| Portion of title |
Science and the contested histories of radiation exposure |
| Contents |
Part I. Communities and trust. Richland Dock, 1956 / Kathleen Flenniken -- Whole-body counter, Marcus Whitman Elementary / Kathleen Flenniken -- How to start a conversation / Patricia Hoover -- A fledgling scholar's encounter with the Downwinder Project / Adrian Monty -- The first accounts of radiation sickness / Joshua McGuffie -- Reason and risk : challenging the expert and public divide in the risk debates on uranium mining in India / Prerna Gupta -- A darkened organ and a darkened soul : the health effects of uranium exposure on a former Diné (Navajo) mine worker / Oliver George Tapaha -- Rocky Flats health history : making risk visible / Sasha Stiles and Edward Granados -- The town that fell asleep : malignant infrastructures of Soviet-era nuclear ruins in Kazakhstan / Magdalena Edyta Stawkowski -- Part II. International discourse on harm. How to hide a nuclear explosion : French secrets about Saharan fallout across decolonizing Africa / Austin R. Cooper -- Exposing contested sovereignties : Morocco and French atomic testing in the Sahara / Matthew Adamson -- "Carrying the can for Chernobyl" : visualizing radioactive contamination in sheep in North Wales / Joshua McMullan -- Diplomatic fallout : nuclear power and Cold War diplomacy from Three Mile Island to Chernobyl / William M. Knoblauch -- Nuclear weapons, ionizing radiation, and the principle of unnecessary suffering / Jaroslav Krasny -- Reflections on the Golden Rule / Halen Jaccard -- Part III. Remembering and forgetting. Marshallese downwinders and a shared nuclear legacy of global proportions / Desmond Narain Doulatram -- Our action now, our future, our resilience / Desmond Narain Doulatram -- History uncontained at the B reactor / Jeffrey C. Sanders -- Playing games on the graves of the dead : commemoration, forgetting, and ways of knowing in Richland, Washington / Sarah Fox -- 75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki : public address on August 6, 2020, for the Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility event commemorating 75 years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki / Yukiyo Kawano -- Story that won't end well / Kathleen Flenniken. |
| Abstract |
"Many of the effects of nuclear fallout and radiation have been intentionally hidden by governments around the world. Public knowledge has been driven by activists demanding recognition and justice. Many Downwinders fought for years, in the press and in the courts, to have their health and environmental concerns taken seriously. Just as radiation is invisible, many of these stories continue to be unseen. From 2017 to 2020, Jacob Hamblin and Linda Richards facilitated the Oregon State University Downwinders Project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, to support research and scholarship on the Downwinders cases near the Hanford nuclear site in Washington. Additionally, each summer the project team sponsored a workshop that brought a variety of stakeholders together to explore the science, history, and lived history of radiation exposure. These workshops took a broad view of nuclear contamination, beyond Hanford, beyond the United States, and beyond academia. Community members and activists presented their testimonies and creative work alongside scholars studying exposure worldwide. Making the Unseen Visible collects some of the best work arising from the project and its workshops. Scholarly research chapters and reflective essays cover topics and experiences ranging from colonial nuclear testing in North Africa to uranium mining in the Navajo Nation and battles over public memory around Hanford. Scholarship on nuclear topics has largely happened on a case study basis, focusing on individual disasters or locations. Making the Unseen Visible brings a variety of current community and scholarly work together to create a clearer, larger web uniting nuclear humanities research across time and geography."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2023046888 |
| ISBN | 0870712535 (trade paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780870712531 (trade paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
