Taking on technocracy : nuclear power in Germany, 1945 to the present /
The German abandonment of nuclear power represents one of the most successful popular revolts against technocratic thinking in modern times'the triumph of a dynamic social movement, encompassing a broad swath of West Germans as well as East German dissident circles, over political, economic, an...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2018.
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Series: | Protest, culture and society ;
v. 24. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Nuclear dreams and radioactive nightmares: popular culture and the quest for nuclear consensus in East and West Germany, 1945-1970
- On the brink of disaster?: safety regimes and nuclear accidents in the two Germanys
- Dissenting voices: the emergence of counter-experts in West Germany
- From local roots to national prominence: the struggle over Wyhl
- Environmentalism as civil war: Brokdorf-and the consequences
- The shock of Chernobyl and the environmentalist breakthrough in West Germany
- Not immune to error: Chernobyl's impact in the GDR
- Abandoning nuclear power-or not?
- Conclusion.