ISBN |
0262526867 (pbk.)
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ISBN13桁 |
9780262526869 (pbk.)
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テキストの言語 |
英語
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分類:NDC10版 |
562.7
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個人著者標目 |
Hecht, Gabrielle.
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本タイトル |
Being nuclear :
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タイトル関連情報 |
Africans and the global uranium trade /
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著者名 |
Gabrielle Hecht.
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出版地・頒布地 |
Cambridge, Mass. :
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出版者・頒布者名 |
MIT Press,
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出版年・頒布年 |
c2012.
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数量 |
xx, 451 p. :
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他の形態的事項 |
ill., maps ;
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大きさ |
23 cm.
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書誌注記 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-442) and index.
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内容注記 |
Introduction : the power of nuclear things. Proliferating markets -- Imperial projections and market devices -- Colonial enrichment -- The price of sovereignty -- In the shadows of the market -- Nuclear work. A history of invisibility -- Nuclearity at work -- Invisible exposures -- Hopes for the irradiated body -- Conclusion : uranium in Africa.
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要約、抄録、注釈等 |
Remaking our understanding of the nuclear age, the author is the first to put Africa in the nuclear world, and the nuclear world in Africa. Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, but does that admit Niger, or any of Africa's other uranium-producing countries, to the select society of nuclear states? Does uranium itself count as a nuclear thing? She lucidly probes the question of what it means for something--a state, an object, an industry, a workplace--to be "nuclear." She then enters African nuclear worlds, focusing on miners and the occupational hazard of radiation exposure and asks, could a mine be a nuclear workplace if (as in some South African mines) its radiation levels went undetected and unmeasured? These questions about being nuclear--"nuclearity"--lie at the heart of today's global nuclear order and the relationships between "developing nations" (often former colonies) and "nuclear powers" (often former colonizers). Nuclearity is not a straightforward scientific classification but a contested technopolitical one. The author follows uranium's path out of Africa and describes the invention of the global uranium market.
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一般件名 |
Uranium industry -- Africa.
Uranium industry -- Political aspects -- Africa. |
地名件名 |
Africa.
Afrika. |
資料情報1 |
『Being nuclear :
Africans and the global uranium trade /』 Gabrielle Hecht. MIT Press, c2012.
(所蔵館:中央
請求記号:F/562.7/H44/B
資料コード:7105144770)
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URL |
https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352013683 |