Mobilising Modernity: The Nuclear MomentDuring the nuclear heyday of the post-war years advocates of atomic power promised cheap electricity and a prosperous future. From the present, however, this promise seems tarnished by accidents, leaks and a lack of public confidence. Mobilising Modernity traces this journey from confidence in technology to the anxieties of the Risk Society questioning a number of conventional wisdoms en route. |
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... (Touraine 1983; Joppke 1993; Rudig 1990; Flam 1994). The historians' invitation to approach the development of nuclear power as a study of the post-war development of societies in microcosm has remained largely unanswered. Instead ...
... Touraine's work where he discussed the role of new social movements as innovators, inventors of new modes of engagement (Touraine 1981, 1983, 1985, 1995). Before I can elaborate on this it is necessary for me to be clear about the way I ...
... Touraine (1981, 1983, 1995) and Alberto Melucci (1985, 1989, 1996, 1996a) NSMs were simultaneously about a field of intervention, a substantive issue, and a much wider conflict over the dominant symbolic codes defining a society. It is ...
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Contents
The nuclear moment | |
Resisting the juggernaut Opposition in the 1950s | |
Accidents will happen | |
Modernitys mobilization stalls | |
The moment of direct action | |
Networking Direct action and collective refusal | |
Conclusions | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Author index | |