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Author Van Wyck, Peter C

Title Signs of danger : waste, trauma, and nuclear threat / Peter C. van Wyck
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 155 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Theory out of bounds ; v. 26
Theory out of bounds ; v. 26.
Contents Preface; Introduction; Waste; Dangerous Signs; Threat and Trauma; Appendix: A WIPP Chronology; Notes; Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-145) and index
Notes English
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Subject Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (N.M.)
SUBJECT Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (N.M.) fast
Subject Radioactive wastes -- Environmental aspects
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground.
Threat (Psychology)
Psychic trauma.
Signs and symbols.
symbols.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Psychic trauma
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground
Radioactive wastes -- Environmental aspects
Signs and symbols
Threat (Psychology)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004017298
ISBN 9780816692590
0816692599
9780816637621
0816637628
9780816637638
0816637636