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Record Nr.

UNINA9910676688103321

Titolo

Living in a nuclear world : from Fukushima to Hiroshima / edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Soraya Boudia, and Kyoko Sato

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2022

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2022

ISBN

9781003227472

1003227473

9781000541564

1000541568

9781000541557

100054155X

Edizione

[1 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xi, 330 pages

Collana

History and philosophy of technoscience

Altri autori (Persone)

Bensaude-VincentBernadette

BoudiaSoraya (Université de Paris, France.)

SatoKyoko (Stanford University, USA.)

Disciplina

355.0217

Soggetti

nuclear energy

nuclear technology

nuclear weapon

nuclear accident

history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Violence and order -- Pacifying through control and containment -- Normalising through denial and trivialisation -- Timescaping through memory and future visions.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Fukushima disaster invites us to look back and probe how nuclear technology has shaped the world we live in, and how we have come to live with it. Since the first nuclear detonation (Trinity test), and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all in 1945, nuclear technology has profoundly affected world history and geopolitics, as well as our daily life and natural world. It has always been an instrument for national security, a marker of national sovereignty, a site of



technological innovation and a promise of energy abundance. It has also introduced permanent pollution and the age of the Anthropocene. This volume presents a new perspective on nuclear history and politics by focusing on four interconnected themes - violence and survival; control and containment; normalizing through denial and presumptions; memories and futures - and exploring their relationships and consequences. It proposes an original reflection on nuclear technology from a long-term, comparative, and transnational perspective. It brings together contributions from researchers from different disciplines (anthropology, history, STS) and countries (US, France, Japan) on a variety of local, national and transnational subjects. Finally, this book offers an important and valuable insight into other global and Anthropocene challenges such as climate change."--Publisher.