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Additional Physical Format: | Version imprimée: Kuchinskaya, Olga, 1975- author. Politics of invisibility (DLC) 2013048602 (OCoLC)866766639 |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Olga Kuchinskaya |
ISBN: | 9780262325417 0262325411 |
OCLC Number: | 1097301133 |
Description: | 1 ressource en ligne (xii, 249 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction -- Articulating the signs of danger -- The work of living with it -- Waves of Chernobyl invisibility -- Twice invisible -- No clear evidence -- Setting the limits of knowledge -- Conclusion -- Appendix : data and methodology. |
Series Title: | Infrastructures series. |
Responsibility: | Olga Kuchinskaya. |
Abstract:
Olga Kuchinskaya explores how we know what we know about Chernobyl, describing how the consequences of a nuclear accident were made invisible. The analysis sheds valuable light on how we deal with other modern hazards - toxins or global warming - that are largely imperceptible to the human senses. The book describes the production of invisibility of Chernobyl's consequences in Belarus - practices that limit public attention to radiation and make its health effects impossible to observe. The production of invisibility, the book argues, is a function of power relations.
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