...Roxanne Panchasi Copyright © 2019 University of Illinois Press 2019 "No Hiroshima in Africa": The Algerian War and the Q_uestion ofFrench Nuclear Tests in the Sahara Roxanne Panchasi A test in peacetime on a restricted desert provingground bears no resemblance to a military bombardment...

.... While genocide and nuclear catastrophe oriented the world imagination toward the specter of planetary annihilation, the “final solution” and the atomic bombings also cleave from one another in significant ways. In the space of postwar Europe, the history of the Holocaust is settled: Nazis were...

... that the specific attributes of being able to see the entire planet as a single unit or system is a Cold War creation.1 This mode of thinking is therefore deeply imbricated not only in nuclear age militarism, but also in specific forms of twentieth-century knowledgeproduction...

... fascinating, albeit sobering, has happened to this nexus of knowledge and agency. The technological capacities of nuclear destruction have come to embrace human, indeed more or less all, life on earth. The management of nuclear substances requires a projection into the future the dimensions of which surpass...

... Construction of Racial Inferiors in Korea Jae Ifyun Kim and Moon-Kie Jung 55 "No Hiroshima in Africa:" The Algerian War and the Question of French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara Roxanne Panchasi 84 ...

... with Elizabeth Weed, in setting up the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown. Likewise, there are files that track my political activities—from the heady days of protest in high school (ban the bomb) and college (nuclear testing and civil rights) and at the University of Wisconsin...

...-the Pilgrim Congregations (Pilgergemeinen)-were organized along quite different lines. In these closed communities, the central unit of social organization was not the nuclear family, but the Choir (same-age, same-sex cohorts) and their economic lives were communal.20 Bethlehem was the first and most highly...

... film Tree ofLife (2 011) , which chronicles the domestic experience ofa nuclear family in the fifties, intercutwith footage of the Big Bang and dinosaurs? Or, whyhas science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson turned his attention away from speculations about the future to those of the Ice Age in his...

... decisions and pursue her own role in stabilizing the nuclear family: Victoria has obtained a job to go into selling Real-Estate. . . . Previously, she was a sickly hypochondriac, she was a retiring person, she was afraid of her responsibility as a mother and a wife. But now she was able to take care...

... audience. But if we understand this narrative of rape, incest, and racial/sexual configuration to be foundational to racial capitalism—that is, structural rather than incidental—then we must also view the sanctity of the nuclear white family and its hetero-patriarchal norms as conditioned by race slavery...

...” and decried the Sex Pistols’ existential observation “no future”: “No future. Did there used to be a future? Who took it away from us? No-one much under fifty remembers what it was like before there was the Bomb” ( Worley 73 ). Increased hostilities of the “Second Cold War” reheated fears of nuclear...

... of Nigeria internationally on women’s “vanity” and the wrong kinds of social reproduction, from polygamy to bad child-rearing to a lack of nuclear family households. While the majority of Nigerians were living off the land, through subsistence agriculture and similar strategies, the technocratic elite...

..., a conflict that hinges on comparative national claims to arms, tanks, and even nuclear bombs (235). Afterward, Ghosh expresses shame that the shared language between himself and the Imam turns out to be the jargon of technological development and modern warfare. Ghosh writes that “the Imam and I had...

..., knowing whether or not a catastrophe-ofclimate, health, nuclear power, or something else-will happen, but to believe that it will and to act in anticipation. We must, he writes, "project ourselves into the post-catastrophe" as if it had already happened in order to stop, if we can, the Doomsday Clock.42...

..., the solutions- come primarily from 180 HISTORY ofthe PRESENT internal sources that emerge along a macro scale: from multi-sexed ovaries, fromsuppressedincestualdesire, from the majorevents that shift and upend nuclear family configurations. They do not, as they do in Jewett's narrative, come from a multifarious...

... of decolonization on both colonizer and colonized began to be published—by Fanon , Memmi , and Césaire , but also Sartre and Mannoni . The 1940s and 1950s are also seen as one milestone of the Anthropocene, a “golden spike” evident between 1940 to 1965, the years bordering peak nuclear fallout along...

... to Bartleby's singularity. Though the singular, in this sense, already points us in the di­ rection of the queer (opposing, to be sure, the "structure of the family" and "all things nuclear and patriarchal;' but also, and perhaps more significantly, the notion of "community" as such), it's that very singularity...

..." in the species, underwrites both.This force, this preservative, Putnam's informs its readers, is monogamy. At amoment thatwitnessed the high flower ofwhat has been called a "cul­ ture ofsentiment;' with its relentless aggrandizement ofthe private nuclear family as thewellspring of all that was redeeming...

... Nouvelle Revue du Travail ! (2012) : 10.4000/nrt.143. 8. Pierre Bourdieu, Pascalian Meditations (2000 ) , 202. 9. Edward Palmer Thompson, 'The Moral Economy ofthe English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century;' Past and Present 50 (1971) : 112 - 114. 10. This is, for example, the case in French nuclear power...

... (with the "discovery" of hormones, nuclear DNA, the importance ofcytoplasmic inheritance through the maternal egg, etc. ) for a biochemical reductionist explanation to come to fruition. (Remember Freud laments the lack of bio-scientific evidence for his claims about sexuality. )43 Needless to say, the secular dynamics...