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Les politiques de la radioactivité: Tchernobyl et la mémoire nationale en Biélorussie contemporaine (2020)

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Publication date: 2020
Language: French

URI: https://www.editionspetra.fr/livres/les-politiques-de-la-radioactivite-tchernobyl-et-la-memoire-nationale-en-bielorussie

ISBN: 9782847432657

Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 346

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Collective memory Nuclear power stations Radioactivity 21st century 20th century, late Belarus

Début 2020, la Biélorussie, ex-république soviétique, se prépare à mettre en service sur son territoire la première centrale nucléaire de son histoire. Pourtant, le pays assume encore les conséquences environnementales et sanitaires de la catastrophe de Tchernobyl de 1986. Et même si la radioactivité continue d’affecter la vie de centaines de milliers de personnes, le choix de la voie nucléaire pour assurer l’avenir énergétique du pays reste peu contesté. Comment la Biélorussie a-t-elle pu oublier Tchernobyl et se laisser séduire par l’atome civil ? Comment une telle amnésie est-elle possible ? Tatiana Kasperski aborde ces questions en suivant la trajectoire politique de la mémoire de Tchernobyl. Elle met en lumière la façon dont les problèmes créés par l’accident ont été définis par différents acteurs : représentants du régime autoritaire, membres de l’opposition, militants écologistes, experts scientifiques et citoyens. Ces récits publics ont au final abouti à banaliser les conséquences de l’accident dans les représentations collectives. Au lieu de devenir une expérience douloureuse et traumatisante, dont les leçons serviraient à orienter les choix du présent, la catastrophe de Tchernobyl s’est ainsi imposée comme un passé que l’on déclare sans cesse dépassé, mais qui continue à hanter la mémoire nationale biélorusse. English abstract from Google Translate: At the start of 2020, Belarus, a former Soviet republic, is preparing to commission the first nuclear power plant in its history on its territory. However, the country still bears the environmental and health consequences of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. And even if radioactivity continues to affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, the choice of the nuclear route to ensure the energy future of the country remains little contested. How could Belarus forget Chernobyl and let itself be seduced by the civilian atom? How is such amnesia possible? Tatiana Kasperski addresses these questions by following the political trajectory of Chernobyl memory. It sheds light on how the problems created by the accident were defined by different actors: representatives of the authoritarian regime, members of the opposition, environmental activists, scientific experts and citizens. These public accounts ultimately resulted in trivializing the consequences of the accident in collective representations. Instead of becoming a painful and traumatic experience, the lessons of which would serve to guide the choices of the present, the Chernobyl disaster has thus imposed itself as a past that is constantly declared to be outdated, but which continues to haunt Belorussian national memory.

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Review Jacob Darwin Hamblin (2020) Review of "Les politiques de la radioactivité: Tchernobyl et la mémoire nationale en Biélorussie contemporaine". HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology (pp. 120-122). unapi

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