Nuclear Forms
Scales, Ecologies, Infrastructures in North American Nuclear Narratives
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Description
Nuclear Forms extends the more recent approach of attending to the narratives of the broader networks of living in the nuclear age, focusing in particular on the ongoing cultural legacies and material realities of nuclear technology after the end of the Cold War. By shifting attention from the Cold War to these broader entanglements, the contributions to this collection make explicit what has often remained implicit in much of this recent scholarship: namely, that the nuclear is not only analogous to or overlaps with a number of concerns crucial to current research in the Environmental Humanities but that we also need to understand and take seriously the Nuclear Age and the Anthropocene as co-constitutive. As such, the individual chapters in this collection attend to instances of nuclear concerns becoming environmental and vice versa, understanding the core concerns such as risk, vulnerability, planetarity, etc. shaping the fields of nuclear scholarship and the Environmental Humanities as mutually enlightening each other. The collection therefore builds on recent work by scholars, which shifts the focus from the nuclear as imaginary to the nuclear as material presence; from the nuclear as exceptional occurrence to mundane infrastructure; from the nuclear as sudden event to its incremental effects; and from the nuclear as integral to the Cold War conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union to the many communities experiencing the ramification of nuclear technology in both its military and civilian uses.
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Table of Contents
Hannah Klaubert
SECTION 1: SCALES
2. “Environmental Racism and Toxicity in North American Storytelling”
Paula Wieczorek
3. “'She Called It a Nuclear Ripple': Intergenerational Dialogue within (Post)Cold War Nuclear Precarity in Rachel Barenbaum's Atomic Anna (2022)”
Inna Häkkinen
4. “Nuclear Acosmism and the Second Death of Icarus”
Doron Darnov
5. “NUKE MARS!”: Discourses of Terraforming in the New Nuclear Age
Jens Temmen
SECTION 2: ECOLOGIES
6. “The Monster at the End of the World? Godzilla, from Nuclear Age to Chthulucene”
Marie Beckmann
7. “Postapocalyptic Plots and Lucid Logics: Individualism and Community in the Landscape of the TV Show Fallout (2024)”
Stefan Schubert
8. “Becoming a Nuclear Family: The Nuclear and Ecological Kinship in Susanne Antonetta's Body Toxic”
Annika M. Schadewaldt
9. “Nuclear Disaster and Oceanic Kinship in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being”
Angela Fung
SECTION 3: INFRASTRUCTURES
10. “Against the Laboratory Thesis: Decolonial Ecologies of Nuclear Militarism”
Ding-Liang Chen
11. “'The Version of the World They Rendered for Us:' Suburban Containment in Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides”
Sofía Martinicorena
12. “Nuclear Landscapes as Knowledge Infrastructures”
Lena Pfeifer
13. “Picturing Radiation: Genealogies of Seeing in the Nuclear Anthropocene”
Madeline Becker
POSTFACE
Tom Nurmi
Product details
| Published | 10 Dec 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9798216394044 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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