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... Chapter 5 explores how uranium pushes photography beyond that which is visible to the human eye. Centering on the problem of slow violence, the argument in this chapter is twofold. First, experiments by Niépce de Saint-Victor, Wilhelm Röntgen, and Henri Becquerel show that photography is central...

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... In Jadugoda, in an area that was formerly a part of Bihar, and where the author spent a part of his boyhood, uranium mining has claimed many victims. Most of them are from India’s aboriginal population and there is little sharing of information about the dangers of radioactive waste. A large...

... Much of the world’s uranium is mined from Indigenous lands. The uranium for Little Boy, the atomic bomb detonated by the US military over Hiroshima, came in part from territories of the Sahtu Dene, an Indigenous people on the shores of Great Bear Lake, Canada. Most of the Dene men who mined...

... A century of gold and uranium mining hollowed out South Africa's Witwatersrand plateau. After the closure of these mines, water rose through the shafts, spilling acid mine drainage loaded with uranium, arsenic, and other harmful metals onto agricultural fields and into drinking water...

... A key tactic of residual governance is to compartmentalize contamination sources. But people experience contaminants simultaneously, not separately or sequentially. At the informal settlement of Tudor Shaft, situated atop the remains of a uranium mine, radioactive contamination became a key...

..., and where the author spent a part of his boyhood, uranium mining has claimed many victims. Most of them are from India’s aboriginal population and there is little sharing of information about the dangers of radioactive waste. A large number of youths are born deformed, their bodies stunted and their minds...