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Indlæser... The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (1998)af Gabrielle Hecht
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Images from the French countryside often show enormous nuclear cooling towers juxtaposed with idyllic villages and old castles. The French take just as much pride in the technological artifacts as in the traditional countryside. This award-winning book from Gabrielle Hecht examines how technology, politics, the environment, and national identity have interacted to create modern French culture. She examines the history of French nuclear power during the 1950s and 1960s in great detail. Her strategy is "to trace the social, political, and cultural life of reactors as artifacts" (p. 5). Her two main protagonists are the competing institutions Électricité de France (EDF) and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA). The main question was what a nuclear reactor really was: should it be built for energy production or to provide plutonium for French nuclear arms program? Thus, politics and technology were deliberately embedded in the early nuclear reactors, restricting and shaping future developments. Hecht argues that acknowledging the political nature of technological development – technopolitics – may contribute to including and respecting “the full range of stakeholders in technical decisions” (p. 339). ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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