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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... expertise becomes a focus for public opposition to nuclear energy. By identifying the 1970s as a point of origin, or founding moment, in this way an earlier period of unproblematic industry public relations are variously implied ...
... expertise' (Wynne 1982). This last assumption is closely aligned with the view of nuclear power as an unstoppable technocratic juggernaut. The classic expression of this position was Jungk's The Nuclear State (1979) though the idea of a ...
... expertise. The term is particularly useful in drawing attention to the way in which assumed social superiority structures relations between science and public and relations between sciences over several decades. 9 The struggle for ...
The Nuclear Moment Ian Welsh. science, expertise and technical progress. In turn the distribution of both research and development and regulatory efforts reflects a combination of extant knowledge and socially and culturally negotiated ...
... expertise as crises of knowledge, neglecting the ensemble of lived social and cultural relations. Further, his work slips back into technocratically driven future orientations which project past trends into the future. Towards the end ...
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 | |