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Fun and Fear: The Banalization of Nuclear Technologies Through Display (2019)

Sastre Juan, Jaume (Author)
Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume (Author)

Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Volume: 61
Issue: 1-2
Pages: 2-13

URI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1600-0498.12223

DOI: 10.1111/1600-0498.12223

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Case studies Science and technology studies (STS) Visual representation; visual communication Visualization Science and culture Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics 21st century 20th century, late Ukraine Spain Portugal Great Britain United States

How do nuclear technologies become commonplace? How have the borders between the exceptional and the banal been drawn and redrawn over the last 70 years in order to make nuclear energy part of everyday life? This special issue analyzes the role of fun and display, broadly construed, in shaping the cultural representation and the material circulation (or non-circulation) of nuclear technologies. Four case studies, covering the United States, Great Britain, Portugal, Spain, and Ukraine from the 1950s to the 2000s, explore how specific forms of public display and playful practices of cultural production were used as means to banalize (or de-banalize) nuclear energy. This introduction addresses the main theoretical and historiographical signposts of the special issue and outlines the different ways in which the articles explore them.

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Article Jaume Valentines‐Álvarez; Ana Macaya‐Andrés (2019) Making Fun of the Atom: Humor and Pleasant Forms of Anti-Nuclear Resistance in the Iberian Peninsula, 1974–1984. Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 70-90). unapi

Article Tatiana Kasperski (2019) Children, Nation and Reactors: Imagining and Promoting Nuclear Power in Contemporary Ukraine. Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 51-69). unapi

Article Jaume Sastre‐Juan (2019) “If You Tilt This Game, Will It Explode?”: The Politics of Nuclear Display at the New York Hall of Science (1966–1973). Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 33-50). unapi

Article Alison Boyle (2019) “Banishing the Atom Pile Bogy”: Exhibiting Britain's First Nuclear Reactor. Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 14-32). unapi

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