Many of the effects of nuclear fallout and radiation have been intentionally hidden by governments around the world, and public knowledge has been driven by activists demanding recognition and justice. Many downwinders fought for years, in the press and in the courts, to have their health and environmental concerns taken seriously. Although these battles have taken place worldwide, one of the most significant has been the extended legal battle around the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington and the controversial Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project.
From 2017 to 2020, Jacob Hamblin and Linda Richards ran the Oregon State University Downwinders Project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, to support research and scholarship on the Hanford downwinders cases. Additionally, each summer the project team sponsored a workshop that brought a variety of stakeholders together to explore the science, history, and lived experiences of nuclear exposure. These workshops took a broad view of nuclear exposure, beyond Hanford, beyond the United States, and beyond academia. Community members and activists presented their testimonies and creative work alongside scholars studying exposure worldwide.
Making the Unseen Visible collects the best work arising from the project and its workshops. Scholarly research chapters and reflective essays cover topics and experiences ranging from colonial nuclear testing in North Africa, to Hiroshima survivor stories, to uranium mining in the Navajo Nation, to battles over public memory around Hanford. Scholarship on nuclear topics has largely happened on a case study basis, focusing on individual disasters or locations. Making the Unseen Visible brings a variety of current community and scholarly work together to create a clearer, larger web uniting nuclear humanities research across time and geography.
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From 2017 to 2020, Jacob Hamblin and Linda Richards ran the Oregon State University Downwinders Project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, to support research and scholarship on the Hanford downwinders cases. Additionally, each summer the project team sponsored a workshop that brought a variety of stakeholders together to explore the science, history, and lived experiences of nuclear exposure. These workshops took a broad view of nuclear exposure, beyond Hanford, beyond the United States, and beyond academia. Community members and activists presented their testimonies and creative work alongside scholars studying exposure worldwide.
Making the Unseen Visible collects the best work arising from the project and its workshops. Scholarly research chapters and reflective essays cover topics and experiences ranging from colonial nuclear testing in North Africa, to Hiroshima survivor stories, to uranium mining in the Navajo Nation, to battles over public memory around Hanford. Scholarship on nuclear topics has largely happened on a case study basis, focusing on individual disasters or locations. Making the Unseen Visible brings a variety of current community and scholarly work together to create a clearer, larger web uniting nuclear humanities research across time and geography.
Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure
Many of the effects of nuclear fallout and radiation have been intentionally hidden by governments around the world, and public knowledge has been driven by activists demanding recognition and justice. Many downwinders fought for years, in the press and in the courts, to have their health and environmental concerns taken seriously. Although these battles have taken place worldwide, one of the most significant has been the extended legal battle around the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington and the controversial Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project.
From 2017 to 2020, Jacob Hamblin and Linda Richards ran the Oregon State University Downwinders Project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, to support research and scholarship on the Hanford downwinders cases. Additionally, each summer the project team sponsored a workshop that brought a variety of stakeholders together to explore the science, history, and lived experiences of nuclear exposure. These workshops took a broad view of nuclear exposure, beyond Hanford, beyond the United States, and beyond academia. Community members and activists presented their testimonies and creative work alongside scholars studying exposure worldwide.
Making the Unseen Visible collects the best work arising from the project and its workshops. Scholarly research chapters and reflective essays cover topics and experiences ranging from colonial nuclear testing in North Africa, to Hiroshima survivor stories, to uranium mining in the Navajo Nation, to battles over public memory around Hanford. Scholarship on nuclear topics has largely happened on a case study basis, focusing on individual disasters or locations. Making the Unseen Visible brings a variety of current community and scholarly work together to create a clearer, larger web uniting nuclear humanities research across time and geography.
From 2017 to 2020, Jacob Hamblin and Linda Richards ran the Oregon State University Downwinders Project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, to support research and scholarship on the Hanford downwinders cases. Additionally, each summer the project team sponsored a workshop that brought a variety of stakeholders together to explore the science, history, and lived experiences of nuclear exposure. These workshops took a broad view of nuclear exposure, beyond Hanford, beyond the United States, and beyond academia. Community members and activists presented their testimonies and creative work alongside scholars studying exposure worldwide.
Making the Unseen Visible collects the best work arising from the project and its workshops. Scholarly research chapters and reflective essays cover topics and experiences ranging from colonial nuclear testing in North Africa, to Hiroshima survivor stories, to uranium mining in the Navajo Nation, to battles over public memory around Hanford. Scholarship on nuclear topics has largely happened on a case study basis, focusing on individual disasters or locations. Making the Unseen Visible brings a variety of current community and scholarly work together to create a clearer, larger web uniting nuclear humanities research across time and geography.
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| ISBN-13: | 9780870712548 |
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| Publisher: | Oregon State University Press |
| Publication date: | 11/13/2023 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 400 |
| File size: | 1 MB |
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