Toxic Immanence Decolonizing Nuclear Legacies and Futures

A critical reflection on the potential of nuclear humanities, Toxic Immanence offers intellectual strategies for resisting and abolishing the global nuclear regime. This collection develops a discourse between the fields of nuclear knowledge and integrates the nuclear humanities with environmental j...

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1. Verfasser: Monnet, Livia (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press 2022
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  • Cover
  • TOXIC IMMANENCE
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Table and Figures
  • Foreword | The Atomic Now
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction | Toxic Immanence: Toward Decolonizing Pedagogies of the Nuclear
  • ONE Aftereffects of Chernobyl and Fukushima
  • 1 "The Future Is Behind Them!": Post-Apocalypse and the Enduring Nuclear in Post-Soviet Russian Fiction
  • 2 From Toxic Lands to Toxic Rumours: Nuclear Accidents, Contaminated Territories, and the Production of (Radio)active Ignorance
  • 3 The Fukushima Process
  • 4 Fukushima and the Rebuild of Godzilla: Multiplying Media in an Era of Multiplying Disaster
  • Afterword | Repeating, Multiplying: The Ongoing Now of Nuclear Aftereffects
  • TWO The Cold War and Post-Cold War Nuclear State and Its Geopolitics: Imaginaries and Contestations
  • 5 Shaking, Trembling, Rattling, Shouting: Seismic Politics in the Nuclear Age
  • 6 What Is the Matter with Nuclear Weapons Communication?
  • 7 The National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service: 10-Year Final Report on Public Agency Organizing and Operational Responses to Cold War Legacies and the Nuclear Stockpile
  • 8 Sounding Out the Nuclear: An Atomic Opera
  • 9 Poetry and Anti-Nuclearism: Tɛχνɳ and the "Fundamental Project"
  • Afterword | Fears and the (Nuclear) Apocalypse: Who Is Afraid of What?
  • THREE Archaeologies and Heritages
  • 10 Emergency/Salvage Archaeology: Excavating Media and Uranium in the Glen Canyon
  • 11 Nuclear Waste as Critical Heritage
  • Afterword | Lingering Radiation: On Violent Pasts and Open-Ended Futures
  • FOUR Nuclear Aesthetics: Contemporary Art, Nuclear Colonialism, and the Transformation of Life and the Environment
  • 12 Atomic Aborigines: Appropriation and Colonization of Indigenous Australia during British Nuclear Testing
  • 13 The Antipodean Stance of Pam Debenham's 1980s Screenprints
  • 14 The Immanation-Image: Immanent Experience and Kazakhstan's Socialist and Postsocialist Modernity in Almagul Menlibayeva's Video Installation Transformation (2016)
  • Afterword | The Possibility of a Situated Nuclear Knowledge: Art in Contaminated Sites
  • FIVE Artists' Contributions
  • 15 Inheritance: Radiant Reflections from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima: 20 Poems by Bo Jacobs for 20 Photographs by elin O'Hara slavick
  • 16 Nuclear Family: A Poem
  • Postface | Unmaking the Nuclear Future
  • Contributors
  • Index