Signs Of Danger : Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat /

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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 reflections at the center of this book-on memory, trauma, disaster, representation, and the virtual...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Wyck, Peter C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (N.M.)
Threat (Psychology)
Signs and symbols.
Radioactive wastes > Environmental aspects.
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground.
Psychic trauma.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
symbols.
Signes et symboles.
Traumatisme psychique.
Menace (Psychologie)
Dechets radioactifs > Élimination dans le sol.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 reflections at the center of this book-on memory, trauma, disaster, representation, and the virtual-offer invaluable insights into the interface of where culture ends and nature begins.
Physical Description:1 online resource (184 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780816692590

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