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E-book A Nuclear Refrain : Emotion, Empire, and the Democratic Potential of Protest

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A Nuclear Refrain is a piece of “spatial fic-tion” that challenges vital but neglected is-sues around the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction and the concomitant policy of nuclear deterrence. We issue this challenge via the extension of our geographical imagi-nations into the past, present, and future.The UK’s 2016 decision to replace its Vanguard submarine fleet, as a major step to-wards renewing its Trident nuclear weapons system, ignored a barrage of public protest. Whatever the other political issues in play, the lengthy process of Trident replacement will surely vex British and, indeed, global politics for generations. Political, economic, ethical, and military disagreements will rum-ble on and on, building to raging arguments and further waves of public protest at key decision-making moments. Although it is a rigorous critical analysis of deterrence, we present our consideration as a work of fiction, short-circuiting the usual academic structures and strictures on writing style and content. Our aim is to reach an audience beyond academia as well as within. We also wish to incite different ways of thinking about how we can “stage” scholarly interventions. Inspired by Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, we transport a UK policy-maker in time and space to engage with arguments and emotions around how nuclear deterrence not only perpetu-ates an existential threat, but also limits our potential as individuals, relational groups, and democracies. Previewing publication, one reader commented that our story was “an uncomfortable hybrid between academia and fiction.” And that was exactly our inten-tion, because we believe that discomfort can be a vital spur to re-thinking persistent and intransigent issues like nuclear deterrence for academics, activists, policy-makers, and disengaged citizens alike. Thus, we wish to provoke debate about how nuclear deter-rence restricts the development of trusting and caring societies, both within and beyond national borders. We also hope that what fol-lows is a good read!

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

355.825119 ASK a

Penerbit

New York : Punctum books., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

147 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781950192618

Klasifikasi

355.825119

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Nuclear Weapons, Atomic Weapons

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