LEADER 03486oam 22006254a 450 001 9910360253103321 005 20240614092530.0 010 $a1-950192-62-8 010 $a9781950192618 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0271.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000009952574 035 $a(OAPEN)1006551 035 $a(OCoLC)1165162394 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87239 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35602 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009952574 100 $a20200123d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---a|||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Nuclear Refrain $eEmotion, Empire, and the Democratic Potential of Protest /$fKye Askins, Phil Johnstone, Kelvin Mason 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2019 210 1$aEarth, Milky Way ;$a[Brooklyn, NY] :$cpunctum books,$d2019. 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (114 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 08$a9781950192618 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aA Nuclear Refrain is a spatial fiction that critiques the policy of nuclear deterrence, the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction, and the UK's decision to replace its Vanguard submarines, so-called Trident replacement. We challenge that decision via extending our geographical imaginations into the past, present, and future. Noting the more usual economic, moral, and strategic objections to Trident and its replacement, A Nuclear Refrain considers the issues from less familiar perspectives: the emotional and embodied, empire and the establishment, and the impact on democratic potentialities. Set against the authors' ongoing participation in extensive public protests against the UK's decision to replace Trident in 2016, A Nuclear Refrain disrupts familiar academic and policy forms of writing. It is "an uncomfortable hybrid between academia and fiction," intent on discomfiting the reader to spur the radical reimagining of a world profoundly shaped by the threat of nuclear weapons. Inspired by author and social critic Charles Dickens, this book draws on the form of A Christmas Carol. Transported by "ghosts" of the nuclear past, present and future, a pro-Trident British policy maker, the Right Honourable Roger C. Bezeeneos, has his perceptions sorely challenged. But will Roger allow his feelings to influence his decision-making? Will he recognize the yearning for empire-lost that mobilizes the British establishment? And will he admit the limiting of political participation that a commitment to nuclear deterrence determines? It's your call, Roger." 606 $aNuclear weapons$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01040971 606 $aNuclear weapons$2bicssc 606 $aSociology (General) 606 $aNuclear weapons$xFiction 608 $aFiction 610 $anuclear deterrence 610 $aemotion 610 $aempire 610 $ademocracy 610 $aspatial fiction 610 $anuclear weapons 610 $adisarmament 615 0$aNuclear weapons 615 0$aNuclear weapons. 615 0$aSociology (General). 615 0$aNuclear weapons$xFiction. 700 $aAskins$b Kye$0906861 702 $aMason$b Kelvin 702 $aJohnstone$b Phil 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910360253103321 996 $aA nuclear refrain$92028523 997 $aUNINA