Nuclear desire : power and the postcolonial nuclear order / Shampa Biswas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biswas, Shampa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear nonproliferation--Political aspects--History.

Nuclear nonproliferation.

Nuclear arms control--History.

Nuclear arms control.

Postcolonialism.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 280 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]

Summary:

Since its enactment in 1970, the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty has become one node of a massive, sprawling, multibillion-dollar regime that is considered essential to slowing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons technology. According to Shampa Biswas, these well-intentioned efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons deflect attention from a hierarchical global nuclear order dominated by powerful states and capitalist interests that benefit from the status quo. In Nuclear Desire, Biswas proposes that pursuit and production of nuclear power are sustained by this unequal global order whose persistent and daily harmful effects are experienced by some of the most vulnerable bodies around the world. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : use and waste in the global nuclear order

Intentions and effects : the proliferation of the nuclear non-proliferation regime

Whose nuclear order? : a postcolonial critique of an enlightenment project

Unusable, dangerous, and desirable : nuclear weapons as fetish commodities

Costly weapons : the political economy of nuclear power

Conclusion. Decolonizing the nuclear world : can the subaltern speak?

Appendix: The nuclear non-proliferation regime.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816680979

0816680973

9780816680986

0816680981

OCLC:

875884309