Auf Lager:
4
Buch (Softcover): Sachbuch
Radioactive Ghosts
Produkt bewerten
Verlag:
University of Minnesota Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 6NNP7WE
EAN: 9781517907839
Auf Lager:
4
Zustellung: Di, 28.07.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 37.–
Beschreibung
A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate Amid resurgent calls for widespread nuclear energy and “limited nuclear war,” the populations that must live with the consequences of these decisions are increasingly insecure. The nuclear peril combined with the looming threat of climate change means that we are seeing the formation of a new kind of subjectivity: humans who are in a position of perpetual ontological insecurity. In Radioactive Ghosts, Gabriele Schwab articulates a vision of these “nuclear subjectivities” that we all live with. Focusing on the legacies of the Manhattan Project, Hiroshima, and nuclear energy politics, Radioactive Ghosts takes us on a tour of the little-seen sides of our nuclear world. Examining devastating uranium mining on Native lands, nuclear sacrifice zones, the catastrophic accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima, and the formation of a new transspecies ethics, Schwab shows how individuals threatened with extinction are creating new adaptations, defenses, and communal spaces. Ranging from personal accounts of experiences with radiation to in-depth readings of literature, film, art, and scholarly works, Schwab gives us a complex, idiosyncratic, and personal analysis of one of the most overlooked issues of our time.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Gabriele Schwab
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2020
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 320