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The Chernobyl herbarium : fragments of an exploded consciousness
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ISBN: 1785420267 1785420275 Year: 2016 Publisher: Open Humanities Press

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We entrust readers with thirty fragments of reflections, meditations, recollections, and images — one for each year that has passed since the explosion that rocked and destroyed a part of the Chernobyl nuclear power station in April 1986. The aesthetic visions, thoughts, and experiences that have made their way into this book hover in a grey region between the singular and self-enclosed, on the one hand, and the generally applicable and universal, on the other. Through words and images, we wish to contribute our humble share to a collaborative grappling with the event of Chernobyl. Unthinkable and unrepresentable as it is, we insist on the need to reflect upon, signify, and symbolize it, taking stock of the consciousness it fragmented and, perhaps, cultivating another, more environmentally attuned way of living.


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The Chernobyl disaster
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ISBN: 1634854829 9781634854825 9781634854580 1634854586 Year: 2016 Publisher: Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publisher's, Incorporated,


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The lessons of Chernobyl : 25 years later
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ISBN: 9781624175435 1624175430 9781613245163 1613245165 Year: 2012 Publisher: Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers,


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Tracing the Atom : Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia
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ISBN: 1003246893 1000578003 1032160500 1000578011 Year: 2022 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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This book is about nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia, focusing on selected sites of the Soviet atomic program, many of which have remained understudied. Nuclear operations, for energy or military purposes, demanded a vast infrastructure of production and supply chains that have transformed entire regions. In following the material traces of the atomic programs, contributors pay particular attention to memory practices and memorialization concerning nuclear legacies. Tracing the Atom foregrounds historical and contemporary engagements with nuclear politics: how have institutions and governments responded to the legacies of the atomic era? How do communities and artists articulate concerns over radioactive matters? What was the role of radiation expertise in a broader Soviet and international context of the Cold War? Examining nuclear legacies together with past atomic futures and post-Soviet memorialization and nuclear heritage shines light on how modes of knowing intersect with livelihoods, compensation policies, and historiography. Bringing together a range of disciplines - history, science and technology studies, social anthropology, literary studies, and art history - this volume offers insights that broaden our understanding of twentieth-century atomic programs and their long aftermaths.


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The rhetorical rise and demise of "democracy" in Russian political discourse.
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ISBN: 1644697343 1644697335 1644697327 9781644697344 9781644697337 9781644697320 Year: 2021 Publisher: Brookline, MA

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The 1983shootdown of KAL 007 and the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident dramatically changedthe Soviet Union in unpredictable ways. The Communist Party, which struggled tomaintain control of political messaging after the KAL crisis, lost control inthe aftermath of Chernobyl.

Life exposed
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ISBN: 9780691090191 0691090181 069109019X 0691151660 1400845092 1299387861 9781400845095 9780691151663 9781299387867 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Woodstock Princeton University Press

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On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster. Tracing the story from an initial lack of disclosure to post-Soviet democratizing attempts to compensate sufferers, Adriana Petryna uses anthropological tools to take us into a world whose social realities are far more immediate and stark than those described by policymakers and scientists. She asks: What happens to politics when state officials fail to inform their fellow citizens of real threats to life? What are the moral and political consequences of remedies available in the wake of technological disasters? Through extensive research in state institutions, clinics, laboratories, and with affected families and workers of the so-called Zone, Petryna illustrates how the event and its aftermath have not only shaped the course of an independent nation but have made health a negotiated realm of entitlement. She tracks the emergence of a "biological citizenship" in which assaults on health become the coinage through which sufferers stake claims for biomedical resources, social equity, and human rights. Life Exposed provides an anthropological framework for understanding the politics of emergent democracies, the nature of citizenship claims, and everyday forms of survival as they are interwoven with the profound changes that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl', Ukraine, 1986 --- Radioactive pollution --- Tchernobyl, Accident nucléaire de, Ukraine, 1986 --- Accident nucléaire de Tchernobyl, Tchernobyl, Ukraine, 1986 --- Pollution radioactive --- Health aspects --- Aspect sanitaire --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A72 --- #SBIB:328H263 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Europa --- Instellingen en beleid: andere GOS-staten --- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 --- Environmental radioactivity --- Nuclear pollution --- Radioactivity, Environmental --- Pollution --- Radioactive substances --- Radioecology --- Radioactive waste disposal --- Health aspects. --- Environmental aspects. --- Tchernobyl, Accident nucléaire de, Ukraine, 1986 --- Accident nucléaire de Tchernobyl, Tchernobyl, Ukraine, 1986 --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- Social aspects. --- Chernobyl aftermath. --- Chernobyl disaster. --- Chernobyl explosion. --- Chernobyl nuclear reactor. --- Chernobyl sufferers. --- Exclusion Zone. --- Radiation Research Center. --- Safe Living Concept. --- Soviet Union. --- Ukraine. --- accountability. --- biological citizenship. --- biological injury. --- bioscientific collaboration. --- catastrophe. --- clinicians. --- compensation. --- corruption. --- disability claims. --- disability. --- doctorаatient relations. --- environment. --- ethics. --- families. --- family histories. --- health. --- human rights. --- human welfare. --- illness. --- in utero research. --- lichnost'. --- life narratives. --- medical classification. --- medical surveillance. --- medical-labor committees. --- nonsufferers. --- nuclear hazard. --- patients. --- personhood. --- post-Soviet Ukraine. --- public health. --- radiation dose exposure. --- radiation research. --- radiation scientists. --- radiation. --- radioactive fallout. --- self. --- sick role sociality. --- social equity. --- social health. --- social identity. --- social protection. --- social welfare goods. --- state building. --- sufferers. --- suffering. --- technological disasters. --- violence. --- welfare claims.


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The post-Chornobyl library
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ISBN: 1644692392 9781644692394 9781644692400 1644692406 9781644692387 1644692384 Year: 2019 Publisher: Boston

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Having exploded on the margins of Europe, Chornobyl marked the end of the Soviet Union and tied the era of postmodernism in Western Europe with nuclear consciousness. The Post-Chornobyl Library in Tamara Hundorova’s book becomes a metaphor of a new Ukrainian literature of the 1990s, which emerges out of the Chornobyl nuclear trauma of the 26th of April, 1986. Ukrainian postmodernism turns into a writing of trauma and reflects the collisions of the post-Soviet time as well as the processes of decolonization of the national culture. A carnivalization of the apocalypse is the main paradigm of the post-Chornobyl text, which appeals to “homelessness” and the repetition of “the end of histories.” Ironic language game, polymorphism of characters, taboo breaking, and filling in the gaps of national culture testify to the fact that the Ukrainians were liberating themselves from the totalitarian past and entering the society of the spectacle. Along this way, the post-Chornobyl character turns into an ironist, meets with the Other, experiences a split of his or her self, and witnesses a shift of geo-cultural landscapes.


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Disaster health.
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ISSN: 21665052 Year: 2013 Publisher: [Austin, TX] : [London, UK] : Landes Bioscience, Taylor & Francis Group


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Ciottone's disaster medicine
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ISBN: 0323809332 0323809324 9780323809337 9780323809320 Year: 2023 Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier Inc.,

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While medical specialists in disaster mitigation, preparedness, and response are needed worldwide, the initial phase of disaster response is almost entirely dependent upon local resources--making it essential that all healthcare personnel have a working knowledge of the field and stand ready to integrate into the response system. Ciottone's Disaster Medicine, 3rd Edition, is the most comprehensive reference available to help accomplish these goals in every community. It thoroughly covers isolated domestic events as well as global disasters and humanitarian crises. Dr. Gregory Ciottone and more than 200 worldwide authorities share their knowledge and expertise on the preparation, assessment, and management of both natural and man-made disasters, including lessons learned by the responders to contemporary disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Australian and western U.S. wildfires, European heatwaves, the Beirut explosion, recent hurricanes and typhoons, and the global refugee crisis.


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Chernobyl : catastrophe and consequences
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ISBN: 1280617217 9786610617210 3540280790 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Chichester, UK : Springer ; Published in association with Praxis Pub.,

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The long-term effects of the Chernobyl incident on the environment are still becoming apparent, twenty years after the event. This book, written by two researchers with frontline experience in this field, provides a detailed review of these over a wide range of ecosystems. It also discusses the responses and countermeasures utilised to combat the effects of the accident, as well as considering the health, social, psychological and economic impacts on the human population. Chernobyl - Catastrophe and Consequences provides a comprehensive assessment of the Chernobyl accident and its long-term consequences draws on the most recent measurements of contamination in the terrestrial and aquatic food chains discusses the sociological consequences of such disasters in detail This book adds valuable weight to the debate about the environmental cost of nuclear power and the issue of nuclear safety. .

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