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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... response is to discount such difficulties on the basis that they will be readily overcome in the future. There are at least two distinct senses in which this displacement into the future operates: problems of basic physics form one ...
... responses. The effortless upper-class superiority of the highest echelons of nuclear science, centred on Oxford and Cambridge, accentuated the gulf between public and expert already entrenched by scientific discourse. In an attempt to ...
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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 | |