Article ID: CBB152621793

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

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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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Authors & Contributors
Rubio-Varas, Maria del Mar
Andrey Vozyanov
Ross, Philippe
Casini, Silvia
Bjornstad, David J.
Moa Carlsson
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Science and culture
Case studies
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Visual representation; visual communication
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Spain
Ukraine
Portugal
Pakistan
Europe
Institutions
Instituto Nacional de Industria (Spain)
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratories (United States)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
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