Towards nuclear geography: Zones, bodies, and communities

B Alexis‐Martin, T Davies - Geography Compass, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Since the discovery of radioactivity in 1895, ionising radiation has become an increasingly
prominent part of modern life. Here, we explore the diverse modes of interaction that occur …

[HTML][HTML] Placing the intangible: Space, nuclear power and social sciences

T Meyer, A Sérandour - Energy Research & Social Science, 2024 - Elsevier
The revival of interest in nuclear power since 2022 relies on multiple spatial promises, such
as expanding nuclear energy to unequipped countries or developing new types of reactors …

Un‐earthing the subterranean Anthropocene

ML Melo Zurita, P George Munro, D Houston - Area, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we argue that the role of the underground has been discursively absent from
contemporary debates about the Anthropocene. We build on recent geographical …

[图书][B] Das Sicherheitsdispositiv der Resilienz: Katastrophische Risiken und die Biopolitik vitaler Systeme

A Folkers - 2018 - library.oapen.org
In einer Welt, in der alte Gewissheiten prekär werden, ist Sicherheit zu einer zentralen
Wertvorstellung geworden. Terroranschläge, Naturgefahren, Pandemien, Ausfälle vitaler …

Negative simulation, spectacle and the embodied geopolitics of tourism

JC Miller, VJ Del Casino Jr - Transactions of the Institute of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper builds on recent work on the embodied geopolitics of tourism to investigate the
Titan Missile Museum (TMM), a Cold War‐era underground nuclear missile silo and …

Was ist kritisch an kritischer Infrastruktur? Kriegswichtigkeit, Lebenswichtigkeit, Systemwichtigkeit und die Infrastrukturen der Kritik

A Folkers - Was heißt Kritikalität, 2018 - degruyter.com
Was ist kritisch an Kritischer Infrastruktur? Diese Frage drängt sich schon deshalb auf, weil
die Öffentlichkeit in regelmäßigen Abständen mit dieser sperrigen Formulierung konfrontiert …

Continuity and catastrophe: business continuity management and the security of financial operations

A Folkers - Economy and Society, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This paper discusses business continuity management (BCM) and its role in contemporary
financial institutions. BCM is a nascent disaster preparedness and recovery strategy that …

(De) territorializing the home. The nuclear bomb shelter as a malleable site of passage

S Berger Ziauddin - … and planning D: Society and space, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper explores the worldwide unprecedented bunker infrastructure of Switzerland.
Since the 1960s, the country has built hundreds of thousands of nuclear bomb shelters in …

Shelter news: affordance, place and proximity in news media representations of civil defence artefacts

P Bennesved - Critical Military Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Sweden has a system of 64,000 air-raid shelters. Built over a period of 80 years and
providing protection for about 70% of the population, the shelters have taken on a special …

Beyond the Agamben paradigm: The spatial logics of exceptionalism

B Hopkins - Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This article considers how notions of space shape Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer series
and its thesis of sovereign violence. To do so, it examines the paradigm as Agamben's …