Article ID: CBB755235573

The Visual Politics of Maralinga: Experiences, (Re)presentations, and Vulnerabilities (2021)

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Visual cultures are being increasingly discussed in the history of science literature, although relatively very little of that work concerns the nuclear age. In addition, within the discrete yet bourgeoning literature on global nuclear art and culture, Oceania is often overlooked despite its central role in the development of the American, British, and French nuclear weapon capabilities, as well as their associated colonial legacies. This article serves to redress both concerns by examining the visual politics of Maralinga in relation to settler-colonial and Aboriginal experiences, vulnerabilities and (re)presentations. I do so by surveying artworks with a connection to the Australian experience of nuclear colonialism and find that the figure of biological life has been conspicuously left absent from contemporary non-Indigenous Australian depictions of British nuclear testing in Australia.

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Authors & Contributors
Anderson, Warwick H.
Ashraf Wani, Mohd
Jarrod Hore
Bhat, Rouf Ahmad
Doyle, Aunty Kerrie
Ellinghaus, Katherine
Concepts
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Colonialism
Great Britain, colonies
Scientific expeditions
Science and art
Visual representation; visual communication
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
Early modern
Modern
Places
Australia
India
New Zealand
Namibia
Indonesia
Pacific Ocean
Institutions
Grampians National Park
South West Africa Company (SWACO)
Natural History Museum (London, England)
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