Peder Anker Livres

Exploring alternative narratives surrounding the development of nuclear weapons, this book critiques the dominant historical accounts that often glorify figures like Robert Oppenheimer while neglecting the suffering of marginalized groups. It highlights the exploitation of First Nation communities during uranium mining and addresses the racial dynamics in places like Oak Ridge. Additionally, it examines the cultural impact of the bomb, including the fetishization of nuclear themes in popular culture, and connects contemporary fears of global warming to historical anxieties about atomic destruction.

What is the source of Norway's culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Anker shows how their portrayal of Norway as a pristine natural environment of the periphery led to it being fashioned as an idealised ecological microcosm. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

This book examines the possibilities for scaling design solutions to global warming. Global warming poses new challenges to the architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design communities. The immediate response has been a turn toward a host of energy-saving technologies. What has rarely been addressed, however, is the problem of scale. How can designers make sure that global solutions do not come at the expense of local cultures and environments? By placing human rational, emotional, technological, and social needs at the center of our environmental concerns, this book proposes a new global design initiative. The aim is to develop a language of design that can create proximity between individual responsibility and the current global environmental crisis. These featured projects showcase leading-edge design innovations at multiple scales. Global Design directors Peder Anker, Louise Harpman, and Mitchell Joachim discuss various ways in which design can reformat the unfortunate separation between humans and the natural world.