Uranium: Is it a country?
This film examines the processes and politics involved in mining uranium at sites such as the Olympic Dam in Australia and transporting it to Europe in order to generate nuclear power.
This film examines the processes and politics involved in mining uranium at sites such as the Olympic Dam in Australia and transporting it to Europe in order to generate nuclear power.
This film examines the limitations and contradictions of finding safe places for nuclear waste storage.
The paper “Evaluating the ‘Ethical Matrix’ as a Radioactive Waste Management Deliberative Decision-Support Tool” by Matthew Cotton outlines the strengths and limitations of the matrix as well as a framework for the development of alternative tools to better satisfy the needs of ethical assessment in radioactive waste management decision-making processes.
Exploring the cultural and environmental transformation of Rocky Flats from military industrial complex to protected habitat.
Shannon Cram explores the slippery subjectivities of nuclear waste and nature at Washington State’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation, examining how this space is framed as both pristine habitat and waste frontier. She examines Hanford’s biological vector control program through the fruit fly and discusses how vector control uses instances of nuclear trespass to articulate the boundary between contaminated and uncontaminated. She concludes that nature is being recruited to do what the U.S. Department of Energy cannot: solve Hanford’s nuclear waste problem.
Stefan Skrimshire considers the ethical question of how to communicate with future human societies in terms of long-term disposal of radioactive fuel. He proposes that the confessional form (as propagated by Saint Augustine and critiqued by Derrida) may become increasingly pertinent to activists, artists, and faith communities making sense of humanity’s ethical commitments in deep time.
Nuclear Humanities showcases interdisciplinary approaches to the problem of nuclear harm through a five-day workshop sponsored by Whitman College’s 2016 O’Donnell Endowed Chair in Global Studies.
Astrid M. Eckert’s West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Kate Brown is interviewed on her new book, Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future.
This is the introductory page of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risks in the Landscapes of US Militarization”—written and curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu.