Nuclear Cultures

Author : Ele Carpenter
Publisher : Black Dog Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 1911164058

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The Nuclear Culture Source Book by Ele Carpenter Pdf

The Nuclear Culture Source Book serves as an excellent resource and introduction to nuclear culture as one of the most prominent themes within contemporary art and society, exploring the diverse ways in which post-Fukushima society has influenced artistic and cultural production. The book brings together a wide-ranging collection of material from artists and writers working within the scope of nuclear culture internationally, including works by renowned practitioners such as Lise Autogena, Thomson & Craighead, Crowe & Rawlinson, David Mabb, Katsuhiro Miyamoto, Kota Takeuchi and Chim-Pom. Building on four years of research into nuclear culture by the book's editor, Ele Carpenter, The Nuclear Culture Source Book features contributions by over 60 artists including spectacular imagery of nuclear sites taken on artist field trips, from underground research laboratories in Japan to the Faslane Trident base. Contextualising this is a series of essays by international arts and humanities scholars and writers including: Timothy Morton writing on radiation as a hyperobject; Peter C van Wyck on the nuclear anthropocene; Kodwo Eshun and Noi Sawaragi on Fukushima; and Susan Schuppli on nuclear materiality. Published in partnership with Bildmuseet, Sweden and Arts Catalyst, London.

Author : Trevor Findlay
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262369763

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Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture by Trevor Findlay Pdf

The role of organizational culture in international efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. In Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture, Trevor Findlay investigates the role that organizational culture may play in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, examining particularly how it affects the nuclear safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the paramount global organization in the non-proliferation field. Findlay seeks to identify how organizational culture may have contributed to the IAEA’s failure to detect Iraq’s attempts to acquire illicit nuclear capabilities in the decade prior to the 1990 Gulf War and how the agency has sought to change safeguards culture since then. In doing so, he addresses an important piece of the nuclear nonproliferation puzzle: how to ensure that a robust international safeguards system, in perpetuity, might keep non-nuclear states from acquiring such weapons. Findlay, as one of the leading scholars on the IAEA, brings a valuable holistic perspective to his analysis of the agency’s culture. Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture will inspire debate about the role of organizational culture in a key international organization—a culture that its member states, leadership, and staff have often sought to ignore or downplay.

Author : Jonathan Hogg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441109248

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British Nuclear Culture by Jonathan Hogg Pdf

The advent of the atomic bomb, the social and cultural impact of nuclear science, and the history of the British nuclear state after 1945 is a complex and contested story. British Nuclear Culture is an important survey that offers a new interpretation of the nuclear century by tracing the tensions between 'official' and 'unofficial' nuclear narratives in British culture. In this book, Jonathan Hogg argues that nuclear culture was a pervasive and persistent aspect of British life, particularly in the years following 1945. This idea is illustrated through detailed analysis of various primary source materials, such as newspaper articles, government files, fictional texts, film, music and oral testimonies. The book introduces unfamiliar sources to students of nuclear and cold war history, and offers in-depth and critical reflections on the expanding historiography in this area of research. Chronologically arranged, British Nuclear Culture reflects upon, and returns to, a number of key themes throughout, including nuclear anxiety, government policy, civil defence, 'nukespeak' and nuclear subjectivity, individual experience, protest and resistance, and the influence of the British nuclear state on everyday life. The book contains illustrations, individual case studies, a select bibliography, a timeline, and a list of helpful online resources for students of nuclear history.

Author : Paul Rogat Loeb
Publisher : Library Company of Philadelphia
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040372034

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Nuclear Culture by Paul Rogat Loeb Pdf

Author : International Atomic Energy Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9201145101

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Nuclear Techniques for Cultural Heritage Research by International Atomic Energy Agency Pdf

"Scientific studies of art and archaeology are a necessary complement to cultural heritage conservation, preservation and investigation. Nuclear techniques, such as neutron activation analysis, X ray fluorescence analysis and ion beam analysis, have a potential for non-destructive and reliable investigation of precious artefacts and materials, such as ceramics, stone, metal, and pigments from paintings. Such information can be helpful in repair of damaged objects, in identification of fraudulent artefacts and in the appropriate categorization of historic artefacts."--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000804621

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Nuclear Cultures by Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events. Examining multiple discourses and textual materials, including fiction, poetry, biographies, comics, paintings, documentary and photography, this volume will illuminate the cultural, ecological and social impact of nuclearization narratives. Furthermore, this text explores themes such as the cultures of atomic scientists, the making of the bomb, nuclear bombings and disasters, nuclear aesthetics and art, and the global mobilization against nuclearization. Nuclear Cultures breaks new ground in the debates on "the nuclear" to foster the development of nuclear humanities, its vocabulary and methodology.

Author : Hugh Gusterson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520213734

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Nuclear Rites by Hugh Gusterson Pdf

"An extremely important work. . . . It demonstrates the power that ethnographic analysis can have when directed at an examination of our own society's central nervous system."—Faye Ginsburg, author of Contested Lives "Essential reading for anyone trying to understand what Cold War science was in all its cultural aspects and what this same science now in transformation might yet be."—George E. Marcus, co-editor of The Traffic in Culture

Author : Robert Jacobs
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739135587

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Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future by Robert Jacobs Pdf

From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future of human civilization. Political and social forces often seemed paralyzed in thinking beyond the advent of nuclear weapons and articulating a creative response to the dilemma posed by this apocalyptic technology. Art and popular culture are uniquely suited to grapple with the implications of the bomb and the disruptions in the continuity of traditional narratives about the human future endemic to the atomic age. Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future explores the diversity of visions evoked in American and Japanese society by the mushroom cloud hanging over the future of humanity during the last half of the twentieth century. It presents historical scholarship on art and popular culture alongside the work of artists responding to the bomb, as well as artists discussing their own work. From the effect of nuclear testing on sci-fi movies during the mid-fifties in both the U.S. and Japan, to the socially engaged visual discussion about power embodied in Japanese manga, Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future takes readers into unexpected territory

Author : Grace Halden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317419921

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Three Mile Island by Grace Halden Pdf

Three Mile Island explains the far-reaching consequences of the partial meltdown of Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island power plant on March 28, 1979. Though the disaster was ultimately contained, the fears it triggered had an immediate and lasting impact on public attitudes towards nuclear energy in the United States. In this volume, Grace Halden contextualizes the events at Three Mile Island and the ensuing media coverage, offering a gripping portrait of a nation coming to terms with technological advances that inspired both awe and terror. Including a selection of key primary documents, this book offers a fascinating resource for students of the history of science, technology, the environment, and Cold War culture.

Author : Igor Khripunov,Nikolay Ischenko,James P. Holmes
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781586037864

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Nuclear Security Culture by Igor Khripunov,Nikolay Ischenko,James P. Holmes Pdf

"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Nuclear Security Culture: From National Best Practices to International Standards, Moscow, Russia, 24-25 October 2005."--T.p. verso.

Author : Anna Volkmar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666900231

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Art and Nuclear Power by Anna Volkmar Pdf

Humanity is struggling with the environmental destruction and social change caused by modern technologies like nuclear reactors. Politicians, scientists, and business leaders all too often revert to a tried and tested set of solutions that fails to grasp the wicked nature of the problem. Eschewing the problem-solving approach that dominates the nuclear energy debate, Anna Volkmar suggests that the only intelligent way to account for the inherent complexity of nuclear technology is not by trying to resolve it but to muddle through it. Through in-depth analyses of contemporary visual art, Volkmar demonstrates how art can suggest ways to muddle through these issues intelligently and ethically. This book is recommended for students and scholars of art history, anthropology, social science, ecocriticism, and philosophy.

Author : Matthew Grant,Benjamin Ziemann
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526101334

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Understanding the imaginary war by Matthew Grant,Benjamin Ziemann Pdf

This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds. The book includes survey chapters and case studies on Western Europe, the USSR, Japan and the USA. Looking at various strands of intellectual debate and at different media, from documentary film to fiction, the chapters demonstrate the difficulties to make the unthinkable and unimaginable - nuclear apocalypse - imaginable. The book will be required reading for everyone who wants to understand the cultural dynamics of the Cold War through the angle of its core ingredient, nuclear weapons.

Author : Toni A. Perrine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317732198

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Film and the Nuclear Age by Toni A. Perrine Pdf

Just as we generally pay scant attention to the potential dangers of nuclear power and nuclear war, until quite recently, scholars have made limited critical attempts to understand the cultural manifestations of the nuclear status quo. Films that feature nuclear issues most often simplify and trivialize the subject. They also convey a sense of the ambivalence and anxiety that pervades cultural responses to our nuclear capability. The production of popular narrative films with nuclear topics largely conforms to periods of heightened nuclear awareness or fear, such as the fear of fallout from nuclear testing manifested in the atomic creatures in science fiction movies of the late 1950s. By their very numbers, and through a set of recurring stylistic and narrative conventions, nuclear films reflect a deep-seated cultural anxiety. This study includes detailed textual analysis of films that depict nuclear issues including the development and use of the first atomic bombs, nuclear testing and the fear of fallout, nuclear power, the Cold War arms race, loose nukes, and future nuclear war and its aftermath.(Includes bibliographic references, index, filmography, choronology; Illustrated)

Author : Gabrielle Hecht
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780262300674

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Being Nuclear by Gabrielle Hecht Pdf

The hidden history of African uranium and what it means—for a state, an object, an industry, a workplace—to be “nuclear.” Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In 2003, after the infamous “yellow cake from Niger,” Africa suddenly became notorious as a source of uranium, a component of nuclear weapons. But did that admit Niger, or any of Africa's other uranium-producing countries, to the select society of nuclear states? Does uranium itself count as a nuclear thing? In this book, Gabrielle Hecht lucidly probes the question of what it means for something—a state, an object, an industry, a workplace—to be “nuclear.” Hecht shows that questions about being nuclear—a state that she calls “nuclearity”—lie at the heart of today's global nuclear order and the relationships between “developing nations” (often former colonies) and “nuclear powers” (often former colonizers). Hecht enters African nuclear worlds, focusing on miners and the occupational hazard of radiation exposure. Could a mine be a nuclear workplace if (as in some South African mines) its radiation levels went undetected and unmeasured? With this book, Hecht is the first to put Africa in the nuclear world, and the nuclear world in Africa. By doing so, she remakes our understanding of the nuclear age.

Author : International Atomic Energy Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015043097933

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Developing Safety Culture in Nuclear Activities by International Atomic Energy Agency Pdf

This Safety Report supplements Safety Series No. 75-INSAG-4: Safety Culture (1991) in describing practices that have proved valuable in establishing and maintaining a sound safety culture.