The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects After Chernobyl

The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects After Chernobyl
ISBN-10
0262325411
ISBN-13
9780262325417
Category
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986
Pages
263
Language
English
Published
2014-09-02
Author
Olga Kuchinskaya

Description

Olga Kuchinskaya explores how we know what we know about Chernobyl, describing how the consequences of a nuclear accident were made invisible. The analysis sheds valuable light on how we deal with other modern hazards - toxins or global warming - that are largely imperceptible to the human senses. The book describes the production of invisibility of Chernobyl's consequences in Belarus - practices that limit public attention to radiation and make its health effects impossible to observe. The production of invisibility, the book argues, is a function of power relations.

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