The Resource Being nuclear : Africans and the global uranium trade, Gabrielle Hecht, (electronic book)
Being nuclear : Africans and the global uranium trade, Gabrielle Hecht, (electronic book)
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- Summary
- Remaking our understanding of the nuclear age, the author is the first to put Africa in the nuclear world, and the nuclear world in Africa. Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, but does that admit Niger, or any of Africa's other uranium-producing countries, to the select society of nuclear states? Does uranium itself count as a nuclear thing? She lucidly probes the question of what it means for something--a state, an object, an industry, a workplace--to be "nuclear." She then enters African nuclear worlds, focusing on miners and the occupational hazard of radiation exposure and asks, could a mine be a nuclear workplace if (as in some South African mines) its radiation levels went undetected and unmeasured? These questions about being nuclear--"nuclearity"--Lie at the heart of today's global nuclear order and the relationships between "developing nations" (often former colonies) and "nuclear powers" (often former colonizers). Nuclearity is not a straightforward scientific classification but a contested technopolitical one. The author follows uranium's path out of Africa and describes the invention of the global uranium market
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Being nuclear : Africans and the global uranium trade
- Title
- Being nuclear
- Title remainder
- Africans and the global uranium trade
- Statement of responsibility
- Gabrielle Hecht
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Remaking our understanding of the nuclear age, the author is the first to put Africa in the nuclear world, and the nuclear world in Africa. Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, but does that admit Niger, or any of Africa's other uranium-producing countries, to the select society of nuclear states? Does uranium itself count as a nuclear thing? She lucidly probes the question of what it means for something--a state, an object, an industry, a workplace--to be "nuclear." She then enters African nuclear worlds, focusing on miners and the occupational hazard of radiation exposure and asks, could a mine be a nuclear workplace if (as in some South African mines) its radiation levels went undetected and unmeasured? These questions about being nuclear--"nuclearity"--Lie at the heart of today's global nuclear order and the relationships between "developing nations" (often former colonies) and "nuclear powers" (often former colonizers). Nuclearity is not a straightforward scientific classification but a contested technopolitical one. The author follows uranium's path out of Africa and describes the invention of the global uranium market
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hecht, Gabrielle
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Uranium industry
- Uranium industry
- Uranium mines and mining
- Nuclear energy
- Label
- Being nuclear : Africans and the global uranium trade, Gabrielle Hecht, (electronic book)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Color
- multicolored
- Control code
- ebr10537987
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- xx, 451 p.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9780262301442
- Original version note
- Original electronic resource
- Other physical details
- ill., maps.
- Reproduction note
- Electronic resource.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- Being nuclear : Africans and the global uranium trade, Gabrielle Hecht, (electronic book)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Color
- multicolored
- Control code
- ebr10537987
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- xx, 451 p.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9780262301442
- Original version note
- Original electronic resource
- Other physical details
- ill., maps.
- Reproduction note
- Electronic resource.
- Specific material designation
- remote
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