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“De la percepción popular a la reflexión erudite: La transmisión de la ‘cultura de la catástrofe’ en la España del siglo XVIII”

In this article, Alberola argues that while the first formal reflections on the physical nature of disasters appeared in the philosophical and scientific works of the Classical era, it was in the eighteenth century that these environmental ideas took…

Tags: 18th century, catastrophe, disciplines, natural disasters, Spain, upheavals

Hiroshima o mochikaetta hitobito: “Kankoku no Hiroshima ha naze umareta no ka (Bringing back Hiroshima: The birth of “Hiroshima in Korea”)

This book is about Korean survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Although little-known, approximately 1 in 10 people victimized by the bombs were Koreans who had come to Japan since the turn-of-the-century. Their history…

Tags: catastrophe, collective identity, colonialism, destruction, migration, social reorganization, upheavals

Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats

Investigative journalism at its best, Full Body Burden tells a story of people and community in Rocky Flats near Denver, Colorado, where a secret nuclear power plant was a major site of employment in the region throughout the 1960s and 1970s.…

Tags: catastrophe, citizenship, resilience, science, upheavals

Half-Lives & Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War

This anthology reveals the still-unfolding legacies of the nuclear age. Focusing on on a range of locations including Marshall Islands, Hanford, US Southwest, Alaska, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Hiroshima, fifteen contributing anthropologists shed light…

Tags: catastrophe, ethnicity, race, science, upheavals

L’invention de la catastrophe au xviiie siècle: du châtiment au désastre naturel

In the spirit of Starobinski's L'invention de la liberté, 1700-1789, essays in this edited volume consider the invention of "catastrophe" in the eighteenth century, i.e. the idea of catastrophe as a natural event and an aesthetic object was born in…

Tags: 18th century, catastrophe, disciplines, enlightenment, Europe, risk, upheavals

Hiroshima: Three Witnesses

Hiroshima: Three Witnesses is a translation of “atomic bomb literature,” created by three Japanese authors Ota Yōko, Hara Tamiki, and Toge Sankichi, all of whom survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945. As both a witness and a writer,…

Tags: art, catastrophe, culture, destruction, landscape, science, social reorganization, upheavals

Oral histories of North and South American survivors of the atomic bombs

Consisting of fifty-six oral histories of survivors collected by Mexico-based artist Shinpei Takeda from 2005 to 2010, as well as seventy-three oral histories of U.S. survivors and their supporters collected by US historian Naoko Wake from 2010 to…

Tags: catastrophe, citizenship, collective identity, colonialism, destruction, diaspora, gender, migration, race, upheavals

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Explores the representational challenges posed by environmental catastrophes that unfold incrementally, in a less spectacular, less visible way than dramatic events. Nixon presents examples of writers doing the conceptual work of making "slow…

Tags: catastrophe, climate, climate change, literature

Les tremblements de terre aux xviie et xviiie siècles: la naissance d’un risque

Tags: catastrophe, disciplines, earthquakes, risk

Sex, Health, and Feminism in Trans-Pacific World

HEALTH, SEX, AND FEMINISM ACCESSIBLE.pdf

This senior seminar Health, Sex, and Feminism in the Trans-Pacific World explores issues of gender, sexuality, and health/illness in the contexts of nation states, colonialism, and post-colonialism, with a focus on four pertinent areas of conflict…

Tags: catastrophe, feminism, gender and sexuality studies, syllabus, undergraduate course, women's studies, world history

Worksheet on the Hiroshima Maidens

Worksheet on the Hiroshima Maidens Accessible.pdf

This is an in-class assignment about the "Hiroshima Maidens," Japanese women whose faces had been severely scarred by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, who came to the United States in the mid-1950 to receive "corrective" surgeries. The…

Tags: catastrophe, cultural studies, in-class assignment, race, women's studies

Worksheet on the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission I

Worksheet on the ABCC I Accessible.pdf

This is an in-class assignment about the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, a US research institute established after WWII in Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to study effect of radiation on humans. The worksheet is based on a couple of…

Tags: catastrophe, colonialism, cultural studies, disciplines, ethics, in-class assignment, science, women's studies

Worksheet on the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission II

Worksheet on the ABCC II Accessible.pdf

This is an in-class assignment about the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, a US research institute established after WWII in Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to study effect of radiation on humans. The worksheet is based on a couple of…

Tags: catastrophe, colonialism, cultural studies, disciplines, ethics, in-class assignment, science, women's studies

FRN 825:The Marquis de Sade: From materialist philosophy to popular culture and feminist theory

Dr. Steinberg gives a lecture on the relationships of Sade with the French Revolution.

Tags: catastrophe, French Revolution, history, podcast, Sade, violence

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