1st Edition
Living in a Nuclear World From Fukushima to Hiroshima
Introduction: Shaping the Nuclear Order
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Soraya Boudia and Kyoko Sato
Section 1: Violence and Order
1. What the Bomb Has Done: Victim Relief, Knowledge, and Politics
Kyoko Sato
2. Optics of Exposure
Joseph Masco
3. Constructing World Order: Mobilizing Tropes of Gender, Pathology and Race to Frame US Non-Proliferation Policy
John Krige
4. The Nuclear Charter: International Law, Military Technology, and the Making of Strategic Trusteeship, 1942–1947
Mary X. Mitchell
Section 2: Pacifying Through Control and Containment
5. Sharing the "Safe" Atom?: The International Atomic Energy Agency and Nuclear Regulation Through Standardization
Angela N. H. Creager and Maria Rentetzi
6. From Military Surveillance to Citizen Counter-Expertise: Radioactivity Monitoring in a Nuclear World
Nestor Herran
7. Making the Accident Hypothetical: How Can One Deal with the Potential Nuclear Disaster?
Maël Goumri
8. Governing the Nuclear Waste Problem: Nature and Technology
Tania Navarro Rodríguez
Section 3: Normalizing Through Denial and Trivialization
9. Trivializing Life in Long-Term Contaminated Areas. The Nuclear Political Laboratory
Soraya Boudia
10. Continuing Nuclear Tests and Ending Fish Inspections: Politics, Science, and the Lucky Dragon Incident in 1954
Hiroko Takahashi
11. The Dystopic Pieta: Chernobyl Survivors and Neo-Liberalism’s Lasting Judgments
Kate Brown
12. Unfolding Time at Fukushima
Harry Bernas
Section 4: Timescaping Through Memory and Future Visions
13. Framing a Nuclear Order of Time
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
14. Nuclear Dreams and Capitalist Visions: The Peaceful Atom in Hiroshima
Ran Zwigenberg
15. Slow Disaster and the Challenge of Nuclear Memory
Scott Gabriel Knowles
Biography
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent is a historian and philosopher of science and technology, and Professor (Emeritus) at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Soraya Boudia is a historian of science and Professor of Science, Technology and Society at University of Paris.
Kyoko Sato is a sociologist and science and technology studies scholar, and Associate Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Standford University.
