Unmaking the Bomb

Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility

Shannon Cram

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University of California Press
30 November 2023

Conservation of the environment

Series: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics

What does it mean to reckon with a contaminated world? In Unmaking the Bomb, Shannon Cram considers the complex social politics of this question and the regulatory infrastructures designed to answer it. Blending history, ethnography, and memoir, she investigates remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a former weapons complex in Washington State. Home to the majority of the nation's high-level nuclear waste and its largest environmental cleanup, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that will long outlast the United States and its institutional capacities. Cram examines the embodied uncertainties and structural impossibilities integral to that endeavor. In particular, this lyrical book engages in a kind of narrative contamination, toggling back and forth between cleanup's administrative frames and the stories that overspill them. It spends time with the statistical people that inhabit cleanup's metrics and models and the nonstatistical people that live with their effects. And, in the process, it explores the uneven social relations that make toxicity a normative condition.

By: Shannon Cram
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 14
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780520395121
ISBN 10: 0520395123
Series: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 30 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Introduction: On Telling Impossible Stories 1. Tender 2. Anatomy of a Phantom 3. Rational Mutants 4. Body Burden 5. Trespassing Conclusion: Here, in the Plutonium Acknowledgments Notes References Index

Shannon Cram is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell.

Reviews for Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility

"""In prose that’s both calm and solidly grounded in cited research, Cram presents. . . .a quietly devastating indictment that calls to mind such environmentalist classics as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring."" * Kirkus Reviews, STARRED *"