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The Meanings of a Disaster : Chernobyl and its afterlives in Britain and France (2021)

Berghahn Books
Publication date: 2021
Language: English

ISBN: 9781789207026

Publication Date: 2021
Edition Details: Book Series: The environment in history : international perspectives, no. 20;
Physical Details: 227

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Nuclear power; atomic energy Public policy Technology and society Disasters; catastrophes 20th century France Great Britain

The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was an event of obviously transnational significance-not only in the airborne particulates it deposited across the European continent, but in the political and social repercussions it set off well beyond the Soviet bloc. Focusing on the cases of Great Britain and France, this innovative study explores the discourses and narratives that arose in the wake of the incident among both state and nonstate actors. It gives a thorough account of the stereotypes, framings, and "othering" strategies that shaped Western European responses to the disaster as well as nuclear policy up to the present day. (Publisher)

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Review Garret J. McDonald (2021) Review of "The Meanings of a Disaster : Chernobyl and its afterlives in Britain and France". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 855-856). unapi

Review Scott Gabriel Knowles (July 2022) Review of "The Meanings of a Disaster : Chernobyl and its afterlives in Britain and France". Technology and Culture (pp. 906-907). unapi

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