TY - JOUR
T1 - Fun and Fear: The Banalization of Nuclear Technologies through Display
AU - Sastre Juan, Jaume
AU - Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume
N1 - Funding information:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (through CIUHCT, UID/HIS/00286/2019); AGAUR, Generalitat de Catalunya (2017 SGR 1138), UID/HIS/00286/2013.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
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.
U2 - 10.1111/1600-0498.12223
DO - 10.1111/1600-0498.12223
M3 - Article
SN - 0008-8994
VL - 61
SP - 2
EP - 13
JO - Centaurus
JF - Centaurus
IS - 1-2
ER -