Radioactive Ghosts - 9781517907822

Radioactive GhostsAuthor(s): Gabriele Schwab\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9781517907822, 978-1517907822\nSynopsis\nA pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate\n\n Amid resurgent calls for widespread nuclear energy and limited nuclear war, the populations that must live with the consequences of these decisions are increasingly insecure. The nuclear peril combined with the looming threat of climate change means that we are seeing the formation of a new kind of subjectivity: humans who are in a position of perpetual ontological insecurity. In Radioactive Ghosts, Gabriele Schwab articulates a vision of these nuclear subjectivities that we all live with.\n\n Focusing on the legacies of the Manhattan Project, Hiroshima, and nuclear energy politics, Radioactive Ghosts takes us on a tour of the little-seen sides of our nucl.