Visions of a Nuclear Apocalypse: Notions of Nature in the 1970s Antinuclear Movement ... : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2023, no. 9: Visions of a Nuclear Apocalypse: Notions of Nature in the 1970s Antinuclear Movement ...
In 1970s Queensland, widespread concern about the perils of nuclear technology prompted an explosion of protest. Those seeking to avert a nuclear apocalypse used three arguments to mobilize supporters, which still resonate today: erosion of the rights of protesters, workers, and First Nations people...
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ftdatacite:10.5282/rcc/9611 2023-11-05T03:41:59+01:00 Visions of a Nuclear Apocalypse: Notions of Nature in the 1970s Antinuclear Movement ... : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2023, no. 9: Visions of a Nuclear Apocalypse: Notions of Nature in the 1970s Antinuclear Movement ... Gulliver, Robyn 2023 text/html https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9611 https://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/9611/ en eng Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany This refers only to the text and does not include any image rights. Please click on an image to view its individual rights status. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 environmental history environmental humanities antinuclear movement nuclear technology australia environmental movement activism Journal Article Text article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9611 2023-10-09T11:04:18Z In 1970s Queensland, widespread concern about the perils of nuclear technology prompted an explosion of protest. Those seeking to avert a nuclear apocalypse used three arguments to mobilize supporters, which still resonate today: erosion of the rights of protesters, workers, and First Nations peoples; profiteering and power grabbing by the nuclear industry; and harms to human health. While nature played an indirect role as a victim in these messages, one of the antinuclear movement’s legacies is its construction of a narrative connecting human survival to nature’s beneficence: in the nuclear age we are no longer the true masters of our own fate. ... Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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In 1970s Queensland, widespread concern about the perils of nuclear technology prompted an explosion of protest. Those seeking to avert a nuclear apocalypse used three arguments to mobilize supporters, which still resonate today: erosion of the rights of protesters, workers, and First Nations peoples; profiteering and power grabbing by the nuclear industry; and harms to human health. While nature played an indirect role as a victim in these messages, one of the antinuclear movement’s legacies is its construction of a narrative connecting human survival to nature’s beneficence: in the nuclear age we are no longer the true masters of our own fate. ... |
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Visions of a Nuclear Apocalypse: Notions of Nature in the 1970s Antinuclear Movement ... : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2023, no. 9: Visions of a Nuclear Apocalypse: Notions of Nature in the 1970s Antinuclear Movement ... |
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Visions of a Nuclear Apocalypse: Notions of Nature in the 1970s Antinuclear Movement ... : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2023, no. 9: Visions of a Nuclear Apocalypse: Notions of Nature in the 1970s Antinuclear Movement ... |
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