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1 online resource (376 pages) |
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History and philosophy of technoscience |
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History and philosophy of technoscience.
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Introduction: Shaping the Nuclear OrderBernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Soraya Boudia and Kyoko SatoSection 1: Violence and Order1. What the Bomb Has Done: Victim Relief, Knowledge, and PoliticsKyoko Sato2. Optics of ExposureJoseph Masco3. Constructing World Order: Mobilizing Tropes of Gender, Pathology and Race to Frame US Non-Proliferation PolicyJohn Krige4. The Nuclear Charter: International Law, Military Technology, and the Making of Strategic Trusteeship, 1942-1947Mary X. MitchellSection 2: Pacifying Through Control and Containment5. Sharing the "Safe" Atom?: The International Atomic Energy Agency and Nuclear Regulation Through StandardizationAngela N. H. Creager and Maria Rentetzi6. From Military Surveillance to Citizen Counter-Expertise: Radioactivity Monitoring in a Nuclear WorldNestor Herran7. Making the Accident Hypothetical: How Can One Deal with the Potential Nuclear Disaster?Maël Goumri8. Governing the Nuclear Waste Problem: Nature and TechnologyTania Navarro RodríguezSection 3: Normalizing Through Denial and Trivialization 9. Trivializing Life in Long-Term Contaminated Areas. The Nuclear Political LaboratorySoraya Boudia10. Continuing Nuclear Tests and Ending Fish Inspections: Politics, Science, and the Lucky Dragon Incident in 1954Hiroko Takahashi11. The Dystopic Pieta: Chernobyl Survivors and Neo-Liberalism's Lasting JudgmentsKate Brown12. Unfolding Time at FukushimaHarry BernasSection 4: Timescaping Through Memory and Future Visions13. Framing a Nuclear Order of TimeBernadette Bensaude-Vincent14. Nuclear Dreams and Capitalist Visions: The Peaceful Atom in HiroshimaRan Zwigenberg15. Slow Disaster and the Challenge of Nuclear MemoryScott Gabriel Knowles |
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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 |
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Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent is a historian and philosopher of science and technology, and Professor (Emeritus) at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Soraya Boudia is a historian of science and Professor of Science, Technology and Society at University of Paris. Kyoko Sato is Associate Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University |
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Nuclear energy.
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Nuclear energy -- Social aspects
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Nuclear Energy
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nuclear power.
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HISTORY -- Civilization.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Nuclear energy
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Nuclear energy -- Social aspects
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Electronic book
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Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette, editor.
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Boudia, Soraya, editor. Université de Paris, France.
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Sato, Kyoko, editor. Stanford University, USA.
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| ISBN |
9781003227472 |
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1003227473 |
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9781000541564 |
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1000541568 |
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9781000541557 |
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100054155X |
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