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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... social movement seeking to harness public opinion behind a Utopian vision of progress driven by an uncomplicated scientific rationality (Yearley 1988: 2). As an approach towards the struggle for social and political acceptance of the ...
... social movement's agenda. A typical 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 ...
... movement intellectuals where symbolic matters are addressed linguistically ... social milieux both figurative and actual. The rhetorical dimensions ... social phenomenon which is neither technologically or socially reductionist (see Irwin.
... social movement organisations which has proved a lasting influence on my approach to these areas. It was at this stage that I began to see similarities between the efforts of social movement organisations (SMOs), like SCRAM, to organise ...
The Nuclear Moment Ian Welsh. scientific social movement. In all countries the vision of a thoroughgoing scientific and technological transformation of society was advanced by articulating scientific knowledge claims with high prestige ...
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 | |