Shannon Cram

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Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility Volume 14Hardcover, 10 October 2023

Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility Volume 14
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Part of Series
Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
Print Length
229 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of California Press
Date Published
10 Oct 2023
ISBN-10
0520395115
ISBN-13
9780520395114

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What does it mean to reckon with a contaminated world? In Unmaking the Bomb, Shannon Cram considers the complex social politics of this question and the regulatory infrastructures designed to answer it. Blending history, ethnography, and memoir, she investigates remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a former weapons complex in Washington State. Home to the majority of the nation's high-level nuclear waste and its largest environmental cleanup, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that will long outlast the United States and its institutional capacities. Cram examines the embodied uncertainties and structural impossibilities integral to that endeavor. In particular, this lyrical book engages in a kind of narrative contamination, toggling back and forth between cleanup's administrative frames and the stories that overspill them. It spends time with the statistical people that inhabit cleanup's metrics and models and the nonstatistical people that live with their effects. And, in the process, it explores the uneven social relations that make toxicity a normative condition.

Product Details

Author:
Shannon Cram
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
10 October 2023
Genre:
Ecology
ISBN-10:
0520395115
ISBN-13:
9780520395114
Language:
English
Pages:
229

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