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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... modernist illusion of control, order, dominance and rationality is clearly not operating. Frontiers have been predominantly male zones ... peak modernity. Discounting residual difficulties into the future scientific or technical difficulties.
... peak. modernity. I first used the notion of peak modernity in a paper on nuclear politics given at the University of Bristol in 1990. Nuclear power is one of the most obvious and contested technologies of peak modernity. By peak modernity ...
... ethos of peak modernity became part of a prevailing programme. The social assumptions underlying this programme were dominated by faith in rational science, expertise and technical progress. In turn the distribution of.
... peak modernity though I would not go so far as to argue that this constituted a specifically nuclear modernity as Irwin has suggested (2000). The success of such techniques within the atomic bomb project legitimated their general ...
... modernity came to an end during the nuclear moment. The final new sensibility arising from peak modernity and mobilised by the nuclear moment is the recognition, first made within the nuclear arms race, that the pursuit of technical ...
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 | |