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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... economies in the world is required.1 Just as the joint stock company transformed the face of capitalism in the nineteenth century, global research and development are transforming the productive and communication bases of the new ...
... economic frontiers leading to newly won or re-established economic prosperity. New frontier, new era, new bright confident future, goes the constellation. The discourse of frontier-speak thus at one and the same time acknowledges ...
... economic cost, technical and scientific viability and so on. In a paradoxical manner appeals for progress through science and technology – the application of rationality – lead to calls for the suspension of rational and economic doubt ...
... economic success and political influence was another. In the context of the time the defence of the realm was an overriding imperative – something which should not be forgotten. At the national level nuclear capability became a defining ...
... economic and political relations with continuing relevance for contemporary Big science controversies such as those surrounding the human genome and genetic engineering in all its guises (Bauer 1995). My characterisation of the nuclear ...
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 | |