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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Politics and Culture of Waste

About this issue

Waste is never completely or permanently “out of sight.” Once discarded, it undergoes transformations, often reappearing elsewhere in new forms. In this volume of RCC Perspectives, scholars from different disciplines—from history and art history, urban geography, environmental studies, and anthropology—investigate the traces waste leaves behind in the course of its travels.

Content

The Windscale Fire

The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill

Monuments

Monuments

Literary scholar Hsu Hsuan writes about how monuments affect the way we percieve a landscape and its history. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization.”

Nuclear colonialism

Nuclear colonialism

In this chapter of the online exhibition “Representing Environmental Risks in the Landscapes of US Militarization,” literary scholar Hsuan L. Hsu writes about the impacts of US nuclear testing.

Aftermaths

Aftermaths

Literary scholar Hsuan L. Hsu discusses the adverse long-time effects of nuclear weapons testing and waste disposal—protracted impacts which often go unnoticed.

Mapping

Mapping

The cartography of nuclear bombings and nuclear waste can be understood and visualized in different ways depending on who is drawing the map. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization” by literary scholar Hsuan L. Hsu.

Photography

Photography

Despite being subject to censorship and restrictions, photographs of US military bases can reveal patterns of unsustainability. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization,” written and curated by literary scholar Hsu Hsuan.