{"product_id":"radioactive-ghosts-paperback-softback-9781517907839","title":"Radioactive Ghosts (Paperback \/ softback) 9781517907839","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRadioactive Ghosts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGabriele Schwab (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517907839\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 October 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 23 B-W Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.488 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book, a wake-up call and a tour de force of wide-ranging interdisciplinary scholarship, is beautifully written and accessible; Gabriele Schwab moves nuclear power discourse further by focusing on aspects rarely addressed together, like psychic, racial, gender and class implications. Her short personal interludes add yet another layer of meaning. \u003ci\u003eRadioactive Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e should be required reading for everyone hoping the human species can survive.\"-E. Ann Kaplan, author of \u003ci\u003eClimate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The innocent sounding Manhattan project forever put a Damocles sword on human existence. The first uranium that made the Project possible was dug from Africa. Drawing parallels between the extraction of uranium and the extraction of slave labor, Gabriele Schwab shows the prominent role of colonialism and race in the politics of nuclear production and possession. \u003ci\u003eRadioactive Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e, with its clarity of prose and thought, reminds us that we humans have only the one planet. Why, oh, why should any nation be proud that they have the capacity to destroy all planetary life? Exorcise these radioactive ghosts by banning and destroying all these weapons of human destruction. End this MADNESS.\"-Ngugi wa Thiong'o, author of \u003ci\u003eWrestling with the Devil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Gabrielle Schwab’s thought-provoking book makes a timely contribution to the on-going nuclear debate.\"-\u003ci\u003eJournal of Peace Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eRadioactive Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e, Gabriele Schwab articulates a vision of these “nuclear subjectivities” that we all live with.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Focusing on the legacies of the Manhattan Project, Hiroshima, and nuclear energy politics, \u003ci\u003eRadioactive Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e takes us on a tour of the little-seen sides of our nuclear world. Examining devastating uranium mining on Native lands, nuclear sacrifice zones, the catastrophic accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima, and the formation of a new transspecies ethics, Schwab shows how individuals threatened with extinction are creating new adaptations, defenses, and communal spaces. Ranging from personal accounts of experiences with radiation to in-depth readings of literature, film, art, and scholarly works, Schwab gives us a complex, idiosyncratic, and personal analysis of one of the most overlooked issues of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface: Of Three-Eyed Fish and Other Ghostings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Why Nuclear Necropolitics Today?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I. Nuclear Subjectivities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. No Apocalypse, Not Now: Derrida and the Nuclear Unconscious\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Nuclear Colonialism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Critical Nuclear Race Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. The Gender of Nuclear Subjectivities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterlude: Children of the Nuclear Age\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith Simon J. Ortiz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II. Haunting from the Future\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. The Afterlife of Nuclear Catastrophes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Hiroshima’s Ghostly Shadows\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Postnuclear Madness and Nuclear Crypts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. Transspecies Selves: Intimacies, Extimacies, Animacies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCoda: Postnuclear Ecologies: Language, Body, and Affect in Beckett’s \u003ci\u003eHappy Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681286517016,"sku":"9781517907839","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/radioactive-ghosts-paperback-softback-9781517907839","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}