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Shiloh R. Krupar - Hot Spotter´s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste - 9780816676385 - V9780816676385
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Hot Spotter´s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste

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Description for Hot Spotter´s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste Hardback. Series: Quadrant Book. Num Pages: 360 pages, 66 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA; RG; TQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.


Many nuclear and other U.S. military facilities from World War II and the Cold War are now being closed and remediated. Some of these sites have even been transformed into nature refuges and hailed as models of environmental stewardship. Yet, as Shiloh R. Krupar argues, these efforts are too often doing less to solve the environmental and health problems caused by military industrialism than they are acting to obscure the reality of ongoing contamination, occupational illnesses, and general conditions of exposure.


Using an unusual combination of empirical research, creative nonfiction, and fictional satire, Hot Spotter’s Report examines how ... Read more


Detecting and exposing such “hot spots” of contamination, in part by satirizing government reports, Hot Spotter’s Report seeks to cultivate irreverence, controversy, coalitional possibility, and ethical responses. The result is a darkly humorous but serious and powerful challenge to the biopolitics of war.


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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Series
Quadrant Book
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816676385
SKU
V9780816676385
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Shiloh R. Krupar
Shiloh R. Krupar is a geographer and assistant professor of culture and politics at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Reviews for Hot Spotter´s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste
"The nuclear remaking of the world is the ambitious theme of Shiloh Krupar’s innovative and often startling new text. Dispatches from a natural world saturated with the toxic products of the U.S. nuclear state perform the uncertain futures, mutant ecologies, and new subjectivities of a post-nuclear America—an important contribution not only to environmental studies, critical theory, and nuclear studies but ... Read more

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