Full Description
A transpacific tour of nuclear humanities
From uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed Indigenous lands. Sustained exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons and waste affects many communities from Japan to Oceania to the US West. While antinuclear activism often takes political and legal forms, artistic responses to nuclear regimes also prompt social action and resistance.
Resisting the Nuclear is an interdisciplinary edited collection featuring historians, anthropologists, artists, and activists who explore the multifaceted forms of resistance to nuclear regimes. Through a combination of interviews, scholarly essays, and discussions of contemporary art, contributors recenter the victims of nuclear technologies and demonstrate how political and artistic expression can respond to nuclear threats and effect change.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Naming and Orthography
Introduction: Visuality, Temporality, Geography
Elyssa Faison and Alison Fields
1 Targeting the Pacific: World War II in Asian American and Pacific Islander Art
Margo Machida
PART ONE. REMEMBERING ORIGINARY MOMENTS: TRINITY, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI
2 Security and Sacrifice: Nuclear Tourism in New Mexico
Melanie Armstrong
3 A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado: Art and Activism in the Digital Space
Melanie Armstrong, Sarah Kanouse, and Shiloh R. Krupar
4 Atoms for Life and for Death: Nuclear Energy and Hiroshima Activism in the 1950s
Ran Zwigenberg
5 The Politics of Antimonumentalism: An Exhibit in Five Cities
Shinpei Takeda
6 The Antimonument Research Collective
Shuhei Matsukubo, Mariko Mikami, Maika Nakao, and Shinpei Takeda
7 Creating the Atomic Sublime: The Perpetual Production of Nuclear In/Security
Jennifer Richter and Sherri Wasserman
PART TWO. LEGACIES OF THE BIKINI TEST
8 Resisting US Nuclear Tests: The UN Petition from the Marshall Islands
Seiichirō Takemine
9 Arts Education and the Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall Islands
Jasmine alik, Holly Barker, Keyoka Kabua, Ariana Tibon, and Leimamo Wase
10 Nuclear Temples
Peter Goin
11 Housewives Petitioning for World Peace: Ban-the-Bomb Activism in Cold War Japan
Akiko Takenaka
12 Voices of Deep-Sea Tuna Fishermen in the Japanese Anti-Nuclear Test Movement
Yuka Tsuchiya Moriguchi
PART THREE. TRANSPACIFIC ACTIVISMS
13 A Long Road to Disability Compensation in Cold War America
Naoko Wake
14 Barbara Reynolds and the Politics of Transnational Antinuclear Activism
Elyssa Faison
15 An Interview with Artist Will Wilson
Alison Fields and Will Wilson
16 Food Cultivation as Artistic Activism after Nuclear Disaster
Alison Fields
Contributors
Index
