Resisting the Nuclear : Art and Activism Across the Pacific / edited by Elyssa Faison, Alison Fields, and Laura Kina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faison, Elyssa, 1965- editor.

Fields, Alison, 1979- editor.

Series:

Critical ethnic studies and visual culture.

Critical Ethnic Studies and Visual Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antinuclear movement--Pacific Area.

Antinuclear movement.

Art and social action--Pacific Area.

Art and social action.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, 2024.

Summary:

"This interdisciplinary edited collection features historians, anthropologists, artists, and activists who explore a transpacific understanding of the legacies of the testing and use of nuclear weapons. Instead of limiting the focus of the nuclear humanities to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these essays take readers from the New Mexican desert, to the islands of the Pacific Ocean, to small fishing villages on the island of Shikoku in Japan. They bring together different times and places as well as art historical analysis and academic essays. Focusing on themes of resistance, this collection illustrates the varied methods artists and activists can use to combat nuclear regimes through their aesthetic and political work. By putting activists and artists together, it demonstrates the overlaps and linkages between them as well as the different ways political and artistic expression can respond to nuclear threats and effect change. Through the personal testimonies of hibakushas, lawsuits filed to demand compensation for the medical treatment of affected fisherman, community education programs that raise historical awareness, and artistic projects that provide social commentary, this volume illustrates that nuclear resistance can come in many forms"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : visuality, temporality, geography / Elyssa Faison and Alison Fields

Targeting the Pacific : World War II in Asian American and Pacific Islander art / Margo Machida

Security and sacrifice : nuclear tourism in New Mexico / Melanie Armstrong

A people's atlas of nuclear Colorado : art and activism in the digital space / Melanie Armstrong, Shiloh R. Krupar, and Sarah Kanouse

Atoms for life and for death : nuclear energy and Hiroshima activism in the 1950s / Ran Zwigenberg

The politics of antimonumentalism : an exhibit in five cities / Shinpei Takeda

The antimonument research collective / Shuhei Matsukubo, Mariko Mikami, Maika Nakao, and Shinpei Takeda

Creating the atomic sublime : the perpetual production of nuclear in/security / Jennifer Richter and Sherri Wasserman

Resisting US nuclear tests : the UN petition from the Marshall Islands / Seiichirō Takemine

Arts education and the nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands / Ariana Tibon, Jasmine Alik, Leimamo Wase, Keyoka Kabua, and Holly Barker

Nuclear temples / Peter Goin

Housewives petitioning for world peace : ban-the-bomb activism in Cold War Japan / Akiko Takenaka

Voices of deep-sea tuna fishermen in the Japanese anti-nuclear test movement / Yuka Tsuchiya Moriguchi

A long road to disability compensation in Cold War America / Naoko Wake

Barbara Reynolds and the politics of transnational antinuclear activism / Elyssa Faison

An interview with Artist Will Wilson / Alison Fields and Will Wilson

Food cultivation as artistic activism after nuclear disaster / Alison Fields.

Notes:

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-295-75235-1

OCLC:

1450101214