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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... Central Electricity Authority CEGB Central Electricity Generating Board CND Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament COLA Coalition Of Local Authorities DoE Department of the Environment DSIR Department of Scientific and Industrial Research DTI ...
... central elements of this common sense include: the idea that public acceptance of nuclear power only became problematic in the early 1970s; that prior to this there was a past golden age of public acceptance or at least public ...
... central to the institutional consolidation of science within western civilisation. In particular I have paid attention to scientists' slippage's between discourses, particularly those which involve transitions from professional ...
... central role (e.g. Beck 1992; Giddens 1990, 1991). These assumptions coincide neatly with conventional analyses of modernity which emphasise the displacement of tradition by rational scientific knowledge, faith in progress, the sanctity ...
... central preoccupation of nation states (Vig 1968). So far there is nothing particularly novel in this account. The nuclear moment mobilised modernity in a much more generic sense however. Here I am adopting neither a social nor ...
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 | |