Joseph Masco examines the psychosocial, material, and affective consequences of the advent of nuclear weapons, the Cold War security state, climate change on contemporary US democratic practices and public imaginaries.
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Joseph Masco est un anthropologue distingué dont le travail explore la relation complexe entre la science, la technologie et la société. Sa recherche plonge dans les dynamiques de la sécurité nationale et son impact profond sur la vie humaine, retraçant son évolution de l'ère de la Guerre Froide aux conflits mondiaux contemporains. Masco analyse méticuleusement comment les récits de sécurité sont construits et comment ils façonnent notre compréhension collective du monde et nos expériences individuelles. Son approche se caractérise par une enquête interdisciplinaire rigoureuse et une perspicacité aiguë dans l'interaction complexe du pouvoir, de la connaissance et de l'existence.
The Nuclear Borderlands
- 456pages
- 16 heures de lecture
An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bomb In The Nuclear Borderlands, Joseph Masco offers an in-depth look at the long-term consequences of the Manhattan Project. Masco examines how diverse groups in and around Los Alamos, New Mexico understood and responded to the U.S. nuclear weapons project in the post–Cold War period. He shows that the American focus on potential nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War obscured the broader effects of the nuclear complex on society, and that the atomic bomb produced a new cognitive orientation toward daily life, reconfiguring concepts of time, nature, race, and citizenship. This updated edition includes a brand-new preface by the author discussing current developments in nuclear politics and the scientific impact of the nuclear age on the present epoch of a human-altered climate.