About the Exhibition
This page presents the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions” and its author—historian Nuno Luís Madureira.
Nuclear Humanities showcases interdisciplinary approaches to the problem of nuclear harm through a five-day workshop sponsored by Whitman College’s 2016 O’Donnell Endowed Chair in Global Studies.
An unexpected group of activists, consisting of mostly farmers and vintners, occupied the construction site of a nuclear reactor near the German town of Wyhl in 1975.
Shannon Cram explores the slippery subjectivities of nuclear waste and nature at Washington State’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation, examining how this space is framed as both pristine habitat and waste frontier. She examines Hanford’s biological vector control program through the fruit fly and discusses how vector control uses instances of nuclear trespass to articulate the boundary between contaminated and uncontaminated. She concludes that nature is being recruited to do what the U.S. Department of Energy cannot: solve Hanford’s nuclear waste problem.
Kambe analyzes the masculinist rhetoric of Japanese male writers and intellectuals’ reactions to the 2011 earthquake.
The essays in this collection explore how masculine roles, identities, and practices shape human relationships with the more-than-human world.
Content
This page presents the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions” and its author—historian Nuno Luís Madureira.