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Nuclear Forms

Scales, Ecologies, Infrastructures in North American Nuclear Narratives

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Nuclear Forms

Scales, Ecologies, Infrastructures in North American Nuclear Narratives

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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.

Table of Contents

1. “Reading the Nuclear Anthropocene”
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

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Jan 21 2027
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 256
ISBN 9798216394068
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Volume Editor

Lena Pfeifer

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