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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The Nuclear Moment Ian Welsh. Figures. 6.1 Direct action at Torness, November 1979. Photograph courtesy of Holden Collection. 7.1 Hot core transporter passing through Bentham, North Yorkshire. Photograph courtesy of Bern Woodhouse. 7.2 ...
The Nuclear Moment Ian Welsh. LWR International Commission on Radiological Protection Light Water Reactor NIMBY NRPB Not In My Back Yard National Radiological Protection Board NUM National Union of Mineworkers PWR Pressurised Water ...
The Nuclear Moment Ian Welsh. This last point is one prominent amongst industry commentators (e.g. Pocock 1977) and one ... (Welsh 1996, 1999). Despite this, large corporatist science reliant on state sector finance continues to colonise ...
... Welsh 1994). Asserting faith in progress Within modernity scientific and technical progress assume such an axiomatic position that it becomes almost impossible to question progress without the automatic application of the label Luddite ...
... Welsh 2000 in Adam et al.). In this manner I question whether modernity has ever been the unambiguously rational enterprise which standard interpretations of Weberian theory suggest. By adopting Donna Haraway's (1992) argument that ...
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 | |