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. linked to publicly discernible knowledge of the risks associated with nuclear power ... risk and trust in transforming modern societies. Recent sociological theory has apparently discovered evidence of a ...
... risk of uncomfortable discovery. In either mode scientific discourse was arcane to politicians and civil servants with a classical education. In terms of the UK nuclear project one of the farthest reaching, though unintended ...
... risk categories fall. Second, risks which are not acknowledged anywhere within the prevailing regulatory structure are simply not considered. From the nuclear moment on the concentration on goal orientated science produced a ...
... risk-management has been a constant tension. These institutions were created within a very short timescale when euphoria was a dominant cultural feature of the scientific social movement promoting nuclear power and unambiguous political ...
... risk, is another casualty of the nuclear moment. Despite efforts to arrive at a defensible collective dose level, varying radio-sensitivity arising from gender and age differences continues to underline the meaninglessness of such ...
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 | |