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Author Monographic
Wallace, Molly
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Wallace, Molly
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RISK CRITICISM: PRECAUTIONARY READING IN AN AGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTY
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RISK CRITICISM: PRECAUTIONARY READING IN AN AGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTY
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, MI
Publisher Name
University of Michigan Press
Date of Publication
2016
Availability
FF: Risk Assessment and Decision Theory
ISBN
9780472073023
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LCCN: 2015038637 Contents: Introduction: Will the Apocalypse Have Been Now? Literary Criticism in an Age of Global Risk The Second Nuclear Age and Its Wagers: Archival Reflexions We All Live in Bhopal? Staging Global Risk Discomfort Food: Analogy and Biotechnology Letting Plastic Have Its Say; or, Plastic's Tell The Port Radium Paradigm; or, Fukushima in a Changing Climate Afterword: Writing ‘The Bomb’: Inheritances in the Anthropocene
Abstract
Risk Criticism is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset its iconic Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight, as close to the apocalypse as it has been since 1953. What pushed its hands was not just the threat of nuclear weapons, but also other global environmental risks that the Bulletin judged to have risen to the scale of the nuclear, including climate change and innovations in the life sciences. If we may once have believed that the end of days would come in a blaze of nuclear firestorm, we now suspect that the apocalypse may be much slower, creeping in as chemical toxins, climate change, or nano-technologies run amok. Taking inspiration from the questions raised by the Bulletins synecdochical nuclear, Risk Criticism aims to generate a hybrid form of critical practice that brings nuclear criticism into conversation with ecocriticism. Through readings of novels, films, theater, poetry, visual art, websites, news reports, and essays, Risk Criticism tracks the diverse ways in which environmental risks are understood and represented today.
Call Number
150.W3.R5
Keywords
Risk Analysis ;
Nuclear Hazards ;
Ecology ;
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