...Piyush Mathur ST 66.01 Mathur 4/9/01 11:46 AM Page 1 Nuclearism THE CONTOURS OF A POLITICAL ECOLOGY How are we to comprehend those events...

... up this vernacular, secular slogan as a way of accumulating ecstatic national sentiment. He timed his slogan to close the nuclear tests con- ducted at Pokhran in Rajasthan. One report on the tests in May of that year...

... at night from panic dreams of nuclear holocaust that had begun in 1982. That was the year I started going to high school near the massive nuclear submarine facility in Groton, Connecticut, the year I wrote my social science term paper on nuclear winter. Soon after I purchased the calcula- tor...

... theology. Zia Mian is a physicist researching nuclear disarmament issues with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is the edi- tor of several books: Out of the Nuclear Shadow (Lokayan, Rainbow, Zed...

... lost his wife and son, is stuck in another kind of the epochal realism as he makes his way to the terminal beach of the story. The terminal beach is the Pacific island of Eniwetok, which has been abandoned by the Atomic Energy Commission for nuclear testing, and where Traven persists, working through...

..., middle-class parenthood and the nuclear family—must give way to a sustained discussion of the ethics of multi- culturalism in relation to the current emergence of what I call the “new global family.” It is in this spirit that I offer a sustained analysis of transna- tional adoption’s material...

.... Pokhran. India tests its nuclear weapons. . . . Kansas, 1999. The board of education votes to delete the teaching of evo- lution from the state’s curriculum. Constructionism goes right wing. There are no real truths; science...

... that are less than utopic. What imaginations present the planetary future, or what theorists from the UK green movement term dark optimism ? 1 Is there no return from the nuclear weaponization of Earth? Does the plastic ocean ever expel or recover? Are dispossession and capitalism inevitable finish lines...

... 2001 ST 66.00 TOC 4/9/01 11:45 AM Page i Contents Nuclearism: The Contours of a Political Ecology Piyush Mathur 1 Guru English Srinivas Aravamudan 19...

... these differences by making culture entirely, note of the way in which Southeast Asians maintain nuclear family struc- tures despite their welfare status, and by pointing to their uncanny work nor should it lead ethic—even in a state of joblessness.32 For Ong and Blumenberg...

.... dren in dire need.5 In this sense, it would seem that although the wave of intercountry adoption has receded, it has left in its wake, embedded in contemporary legal regulations, certain globalized principles based on the modern nuclear...

... with a clear resistance to a dichotomy of the real and the mimetic. The Cold War dis- course, similarly, is one primarily of metaphors, allegories, rhetorical allu- sions, and tropes. The discourse on nuclear deterrence...

... the bounds of the heterosexual nuclear family. These interests include a set of issues he names as “the availability of abortion and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, affirmative action for people of color and for women...

..., unfamiliar war, the first war of the twenty-first century — it is not well-known, it was superseded the not well-understood, it is complex for people to comprehend.”3 nuclear logic of With its rhetorical emphasis on precision bombing and “humane...

..., 1999; the postelection violence against Hindu minorities in Bangladesh, 2001; and the pogrom in Guja- rat, India, 2002. Most sinister of all was the nuclearization of India and Pakistan in May 1998. Underlining the gendered...

... live together with daughters-in-law and grandchildren, as well as nuclear families deriving from the breakup of 1990s, the serious the original extended families. These patterns favor a more pronounced subordination of women to their husbands and in-laws. crisis in Mexican...

... priorities, as was the case with the Iran nuclear deal in 2015. Jamshid's willingness to engage this political faction, despite being from the very racialized community its members regularly vilify, speaks both to his ideological affinities but also his affective skills, which allow him political as well...

... at work an urgency for art to engage with the possibility of violence on the Korean peninsula. Operation Nukorea tells the agonizingly slow story of an imagined nuclear apoca- Black · Duty-­Free in the DMZ? Social Text 123 • June 2015 6...

... the aristocracy in relation to capital, and so are we. 18 But now, we’re also talking through capital. The US and Israel managed to get the Stuxnet virus onto the air-gapped computers in the Iranian nuclear facilities, which caused the nuclear centrifuges to spin out of control and break and officially...

... as satire. Even contemporary critic Michael Weldon calls it “a scary, somber postwar movie about the H bomb,” and Mark Schilling notes that director Inoshiro Honda made the film “as a sincere protest against nuclear destruction...