Resisting the Nuclear
Art and Activism across the Pacific
Elyssa Faison editor Alison Fields editor Laura Kina editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Washington Press
Published:16th Jan '24
Should be back in stock very soon
A transpacific tour of nuclear humanitiesFrom uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed Indigenous lands. Sustained exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons and waste affects many communities from Japan to Oceania to the US West. While antinuclear activism often takes political and legal forms, artistic responses to nuclear regimes also prompt social action and resistance.
Resisting the Nuclear is an interdisciplinary edited collection featuring historians, anthropologists, artists, and activists who explore the multifaceted forms of resistance to nuclear regimes. Through a combination of interviews, scholarly essays, and discussions of contemporary art, contributors recenter the victims of nuclear technologies and demonstrate how political and artistic expression can respond to nuclear threats and effect change.
"[The] important recurrence of the hibakusha (a Japanese term for survivors of the atom-bomb) by contributors is part of a broader privileging of the voice of direct sufferers, survivors and indigenous actors. . . . Resisting the Nuclear effectively enables us to grapple with the complicated devastation of the nuclear, and the diverse and resilient forms of resistance that have emerged in its wake against it. This volume will undoubtedly provoke other scholars, activists, artists and more actors to imagine other anti-nuclear futures, and even, perhaps, to bring them about."
* LSE Review of Books *"The legacy of the United States' nuclear violence is not contained to one context, and by employing interdisciplinarity in its methodological and geographic focus, this book attempts something innovative."
* H-Net *"[A]n absorbing and welcome contribution to the nuclear humanities . . . . Resisting the Nuclear demonstrates the potency of artistic practice as a mechanism of resistance to the harms and proliferation of nuclear technologies, capable of grounding abstract discussions of global nuclearism in local particularities, affective and embodied experiences, and intergenerational projects of resilience and resistance."
* Western Historical QuarterISBN: 9780295752341
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 771g
344 pages