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Bureaucrats and Indians in a Contemporary Colonial Encounter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Wendy Nelson Espeland
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Abstract

This article investigates the effects of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 in structuring an encounter over a decision about building a dam in central Arizona. From the vantage point of three groups with deep-investments in the outcome of this decision, it analyzes how the interests and identities of these parties were transformed as a result of this encounter. In defining standing and the terms of relevance, in providing a political forum, and in requiring these groups to explain themselves to others, this law powerfully mediated the politics surrounding this controversial decision.

Type
Symposium: Colonialism, Culture, and the Law
Information
Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , Spring 2001 , pp. 403 - 433
Copyright
Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2001 

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