1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452479503321

Autore

Petryna Adriana

Titolo

Life exposed [[electronic resource] ] : biological citizens after Chernobyl / / Adriana Petryna ; with a new introduction by the author

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-299-38786-1

1-4008-4509-2

Edizione

[With a New introduction by the author]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

363.1799094777

Soggetti

Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 - Health aspects

Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 - Environmental aspects

Radioactive pollution - Ukraine

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Paperback reissue.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction to the 2013 Edition: How Did They Survive? -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Chapter 1: life Politics after Chernobyl -- Chapter 2: Technical Error: Measures of life and Risk -- Chapter 3: Chernobyl in Historical Light -- Chapter 4: Illness as Work: Human Market Transition -- Chapter 5: Biological Citizenship -- Chapter 6: Local Science and Organic Processes -- Chapter 7: Self and Social Identity in Transition -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster. Tracing the story from an initial lack of disclosure to post-Soviet democratizing attempts to compensate sufferers, Adriana Petryna uses anthropological tools to take us into a world whose social realities are far more immediate and stark than those described by policymakers and scientists. She asks: What happens to



politics when state officials fail to inform their fellow citizens of real threats to life? What are the moral and political consequences of remedies available in the wake of technological disasters? Through extensive research in state institutions, clinics, laboratories, and with affected families and workers of the so-called Zone, Petryna illustrates how the event and its aftermath have not only shaped the course of an independent nation but have made health a negotiated realm of entitlement. She tracks the emergence of a "biological citizenship" in which assaults on health become the coinage through which sufferers stake claims for biomedical resources, social equity, and human rights. Life Exposed provides an anthropological framework for understanding the politics of emergent democracies, the nature of citizenship claims, and everyday forms of survival as they are interwoven with the profound changes that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777434303321

Autore

Henig Ruth

Titolo

The Origins of the Second World War 1933-1941 [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013

ISBN

1-280-21788-X

1-134-31986-X

0-203-33227-X

9786610217885

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Collana

Lancaster Pamphlets

Disciplina

940.53/11

940.5311

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Causes

World War, 1939-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Timeline of key events; Map 1 Hitler's foreign policy: the struggle against Versailles. German territorial losses by the treaty; Map 2 Central



and Western Pacific, 1921; Map 3 The Italian invasion of Abyssinia, 1935; Map 4 The execution of Hitler's plans: Germany in Europe, 1942; Introduction; 1 Long-term causes; 2 The years 1933-41; Nazi ideology; The consolidation of the Nazi regime; Early diplomacy and the challenge of German rearmament, 1933-5; The challenge of Japanese and Italian territorial expansion

The remilitarization of the Rhineland and the Spanish civil warThe Anschluss with Austria and the Czechoslovak crisis, 1938; From European war to world war: Europe and the Far East, 1939-41; 3 The historical debate; 4 Guide to further reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Updated and expanded throughout to take into consideration the most up-to-date historical research, this new edition of The Origins of the Second World War analyzes the reasons for the outbreak of the Second World War.Experienced historian Ruth Henig considers:* the long-term factors that led to war* the effect of British appeasement policies* the significance of American isolation* the ambitions of Italy, Japan and Russia.The Origins of the Second World War brings one of the most controversial historical topics to life for a whole gene