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Signs of danger : waste, trauma, and nuclear threat / Peter C. van Wyck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Wyck, Peter C.
- Series:
- Theory out of bounds ; v. 26.
- Theory out of bounds ; v. 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Radioactive wastes--Environmental aspects.
- Radioactive wastes.
- Radioactive waste disposal in the ground.
- Threat (Psychology).
- Psychic trauma.
- Signs and symbols.
- Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (N.M.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (180 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing on the government's nuclear waste burial program in Carlsbad, New Mexico, Signs of Danger begins the urgent work of finding a new way of thinking about ecological threat in our time. The reflections at the center of this book-on memory, trauma, disaster, representation, and the virtual-offer invaluable insights into the interface of where culture ends and nature begins.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction; Waste; Dangerous Signs; Threat and Trauma; Appendix: A WIPP Chronology; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-145) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9259-9
- OCLC:
- 171126839
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