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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2022
• Descrizione fisica: xi, 330 pages
• Disciplina: 355.0217
• Soggetto topico: nuclear energy; nuclear technology; nuclear weapon; nuclear accident; history
• Altri autori: Bensaude-VincentBernadette BoudiaSoraya (Université de Paris, France.) SatoKyoko (Stanford University, USA.)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Living in a nuclear world
• ISBN: 1-00-322747-3; 1-000-54156-8; 1-000-54155-X; 1-003-22747-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910676688103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History and Philosophy of Technoscience