Unmaking the Bomb

Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-39512-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 222 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 296 g

Reihe: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cram, Shannon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Folgen von Katastrophen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Abfallbeseitigung, Abfallentsorgung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallentsorgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Shannon Cram is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell.