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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... potential list of acknowledgements is formidable. I would however, like to acknowledge the following people who contributed in a variety of ways to this project. Rosemary McKechnie, Brian Wynne, Paul Smoker, Andrew Tickle, Barbara Adam ...
... potential for new social movements to enter into what Flam has termed 'state space' (1994). As I have hinted earlier one of my primary concerns has been to establish an archaeology of knowledge claims deployed around the nuclear case ...
... potential of modernity celebrated by Marx in the Manifesto has alternately been lost within an iron cage of Weberian rationality or displaced by a phantasmogoric dance of electronic images by post-modernists. I want to argue that ...
... potential for scientific and rational progress, not only in the nuclear sphere, but in a much wider sense. The appearance that, given sufficient resources, science could solve any problem fuelled the ascendancy of technocratic dominance ...
... potential of nuclear weapons and the need to police the putative divide between civil and military applications helped create and structure early institutions of global governance. The nuclear moment determined, and froze, 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 | |