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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782085703321

Autore

Van Wyck Peter C

Titolo

Signs of danger [[electronic resource] ] : waste, trauma, and nuclear threat / / Peter C. van Wyck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8166-9259-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Collana

Theory out of bounds ; ; v. 26

Disciplina

304.2/8

Soggetti

Radioactive wastes - Environmental aspects

Radioactive waste disposal in the ground

Threat (Psychology)

Psychic trauma

Signs and symbols

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-145) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Waste; Dangerous Signs; Threat and Trauma; Appendix: A WIPP Chronology; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on the government's nuclear waste burial program in Carlsbad, New Mexico, Signs of Danger begins the urgent work of finding a new way of thinking about ecological threat in our time. The reflections at the center of this book-on memory, trauma, disaster, representation, and the virtual-offer invaluable insights into the interface of where culture ends and nature begins.