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7%OFFPeter C. Van Wyck - Signs Of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat - 9780816637638 - V9780816637638
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Signs Of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat

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Description for Signs Of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 13ill.4fig.1M. BIC Classification: RNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 249 x 177 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.

Questions the literal burying of the nuclear threat and how it relates to expectations for our future

A rising ocean. A falling building. A toxic river. Species extinguished. A nuclear landscape. In a world so configured, the state of contemporary ecological thought and practice is woefully—and perilously—inadequate. Focusing on the government’s nuclear waste burial program in Carlsbad, New Mexico, Signs of Danger begins the urgent work of finding a new way of thinking about ecological threat in our time.

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad began receiving shipments in 1999. With a proposed closing date of 2030, this repository for nuclear ... Read more

The reflections at the center of this book—on memory, trauma, disaster, representation, and the virtual—are aimed at defining the uniquely modern status of environmental and nuclear threats. They offer invaluable insights into the interface of where culture ends and nature begins, and how such a juncture is closely linked with questions of risk, concepts of history, and the cultural experience of time.

Winner of the 2005 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize of the Canadian Communication Association Show Less

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816637638
SKU
V9780816637638
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About Peter C. Van Wyck
Peter C. van Wyck is associate professor of communication at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. He is the author of Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject.

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