ISBN:
9780520395114
,
9780520395121
Language:
English
Pages:
214 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Critical environments: nature, science, and politics 14
Series Statement:
Critical environments
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cram, Shannon, 1980- Unmaking the bomb
DDC:
363.72/890979751
Keywords:
Radioactive waste sites Cleanup
;
Hanford Site (Wash.)
Abstract:
"Unmaking the Bomb investigates the politics of waste, exposure, and cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a former weapons complex in Washington State. Once the heart of American plutonium production, Hanford is now engaged in the nation's largest environmental remediation effort, managing toxic materials that will long outlast their regulatory containers. This book blends ethnographic research with personal narrative to examine cleanup's administrative frames and the stories that exceed them. It describes how the body-at-risk became a waste management tool, and how reckoning with contamination informs the very definitions of health and hazard in the United States"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 181-205
