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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... importance. As the scale, speed and impact of new technologies upon societies intensifies, a deep sociological ... important, the historically constituted processes through which nuclear technologies have become socially defined as ...
... important because of the way they over-map much more abstract theoretical debates about the apparent crisis of ... importance at the start of the twenty-first century where they have become writ large within a wider environmental agenda ...
... important to pay attention to the particular discourses which are constructed around particular technologies. The extent to which a technological narrative articulates sympathetically with other ascendant discourses plays a crucial role ...
... important in structuring contemporary public – science relations in terms of institutionally defined issues of trust ... importance to the extent that they direct attention towards distant time horizons and away from more immediate time ...
... important discourse in the advance of all scientific social movement's projects. In terms of the atomic science movement the cultural capital and prominence enjoyed by physics in the aftermath of the successful testing and use of 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 | |