Nuclear Culture Research Papers

At the beginning of the 20th century the collective imagination was fascinated and terrified by the discovery of radium. A scientific imagery sprang up around radioactivity and was disseminated by public lectures and newspaper articles... more

In this article, secrecy – the practice, infrastructure, and ideology of deliberate concealment of information – is described on the empirical example of nuclear laboratories subordinated to the Soviet atomic agency. The author pays... more

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- by Galina Orlova
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  Soviet History, Nuclear Culture, Laboratory Studies, Soviet Science

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- by Egle Rindzeviciute
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  History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Cultural Heritage

For each geological epoch the International Union of Geological Sciences identifies an exemplary site and marks it by driving a golden spike into the rock layers. INOVA's exhibition brings together nine contemporary artists to explore... more

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- by Dehlia Hannah and +1
  Sara Krajewski
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  Cultural Studies, Geography, Philosophy of Science, Stratigraphy

This chapter investigates religious commemorative culture that has sprung up in Belarus in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. More specifically, it focuses on commemorative icons and religious artwork and how they are used in... more

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- by Tokikake (Toki) Ii
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  Cold War and Culture, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Culture, Godzilla

This is a long, pre-print draft of an essay to appear in Toxic Immanence: Nuclear Legacies, Futures, and the Place of Twenty-First Century Nuclear Environmental Humanities, edited by Livia Monnet and Peter van Wyck, from McGill-Queen's... more

This is a long, pre-print draft of an essay to appear in Toxic Immanence: Nuclear Legacies, Futures, and the Place of Twenty-First Century Nuclear Environmental Humanities, edited by Livia Monnet and Peter van Wyck, from McGill-Queen's University Press. The chapter explores generic and ideological contradictions in the post-catastrophist imaginary of the nuclear, using Dmitry Glukhovsky's Metro 2033 as a paradigmatic example of post-Soviet Russian speculative fiction, and examines the political implications of the transmedial refashioning of Glukovsky’s novel for mass consumption within international video game markets as a post-apocalyptic first person shooter (FPS). I will focus on the concept of the “enduring nuclear,” which indicates on one hand the long, seemingly imperceptible temporalities of radioactive decay and the “slow violence” of nuclear disaster, but which also alludes to the ways in which the post-catastrophic genre is bound up with a sense of impossible or blocked futurity, resulting in the contradiction that speculative post-Soviet fictions such as Metro 2033, while post-apocalyptic, seem incapable of imagining a transition to a post-nuclear modernity. If a central task of energy humanities critics is to ask, “Who gets to imagine energy futures?” comparative literary topographies are essential to the formulation of a nuclear energy humanities. A world-literary approach to nuclear environmental criticism should uncover not only imaginaries corresponding to British and American nuclear culture and the dominance of the US imperium, but also on the enduring nuclear futures imagined in post-Soviet Russia and other global contexts of nuclear development in the twenty-first century, such as China, India, and Iran. The globalization of the nuclear can be mapped “through the trace of militarized radiation.” Our capitalist nuclear modernity is above all a global modernity–singular, planetary, and world-historical –in which all forms of earthly life have been altered by the atmospheric effects of nuclear development

Pre-print draft of a chapter that appears in DeLoughrey, E.; Didur, J.; Carrigan, A (eds). Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches. London: Routledge 2015 pp.286-306 In this essay, I attempt a first... more

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- by Shannon Stevens
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  Cultural Studies, Psychology, Rhetoric, History of Japan

This conference paper was presented at the 2016 HOTCUS conference at the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, NL and examines American cultural and political reactions the 1978 de-orbit of the nuclear-powered Soviet spy satellite Cosmos... more

The introduction to the volume lays out the rationale and ambitions of the book, delineates its chronological and geographical focus and situates it in the existing historiography of civil defence. One central ambition is to advance civil... more

With the aim of overcoming the disciplinary and national fragmentation that characterizes much research on nuclear energy, Engaging the Atom brings together specialists from a variety of fields to analyze comparative case studies across... more

With the aim of overcoming the disciplinary and national fragmentation that characterizes much research on nuclear energy, Engaging the Atom brings together specialists from a variety of fields to analyze comparative case studies across Europe and the United States. It explores evolving relationships between society and the nuclear sector from the origins of civilian nuclear power until the present, asking why nuclear energy has been more contentious in some countries than in others and why some countries have never gone nuclear, or have decided to phase out nuclear, while their neighbors have committed to the so-called nuclear renaissance. Contributors examine the challenges facing the nuclear sector in the context of aging reactor fleets, pressing climate urgency, and increasing competition from renewable energy sources.

Written by leading academics in their respective disciplines, the nine chapters of Engaging the Atom place the evolution of nuclear energy within a broader set of national and international configurations, including its role within policies and markets.

Contents
Preface

Introduction: Nuclear Energy and Society in Postwar Europe
Arne Kaijser, Markku Lehtonen, Jan-Henrik Meyer, and Mar Rubio-Varas

Part 1: Context
1. Nuclear-Society Relations from the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Paul Josephson, Jan-Henrik Meyer, and Arne Kaijser

2. The Changing Economic Context Influencing Nuclear Decisions
Mar Rubio-Varas

Part 2: Actors
3. One Movement or Many? The Diversity of Antinuclear Movements in Europe
Albert Presas i Puig and Jan-Henrik Meyer

4. International Organizations and the Atom: How Comecon, Euratom, and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Developed Societal Engagement
Paul Josephson and Markku Lehtonen

Part 3: Perspectives
5. Risky or Beneficial? Exploring Perceptions of Nuclear Energy over Time in a Cross-Country Perspective
Josep Espluga, Wilfried Konrad, Ann Enander, Beatriz Medina, Ana Prades, and Pieter Cools

6. Trust and Mistrust in Radioactive Waste Management: Historical Experience from High- and Low-Trust Contexts
Markku Lehtonen, Matthew Cotton, and Tatiana Kasperski

7. Nuclear Power and Environmental Justice: The Case for Political Equality
Matthew Cotton

8. Nuclear Energy in Europe: A Public Technology
Stathis Arapostathis, Robert Bud, and Helmuth Trischler

9. Nuclear Installations at European Borders: Transboundary Collaboration and Conflict
Arne Kaijser and Jan-Henrik Meyer

Conclusions: Future Challenges for Nuclear Energy and Society in a Historical Perspective
Arne Kaijser, Markku Lehtonen, Jan-Henrik Meyer, and Mar Rubio-Varas

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- by Jan-Henrik Meyer and +1
  Markku Lehtonen
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  Nuclear Engineering, European History, Energy Economics, Border Studies

This dissertation explores the impact of hegemonic masculinity, in the early Cold War era, on the electoral politics of Canada and the United States. It situates itself in the years between 1949 and 1963, arguably the height of nuclear... more

This article discusses how J.A. Baker’s experimental nonfiction book The Peregrine (1967) responds to the dispersal of persistent toxic substances by distorting pastoral modes of expression. It also connects the text to contemporary... more

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- by Robert Newton
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  Creative Nonfiction, Environmental Humanities, Toxicity, Pesticides

This essay deals with plants, art, radioactive territories and nuclear imagination in the the art-book The Chernobyl Herbarium. Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness (2016) by Michael Marder and Anaïs Tondeur. In this study, I analyze... more

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- by Azucena Castro
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  Toxicity, Nuclear Culture, Images of Plants In Art, Postnatural

Contribution to Emilija Škarnulytė first monograph SIRENOMELIA published with Sternberg Press.

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- by Alison Sperling
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  Contemporary Art, Film and Video Art, Anthropocene, Nuclear Culture

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Volume 21 (2019) Issue 1 Article 7 Memory in T/Rubble: Tackling (Nuclear) Ruins Marilena Parlati University of Padova, Italy Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb Part of the Film and Media Studies... more

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- by Marilena Parlati
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  Kazuo Ishiguro, Nuclear Culture, Nuclear art

During the Cold War, cities were seen as likely targets of modern total warfare and systems of civil defence were created to protect cities and their inhabitants. Yet existing civil defence histories have focused little on the... more

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- by Rosanna Farbøl
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  Architecture, Urban History, Local History, Political Science

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- by Jordan Bear
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  Visual Studies, Art History, Globalization, Refugee Studies

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- by Theresa Deichert
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  Film Studies, Japanese Cinema, Postmodernism, Art And Ecology

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- by Amber Hickey
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  Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, Film Studies, Popular Culture

Abstract. In January 1959, from the platform of the XXI Party Congress, the communist leaders promised the Soviet people the developing of material and technical conditions for the transition to the Light Future at the end of the first... more

download: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0963662514548135 http://pus.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/09/02/0963662514548135.abstract 1. Introduction - 2. Previous studies on radiation and nuclear energy - 3. Considerations... more

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- by Andrea Candela
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  Media Studies, Journalism, Radiation, History of Science

A short contemplation on the importance of religious objects in a situation of crisis. The essay focuses on the contamination of religious items due to the Chernobyl explosion and parallels it with the situation caused by COVID19. I... more

In this field trip led by artist Sam Nightingale, we travel to Caithness – the furthest reaches of mainland Scotland – to ask how we might imagine deep time through the material and immaterial nuclear landscape? That is, through a deep... more

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- by Sam Nightingale
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  Art Practice as Research, Deep time, Nuclear Culture, Nuclear Landscapes

Under slutet av 1960-talet ställdes civilförsvaret inför en omstöpning av sin sedan länge rikstäckande skyddsrumsplanering. Det militära försvaret signalerade nu att kärnvapendimensionen i den allmänna försvarsplaneringen skulle tonas ner... more

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"The 3 Minute Research Presentation Competition provides an opportunity for graduate students to explain their thesis, dissertation, capstone research, or creative work in a face-to-face presentation to an intelligent, non-specialist... more

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This article examines British popular and media reactions to America's Bravo test shot in April 1954 and Coventry City Council's subsequent decision to abandon civil defence. The article finds that three key motifs emerged which relate to... more

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Before "Occupy Wall Street," the Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice spent several years in the 1980s on a farm in upstate New York protesting nuclear weapons and racial and gender inequalities. These foremothers... more

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