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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... dominance of private capital in the world system, nation states and coalitions of nation states continue to play a pivotal role in shaping scientific and technological trajectories. They seed-fund new technologies and shape their ...
... dominance and rationality is clearly not operating. Frontiers have been predominantly male zones. In the case of major scientific innovations a number of futures are evoked. Frontier claims are made on epistemological grounds ...
... Far from being automatic guarantors of scientific dominance the kinds of discourse identified by Haraway become central grounds of contestation, conflict and struggle. The notion of ambiguous and contested expert discourses.
... dominance between sciences and between political ideologies which reached its peak in the post-war years effectively shaped the knowledge base of high or late modernity. This is a complex claim which becomes clearer when it is thought ...
... dominance and control within the international sphere introduced new tensions in terms of the rights and obligations of states towards citizens (Welsh 2000). This political quest was closely paralleled by a scientific one. In the ...
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 | |