Infrastructure + Inequality: The Prairie Island Nuclear Plant
Alix Johnson
Macalester College
01-01-2024
This site is the end result of a semester-long project that asked students to produce new research on the Prairie Island Nuclear Plant. Situated in Red Wing, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River and ad..
This site is the end result of a semester-long project that asked students to produce new research on the Prairie Island Nuclear Plant. Situated in Red Wing, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River and adjacent to the Prairie Island Indian Community, the plant concretized many themes we explored in course readings, including the uneven exercise of “infrastructural power” (Laleh Khalili) and the challenges of practicing “infrastructural citizenship” (Deb Chachra). Students worked in small groups, each practicing different methodologies (archival research, policy research, environmental research and media analysis), then produced public-facing representations of their findings, embedded in an interactive map.