Nuclear Knowledges - Peer-reviewed paper

From Secrecy to Public Containment: The Role of Hybrid Spaces in the Governance of Nuclear Crises in France

benoit.pelopidas — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:30:07 +0000

Auteur:

Valerie Arnhold

Date:

Fri, 02/09/2022

How do some large-scale adverse events receive major media coverage and become crises for public actors while others are treated as routine events? This article reinvestigates this question based on a case study of the media treatment in France of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents.

Liens:

https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sf/soac087/6686733

Hiroshima in Egypt: interpretations and imaginations of the atomic age

benoit.pelopidas — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:22:11 +0000

Auteur:

Hebatalla Taha

Date:

Wed, 13/04/2022

This article focuses on Egyptian interpretations of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US at the end of the Second World War. It surveys the reactions and responses of influential thinkers between 1945 and 1951, a crucial period prior to decolonisation. The objective of this research is to capture a specific moment in time and understand how it shaped imaginations of the future. The article argues that the bombings of Japan generated fantasies and anxieties about the postcolonial future.

Liens:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2022.2059461

Atomic aesthetics: gender, visualization and popular culture in Egypt

benoit.pelopidas — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:19:46 +0000

Auteur:

Hebatalla Taha

Date:

Fri, 01/07/2022

How was the atomic age visualized in Egypt in the years immediately after the creation of the bomb? What role did gendered images, symbols and metaphors play in narrating and normalizing nuclear technology? How can these help us understand nuclear policy today? This article engages visual and textual media, including satirical magazines, cultural journals and film.

Liens:

https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/98/4/1169/6628384

La question du secret nucléaire : technologie, secrets d’État et enjeux démocratiques

benoit.pelopidas — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:15:44 +0000

Auteur:

Thomas Fraise

Date:

Fri, 01/04/2022

Les trois ouvrages étudiés ici font tous du secret nucléaire un objet de sciences sociales. Leur lecture permet à la fois de mieux le comprendre, mais aussi d’identifier les pistes de recherches qu’il ouvre à la science politique : comprendre comment l’État en vient à changer sous l’influence des armes nucléaires, évaluer cet effet en termes de gouvernance démocratique et déterminer le champ du connaissable et de l’imaginable en matière nucléaire.

Liens:

https://www.cairn.info/revue-critique-internationale-2022-2-page-172.htm

Seizing Nuclear Tehran: Obstacles to Understanding Iranian Nuclear Activities

benoit.pelopidas — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:02:13 +0000

Auteur:

Clément Therme, Kjolv Egeland and Heba Taha

Date:

Sun, 01/05/2022

In this article, we interrogate some of the central assumptions in the literature on Iran’s nuclear behavior, including the role of the United States as a benevolent hegemon, the revisionist character of the Iranian government, the utility and efficacy of sanctions, and the widespread assumption that Iran is bent on obtaining and even using the bomb. We maintain that contemporary debates on the Iranian nuclear issue display similarities to Kremlinology during the Cold War, being deeply politicized and subject to bias and self-censorship.

Liens:

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/865498/pdf?casa_token=s05vHiVZNrQAAAAA:xHCsl9MAbwyZ...

Climate security reversed: the implications of alternative security policies for global warming

benoit.pelopidas — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 17:58:33 +0000

Auteur:

Kjolv Egeland

Date:

Thu, 17/11/2022

Policymakers and scholars have in recent years paid increasing attention to the climate–security nexus. However, discussions have been overwhelmingly focused on the security implications of climate change, neglecting the question of the climate implications of alternative approaches to security. On closer inspection, security policies can impact global warming in at least four ways. First, security apparatuses produce direct greenhouse gas emissions.

Liens:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2022.2146934

Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation

benoit.pelopidas — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 17:50:19 +0000

Auteur:

Kjolv Egeland

Date:

Thu, 01/09/2022

Several observers have in recent years discussed the prospects for advancing arms control and disarmament through determined efforts at delegitimizing nuclear weapons. But surprisingly little attention has been devoted to the question of how nuclear weapons are legitimized in the first place.

Liens:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41311-022-00404-w

Imaginer la possibilité de la guerre nucléaire pour y faire face

benoit.pelopidas — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 17:45:33 +0000

Auteur:

Benoît Pelopidas

Date:

Fri, 01/01/2021

Comment les citoyens peuvent-ils se figurer la possibilité de la guerre nucléaire pour y faire face politiquement ? Pour répondre à cette nouvelle question, cette intervention s’inscrit dans la lignée des travaux sur la culture populaire visuelle et avance trois arguments.

Liens:

https://journals.openedition.org/conflits/22798

Casting the atomic canon: (R)evolving nuclear strategy

benoit.pelopidas — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 17:36:10 +0000

Auteur:

Kjolv Egeland, Thomas Fraise and Heba Taha

Date:

Sun, 12/09/2021

Looming decisions on arms control and strategic weapon procurements in a range of nuclear-armed states are set to shape the international security environment for decades to come. In this context, it is crucial to understand the concepts, theories, and debates that condition nuclear policymaking.

Liens:

https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03519732/file/2021_fraise-egelan...

Measuring public knowledge on nuclear weapons in the post-Cold War

benoit.pelopidas — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 17:22:54 +0000

Auteur:

Fabricio M. Fialho

Date:

Fri, 01/01/2021

Research on public opinion and international security has extensively examined attitudes toward nuclear weapons, but the difusion of basic knowledge about nuclear weapons among the everyday citizens has nevertheless been mostly missed. This study proposes a working defnition and advances a measurement model of knowledge on nuclear weapons in the general public.

Liens:

https://measurementinstrumentssocialscience.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.118...