Unmaking the Bomb (eBook)

Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility

Shannon Cram (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
222 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520395138 (ISBN)

Infos

"A powerfully researched and important look at the ravages of nuclear waste remediation."—​One of the Best Indie Books of 2023, Kirkus Reviews

What does it mean to reckon with a contaminated world? In Unmaking the Bomb, Shannon Cram considers the complex social politics of this question and the regulatory infrastructures designed to answer it. Blending history, ethnography, and memoir, she investigates remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a former weapons complex in Washington State. Home to the majority of the nation's high-level nuclear waste and its largest environmental cleanup, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that will long outlast the United States and its institutional capacities. Cram examines the embodied uncertainties and structural impossibilities integral to that endeavor. In particular, this lyrical book engages in a kind of narrative contamination, toggling back and forth between cleanup's administrative frames and the stories that overspill them. It spends time with the statistical people that inhabit cleanup's metrics and models and the nonstatistical people that live with their effects. And, in the process, it explores the uneven social relations that make toxicity a normative condition. 

Inhalt

Contents

Introduction: On Telling Impossible Stories 

1. Tender 
2. Anatomy of a Phantom 
3. Rational Mutants 
4. Body Burden 
5. Trespassing 
Conclusion: Here, in the Plutonium 

Acknowledgments 
Notes 
References 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.9.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: acceptable risk • Atomic Age • body burden • Cancer • Fallout • Groundwater Contamination • hazardous materials • nuclear waste cleanup • nuclear weapons industries • permissible dose • Public Health • Radiation • reasonable harm • Robotics • Superfund • US department of energy
• ISBN-13: 9780520395138 / 9780520395138