Author : Daniel de Roulet
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011
ISBN : 9781570272394
Four literary-political essays documenting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 2011, following the earthquake and tsunami of that date in Japan.
Author : Gérard Raynal
Publisher :
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2011
Category :
ISBN : 9782915746693
Author : Hannah Holtzman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1438497857
The Franco-Japanese coproduction Hiroshima mon amour (1959) is one of the most important films for global art cinema and for the French New Wave. In Through a Nuclear Lens, Hannah Holtzman examines this film and the transnational cycle it has inspired, as well as its legacy after the 2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. In a study that includes formal and theoretical analysis, archival research, and interviews, Holtzman shows the emergence of a new kind of nuclear film, one that attends to the everyday effects of nuclear disaster and its impact on our experience of space and time. The focus on Franco-Japanese exchange in cinema since the postwar period reveals a reorientation of the primarily aesthetic preoccupations in the tradition of Japonisme to center around technological and environmental concerns. The book demonstrates how French filmmakers, ever since Hiroshima mon amour, have looked to Japan in part to better understand nuclear uncertainty in France.
Author : Hester Baer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 3031630246
Author : John K. White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 1009433172
The transition to renewable energy is vital and fast-paced, but how do we choose which technologies to drive this energy transition? This timely book provides everyone interested in the renewable energy transition with an introduction to and technical foundation for understanding modern energy technology. It traces everyday power generation through history, from the Industrial Revolution to today. It examines the use of wood, coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, and nuclear to produce energy, before discussing renewable energy sources such as biomass, photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, wave, and geothermal. The book examines to what extent and how each technology can contribute to a clean, green infrastructure. The Truth About Energy explains the science and engineering of energy to help everyone understand and compare current and future advances in renewable energy, providing the context to critically examine the different technologies that are competing in a fast-evolving engineering, political, and economic landscape.
Author : Saeko Kimura
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1793605378
This seminal book is the first sustained critical work that engages with the varieties of literature following the triple disasters—the earthquake, tsunami, and meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Author : Joyce Marie Mushaben
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108417736
The first English-language scholarly book to provide an overview of the Angela Merkel's career and influence.
Author : Sonja E. Klocke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110493454
Interest in Christa Wolf continues to grow. Her classics are being reprinted and new titles are appearing posthumously, becoming bestsellers, and being translated. Energetic scholarly debates engage well-known aesthetic and political issues that the public intellectual herself fore-fronted. This broad-ranging introduction to the author, her work and times builds upon and moves beyond such foundational interpretative frameworks by articulating the global relevance of Wolf’s oeuvre today, also for non-German readers. Thus, it brings East German culture alive to students, teachers, scholars and the general public by connecting the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the lived experiences of its citizens to nations and cultures around the world. The collection focuses on topical matters including the search for authenticity, agency, race, cosmopolitanism, gender, environmentalism, geopolitics, war, and memory debates, as well as movie adaptations and Wolf’s film work with DEFA, marketing, and international reception. Our contributions – by senior and emerging scholars from across the globe – emphasize Wolf’s position as an author of world literature and an important critical voice in the 21st century.
Author : Alfredo Agustoni
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1504953088
This book deals with a pivotal issue often marginalized by sociological analysis: the relationship between energy and society, with different contributions from several European scholars. The articles cover a series of topics concerning energy policies, risk communication, and sustainable development. The increasingly complex social organization emerging from the energy shifts of the last two centuries, incorporates an increasing quantity of expert knowledge. Quite paradoxically, when the expert systems seem to be realizing the dream of total control on the uncertainty of the events, any occasional accident reveals to be a check for them contributes to undermining their credibility. Following the idea of a post-democratic turn, this kind of mistrust can be considered a different face of political elites and politics in general, in the frame of a radical change concerning political culture in the last several decades. This change is clear in areas such as risk communication, governance, and energy policies.
Author : Jeffrey St. Clair
Publisher : AK Press
Page : pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1849353379
The world as we know it is undergoing a sudden and violent transformation, unlike anything the planet has experienced since the Cretaceous Extinction. The evidence is all around us: vast droughts that last decades, super-storms and floods that destroy cities, dwindling aquifers, vanishing glaciers, toxic water supplies, raging wildfires, obscure new diseases, vanishing species and indigenous communities. Our planet is changing faster than evolution can keep up. The forces driving this radical transformation are not natural. The earth has been brought to the brink by a greed-based predatory economic system that chews up anything in its path and spits it out to the bitter end. Environmental journalists Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank take you on a sobering field trip through the danger zones; from the strip mines of Appalachia to last refuge of the grizzly, from the dirty fracking fields to the world s most dangerous place, the Hanford Nuclear Site in the Pacific Northwest. The Big Heat charts the battle lines for the future of the planet, from corporate villains to corrupt politicians and the fearless environmentalists who are standing up against the pillaging. This is an unflinching chronicle of the last fight that really matters.
