"This interdisciplinary edited collection features historians, anthropologists, artists, and activists who explore a transpacific understanding of the legacies of the testing and use of nuclear weapons. Instead of limiting the focus of the nuclear humanities to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these essays take readers from the New Mexican desert, to the islands of the Pacific Ocean, to small fishing villages on the island of Shikoku in Japan. They bring together different times and places as well as art historical analysis and academic essays. Focusing on themes of resistance, this collection illustrates the varied methods artists and activists can use to combat nuclear regimes through their aesthetic and political work. By putting activists and artists together, it demonstrates the overlaps and linkages between them as well as the different ways political and artistic expression can respond to nuclear threats and effect change. Through the personal testimonies of hibakushas, lawsuits filed to demand compensation for the medical treatment of affected fisherman, community education programs that raise historical awareness, and artistic projects that provide social commentary, this volume illustrates that nuclear resistance can come in many forms"--
From uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed Indigenous lands. Sustained exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons and waste affects many communities from Japan to Oceania to the US West. While antinuclear activism often takes political and legal forms, artistic responses to nuclear regimes also prompt social action and resistance.
Resisting the Nuclear is an interdisciplinary edited collection featuring historians, anthropologists, artists, and activists who explore the multifaceted forms of resistance to nuclear regimes. Through a combination of interviews, scholarly essays, and discussions of contemporary art, contributors recenter the victims of nuclear technologies and demonstrate how political and artistic expression can respond to nuclear threats and effect change.
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"...the attempt to discuss communities around the globe that have all been made to suffer at the hands of the United States' nuclear projects is an admirable act of praxis in a field where "connection" is often discussed but not always prioritized. The legacy of the United States' nuclear violence is not contained to one context, and by employing interdisciplinarity in its methodological and geographic focus, this book attempts something innovative."
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Papildus informācija
A transpacific tour of nuclear humanities
Acknowledgments
Note on Naming and Orthography
Introduction: Visuality, Temporality, Geography
Elyssa Faison and Alison Fields
1 Targeting the Pacific: World War II in Asian American and Pacific Islander
Art
Margo Machida
PART ONE. REMEMBERING ORIGINARY MOMENTS: TRINITY, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI
2 Security and Sacrifice: Nuclear Tourism in New Mexico
Melanie Armstrong
3 A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado: Art and Activism in the Digital Space
Melanie Armstrong, Sarah Kanouse, and Shiloh R. Krupar
4 Atoms for Life and for Death: Nuclear Energy and Hiroshima Activism in the
1950s
Ran Zwigenberg
5 The Politics of Antimonumentalism: An Exhibit in Five Cities
Shinpei Takeda
6 The Antimonument Research Collective
Shuhei Matsukubo, Mariko Mikami, Maika Nakao, and Shinpei Takeda
7 Creating the Atomic Sublime: The Perpetual Production of Nuclear
In/Security
Jennifer Richter and Sherri Wasserman
PART TWO. LEGACIES OF THE BIKINI TEST
8 Resisting US Nuclear Tests: The UN Petition from the Marshall Islands
Seiichiro Takemine
9 Arts Education and the Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall Islands
Jasmine alik, Holly Barker, Keyoka Kabua, Ariana Tibon, and Leimamo Wase
10 Nuclear Temples
Peter Goin
11 Housewives Petitioning for World Peace: Ban-the-Bomb Activism in Cold War
Japan
Akiko Takenaka
12 Voices of Deep-Sea Tuna Fishermen in the Japanese AntiNuclear Test
Movement
Yuka Tsuchiya Moriguchi
PART THREE. TRANSPACIFIC ACTIVISMS
13 A Long Road to Disability Compensation in Cold War America
Naoko Wake
14 Barbara Reynolds and the Politics of Transnational Antinuclear Activism
Elyssa Faison
15 An Interview with Artist Will Wilson
Alison Fields and Will Wilson
16 Food Cultivation as Artistic Activism after Nuclear Disaster
Alison Fields
Contributors
Index
Elyssa Faison is L. R. Brammer Jr. Presidential Professor and associate professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan. Alison Fields is Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of the American West and associate professor at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture. Contributors: Melanie Armstrong, Holly Barker, Elyssa Faison, Alison Fields, Peter Goin, Margo Machida, Yuka Tsuchiya Moriguchi, Jennifer Richter, Shinpei Takeda, Seiichiro Takemine, Akiko Takenaka, Naoko Wake, Sherri Wasserman, and Ran Zwigenberg
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