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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... institutional structures both codify and sediment these concerns by enmeshing them within bureaucracies. Two main consequences follow from this. First, the prevailing distribution of regulatory effort inevitably produces lacunae into ...
... institutions of global governance. The nuclear moment determined, and froze, the membership of the security council of the United Nations (UN); it created the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with its central responsibility for ...
... institutional distribution of science inevitably creates lacunae which may only be revealed by marginal social and cultural processes. This agenda is immediately redolent of the notion of reflexivity central to Beck, Giddens and Lash's ...
... institutional realignment of the sciences necessary for this to be possible is not dealt with nor are the problems associated with the commercial exploitation of the science base within capitalist social relations. Second, the capacity ...
... institutions forecloses the affective and cultural dimensions addressed in this book. Giddens approach to reflexivity appears to overcome this apparent subordination of the affective and cultural. His model gives place of prominence to ...
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 | |