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BEING NUCLEAR: AFRICANS AND THE GLOBAL URANIUM TRADE (MIT By Gabrielle Hecht NEW
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- ISBN-10
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- The MIT Press
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262526867
ISBN-13
9780262526869
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201674673
Product Key Features
Book Title
Being Nuclear : Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Power Resources / Nuclear, Sociology / General, Africa / General, Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
23.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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Being Nuclear has very important things to say about the legacies of empire. Hecht persuasively shows how global nuclear agencies reproduced colonial logics and inequalities... It seems destined to become essential reading for those interested in uranium and Africa, as well as in issues of global nuclearity., Hecht has written the first history of nuclear Africa which, given the importance of the subject and the obstacles she faced, is a major achievement.-- Jock McCulloch , Journal of African History -- Not only does the book stand out as one of the most comprehensive attempts to study the history of uranium mining in Africa, it also caters to an expansive academic audience--from historians of science and technology and sociologists and anthropologists of science, to those taking a broader interest in labour rights, public health issues and mining corporations. -- Jayita Sarkar , The British Journal for the History of Science -- Being Nuclear has very important things to say about the legacies of empire. Hecht persuasively shows how global nuclear agencies reproduced colonial logics and inequalities... It seems destined to become essential reading for those interested in uranium and Africa, as well as in issues of global nuclearity. -- Journal of Modern History --, Hecht has written the first history of nuclear Africa which, given the importance ofthe subject and the obstacles she faced, is a major achievement., Not only does the book stand out as one of the most comprehensive attempts to studythe history of uranium mining in Africa, it also caters to an expansive academic audience -- fromhistorians of science and technology and sociologists and anthropologists of science, to thosetaking a broader interest in labour rights, public health issues and mining corporations., Not only does the book stand out as one of the most comprehensive attempts to study the history of uranium mining in Africa, it also caters to an expansive academic audience--from historians of science and technology and sociologists and anthropologists of science, to those taking a broader interest in labour rights, public health issues and mining corporations., Not only does the book stand out as one of the most comprehensive attempts to study the history of uranium mining in Africa, it also caters to an expansive academic audience -- from historians of science and technology and sociologists and anthropologists of science, to those taking a broader interest in labour rights, public health issues and mining corporations., Hecht has written the first history of nuclear Africa which, given the importance of the subject and the obstacles she faced, is a major achievement.
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
382/.4249096
Synopsis
The hidden history of African uranium and what it means--for a state, an object, an industry, a workplace--to be "nuclear." Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In 2003, after the infamous "yellow cake from Niger," Africa suddenly became notorious as a source of uranium, a component of nuclear weapons. But did 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? In this book, Gabrielle Hecht lucidly probes the question of what it means for something--a state, an object, an industry, a workplace--to be "nuclear." Hecht shows that questions about being nuclear--a state that she calls "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). Hecht enters African nuclear worlds, focusing on miners and the occupational hazard of radiation exposure. Could a mine be a nuclear workplace if (as in some South African mines) its radiation levels went undetected and unmeasured? With this book, Hecht is the first to put Africa in the nuclear world, and the nuclear world in Africa. By doing so, she remakes our understanding of the nuclear age., The hidden history of African uranium and what it means-for a state, an object, an industry, a workplace-to be "nuclear." Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In 2003, after the infamous "yellow cake from Niger," Africa suddenly became notorious as a source of uranium, a component of nuclear weapons. But did 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? In this book, Gabrielle Hecht lucidly probes the question of what it means for something-a state, an object, an industry, a workplace-to be "nuclear." Hecht shows that questions about being nuclear-a state that she calls "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). Hecht enters African nuclear worlds, focusing on miners and the occupational hazard of radiation exposure. Could a mine be a nuclear workplace if (as in some South African mines) its radiation levels went undetected and unmeasured? With this book, Hecht is the first to put Africa in the nuclear world, and the nuclear world in Africa. By doing so, she remakes our understanding of the nuclear age.
LC Classification Number
HD9539.U72A43 2014
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