TY - JOUR
T1 - Fun and fear: The banalization of nuclear technologies through display
AU - Sastre-Juan, Jaume
AU - Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume
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The authors of the articles of this special issue are very grateful to Charlotte Bigg, Paul Josephson, Agust? Nieto-Galan, Egle Rindzeviciute, Xavier Roqu?, and Yago Valumbres, for their really insightful comments as discussants in the workshop ?Nuclear Fun: Banalizing the Atom in Public Display? (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, June 2017). Very special thanks are due to Vanessa Cirkel-Bartelt, who actively participated in the collective discussions that took place at the Barcelona workshop and the 43rd ICOHTEC Meeting (Porto, July 2016). The authors would also like to thank all the anonymous reviewers of the articles and the introduction for their suggestions, which significantly helped to improve this special issue.
PY - 2019/2/1
Y1 - 2019/2/1
N2 - How do nuclear technologies become commonplace? How have the borders between the exceptional and the banal been drawn and redrawn over the last 70 years in order to make nuclear energy part of everyday life? This special issue analyzes the role of fun and display, broadly construed, in shaping the cultural representation and the material circulation (or non-circulation) of nuclear technologies. Four case studies, covering the United States, Great Britain, Portugal, Spain, and Ukraine from the 1950s to the 2000s, explore how specific forms of public display and playful practices of cultural production were used as means to banalize (or de-banalize) nuclear energy. This introduction addresses the main theoretical and historiographical signposts of the special issue and outlines the different ways in which the articles explore them.
AB - How do nuclear technologies become commonplace? How have the borders between the exceptional and the banal been drawn and redrawn over the last 70 years in order to make nuclear energy part of everyday life? This special issue analyzes the role of fun and display, broadly construed, in shaping the cultural representation and the material circulation (or non-circulation) of nuclear technologies. Four case studies, covering the United States, Great Britain, Portugal, Spain, and Ukraine from the 1950s to the 2000s, explore how specific forms of public display and playful practices of cultural production were used as means to banalize (or de-banalize) nuclear energy. This introduction addresses the main theoretical and historiographical signposts of the special issue and outlines the different ways in which the articles explore them.
KW - banalization of nuclear technology
KW - nuclear fun
KW - politics of nuclear display
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079700721&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1600-0498.12223
DO - 10.1111/1600-0498.12223
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85079700721
SN - 0008-8994
VL - 61
SP - 2
EP - 13
JO - Centaurus
JF - Centaurus
IS - 1-2(SI)
ER -