There Are No Peripheries to Humanity: Northern Alaska Nuclear Dumping and the Iñupiat's Search for Redress

• Published in: Anthropology and Humanism
• Main Author: Turner, Edith
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1997
• Subjects: Literature and Literary Theory; Philosophy; Anthropology; Arctic; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ahu.1997.22.1.95; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1525%2Fahu.1997.22.1.95; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/ahu.1997.22.1.95; https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/ahu.1997.22.1.95

Arctic nations are beginning to band together to prevent their sparsely inhabited lands from being used as a rubbish dump for pollutants (see Schneider 1996), and for what metropolitan countries are most scared of and most want to dump elsewhere —nuclear waste. But in the moral climate of the earth, no human community is expendable. One may not touch even arctic lands. A young university student does not have to die because a government chooses to kill her, as happened when the Atomic Energy Commission dumped experimental nuclear material near her village. She was innocent. "Center" and "periphery" are no more: not only has economic globalization reached us, but the value system of the globe also.