Being Nuclear :Africans and the Global Uranium Trade - The MIT Press

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Author: Gabrielle Hecht
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Being Nuclear :Africans and the Global Uranium Trade - The MIT Press

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The hidden history of African uranium and what it means-for a state, an object, an industry, a workplace-to be nuclear. Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons, including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In 2003, after the infamous yellow cake from Niger, Africa suddenly became notorious as a source of uranium, a component of nuclear weapons. But did that admit Niger, or any of Africa's other uranium-producing countries, to the select society of nuclear states? Does uranium itself count as a nuclear thing? In this book, Gabrielle Hecht lucidly probes the question of what it means for something-a state, an object, an industry, a workplace-to be nuclear. Hecht shows that questions about being nuclear-a state that she calls nuclearity -lie at the heart of today's global nuclear order and the relationships between developing nations (often former colonies) and nuclear powers (often former colonizers). Hecht enters African nuclear worlds, focusing on miners and the occupational hazard of radiation exposure. Could a mine be a nuclear workplace if (as in some South African mines) its radiation levels went undetected and unmeasured? With this book, Hecht is the first to put Africa in the nuclear world, and the nuclear world in Africa. By doing so, she remakes our understanding of the nuclear age.

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Winner of Co-winner, 2012 Martin A. Klein Prize in African History, awarded by the American Historical Society. 2012,Winner of Winner, 2013 Robert K. Merton Book Award, given by the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association. 2012,Winner of Winner, 2013 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship 2012,Winner of Finalist, 2013 Melville Herkovits Award, African Studies Association 2012,Winner of Winner, 2016 4S Rachel Carson Book Prize 2012

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Type	Book
ISBN13	9780262526869
ISBN10	0262526867
Number Of Pages	480
Item Weight	1000 g
Product Dimensions	152 x 229 x 24 mm
Publisher / Reseller	MIT Press Ltd
Format	paperback

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Being Nuclear has very important things to say about the legacies of empire. Hecht persuasively shows how global nuclear agencies reproduced colonial logics and inequalities... It seems destined to become essential reading for those interested in uranium and Africa, as well as in issues of global nuclearity. -Journal of Modern History
Hecht has written the first history of nuclear Africa which, given the importance of the subject and the obstacles she faced, is a major achievement. -Jock McCulloch, Journal of African History * Reviews *
Not only does the book stand out as one of the most comprehensive attempts to study the history of uranium mining in Africa, it also caters to an expansive academic audience-from historians of science and technology and sociologists and anthropologists of science, to those taking a broader interest in labour rights, public health issues and mining corporations. -Jayita Sarkar, The British Journal for the History of Science * Reviews *
Being Nuclear has very important things to say about the legacies of empire. Hecht persuasively shows how global nuclear agencies reproduced colonial logics and inequalities... It seems destined to become essential reading for those interested in uranium and Africa, as well as in issues of global nuclearity. -Journal of Modern History * Reviews *

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Being Nuclear :Africans and the Global Uranium Trade - The MIT Press

Gabrielle Hecht

4.20 ( 54 Ratings by Goodreads)