Resisting the Nuclear
Art and Activism across the Pacific
Published on 16. January 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
344 pages
978-0-295-75234-1 (ISBN)
Description
A transpacific tour of nuclear humanitiesFrom uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed Indigenous lands. Sustained exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons and waste affects many communities from Japan to Oceania to the US West. While antinuclear activism often takes political and legal forms, artistic responses to nuclear regimes also prompt social action and resistance.
Resisting the Nuclear is an interdisciplinary edited collection featuring historians, anthropologists, artists, and activists who explore the multifaceted forms of resistance to nuclear regimes. Through a combination of interviews, scholarly essays, and discussions of contemporary art, contributors recenter the victims of nuclear technologies and demonstrate how political and artistic expression can respond to nuclear threats and effect change.
Resisting the Nuclear is an interdisciplinary edited collection featuring historians, anthropologists, artists, and activists who explore the multifaceted forms of resistance to nuclear regimes. Through a combination of interviews, scholarly essays, and discussions of contemporary art, contributors recenter the victims of nuclear technologies and demonstrate how political and artistic expression can respond to nuclear threats and effect change.
Reviews / Votes
"[The] important recurrence of the hibakusha (a Japanese term for survivors of the atom-bomb) by contributors is part of a broader privileging of the voice of direct sufferers, survivors and indigenous actors. . . . Resisting the Nuclear effectively enables us to grapple with the complicated devastation of the nuclear, and the diverse and resilient forms of resistance that have emerged in its wake against it. This volume will undoubtedly provoke other scholars, activists, artists and more actors to imagine other anti-nuclear futures, and even, perhaps, to bring them about." * LSE Review of Books * "The legacy of the United States' nuclear violence is not contained to one context, and by employing interdisciplinarity in its methodological and geographic focus, this book attempts something innovative." * H-Net * "[A]n absorbing and welcome contribution to the nuclear humanities . . . . Resisting the Nuclear demonstrates the potency of artistic practice as a mechanism of resistance to the harms and proliferation of nuclear technologies, capable of grounding abstract discussions of global nuclearism in local particularities, affective and embodied experiences, and intergenerational projects of resilience and resistance." * Western Historical Quarterly * "This edited collection presents a fascinating, often variable account of activism and art in response to nuclear colonialism. . . . [A] powerful overview of Pacific art and activism and a snapshot of a diverse antinuclear movement that is very much still in motion." * Technology and Culture *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 1 Maps; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, color; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 181 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
784 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-295-75234-1 (9780295752341)
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Persons
Elyssa Faison is L. R. Brammer Jr. Presidential Professor and associate professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan. Alison Fields is Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of the American West and associate professor at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture. Contributors: Melanie Armstrong, Holly Barker, Elyssa Faison, Alison Fields, Peter Goin, Margo Machida, Yuka Tsuchiya Moriguchi, Jennifer Richter, Shinpei Takeda, Seiichiro Takemine, Akiko Takenaka, Naoko Wake, Sherri Wasserman, and Ran Zwigenberg
Content
Acknowledgments
Note on Naming and Orthography
Introduction: Visuality, Temporality, Geography
Elyssa Faison and Alison Fields
1 Targeting the Pacific: World War II in Asian American and Pacific Islander Art
Margo Machida
PART ONE. REMEMBERING ORIGINARY MOMENTS: TRINITY, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI
2 Security and Sacrifice: Nuclear Tourism in New Mexico
Melanie Armstrong
3 A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado: Art and Activism in the Digital Space
Melanie Armstrong, Sarah Kanouse, and Shiloh R. Krupar
4 Atoms for Life and for Death: Nuclear Energy and Hiroshima Activism in the 1950s
Ran Zwigenberg
5 The Politics of Antimonumentalism: An Exhibit in Five Cities
Shinpei Takeda
6 The Antimonument Research Collective
Shuhei Matsukubo, Mariko Mikami, Maika Nakao, and Shinpei Takeda
7 Creating the Atomic Sublime: The Perpetual Production of Nuclear In/Security
Jennifer Richter and Sherri Wasserman
PART TWO. LEGACIES OF THE BIKINI TEST
8 Resisting US Nuclear Tests: The UN Petition from the Marshall Islands
Seiichiro Takemine
9 Arts Education and the Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall Islands
Jasmine alik, Holly Barker, Keyoka Kabua, Ariana Tibon, and Leimamo Wase
10 Nuclear Temples
Peter Goin
11 Housewives Petitioning for World Peace: Ban-the-Bomb Activism in Cold War Japan
Akiko Takenaka
12 Voices of Deep-Sea Tuna Fishermen in the Japanese Anti-Nuclear Test Movement
Yuka Tsuchiya Moriguchi
PART THREE. TRANSPACIFIC ACTIVISMS
13 A Long Road to Disability Compensation in Cold War America
Naoko Wake
14 Barbara Reynolds and the Politics of Transnational Antinuclear Activism
Elyssa Faison
15 An Interview with Artist Will Wilson
Alison Fields and Will Wilson
16 Food Cultivation as Artistic Activism after Nuclear Disaster
Alison Fields
Contributors
Index
Note on Naming and Orthography
Introduction: Visuality, Temporality, Geography
Elyssa Faison and Alison Fields
1 Targeting the Pacific: World War II in Asian American and Pacific Islander Art
Margo Machida
PART ONE. REMEMBERING ORIGINARY MOMENTS: TRINITY, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI
2 Security and Sacrifice: Nuclear Tourism in New Mexico
Melanie Armstrong
3 A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado: Art and Activism in the Digital Space
Melanie Armstrong, Sarah Kanouse, and Shiloh R. Krupar
4 Atoms for Life and for Death: Nuclear Energy and Hiroshima Activism in the 1950s
Ran Zwigenberg
5 The Politics of Antimonumentalism: An Exhibit in Five Cities
Shinpei Takeda
6 The Antimonument Research Collective
Shuhei Matsukubo, Mariko Mikami, Maika Nakao, and Shinpei Takeda
7 Creating the Atomic Sublime: The Perpetual Production of Nuclear In/Security
Jennifer Richter and Sherri Wasserman
PART TWO. LEGACIES OF THE BIKINI TEST
8 Resisting US Nuclear Tests: The UN Petition from the Marshall Islands
Seiichiro Takemine
9 Arts Education and the Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall Islands
Jasmine alik, Holly Barker, Keyoka Kabua, Ariana Tibon, and Leimamo Wase
10 Nuclear Temples
Peter Goin
11 Housewives Petitioning for World Peace: Ban-the-Bomb Activism in Cold War Japan
Akiko Takenaka
12 Voices of Deep-Sea Tuna Fishermen in the Japanese Anti-Nuclear Test Movement
Yuka Tsuchiya Moriguchi
PART THREE. TRANSPACIFIC ACTIVISMS
13 A Long Road to Disability Compensation in Cold War America
Naoko Wake
14 Barbara Reynolds and the Politics of Transnational Antinuclear Activism
Elyssa Faison
15 An Interview with Artist Will Wilson
Alison Fields and Will Wilson
16 Food Cultivation as Artistic Activism after Nuclear Disaster
Alison Fields
Contributors
Index