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393635164

“Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia” by Victor Seow; https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo116278398.html