Nuclear Legacies: Communication, Controversy, and the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex

Bryan C. Taylor; William J. Kinsella; Stephen P. Depoe; Maribeth S. Metzler

doi:10.5771/9780739158326

Summary

Although the Cold War is commonly considered 'over,' the legacies of that conflict continue to unfold throughout the globe. One site of post-Cold War controversy involves the consequences of U.S. nuclear weapons production for worker safety, public health, and the environment. Over the past two decades, citizens, organizations, and governments have passionately debated the nature of these consequences, and how they should be managed. This volume clarifies the role of communication in creating, maintaining, and transforming the relationships between these parties, and in shaping the outcomes of related organizational and political deliberations. Providing various perspectives on nuclear culture and discourse, this anthology serves as a model of interdisciplinary communication scholarship that cuts across the subfields of political, environmental, and organizational communication studies, and rhetoric.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2007
Copyright Year: 2007
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-1904-4
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-5832-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 269
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1: Introduction: Linking Nuclear Legacies and Communication Studies No access Pages 1 - 38
1. 2: Convergence and Divergence in the Public Dialogue on Nuclear Weapons Cleanup No access
2. 3: Becoming Hanford Downwinders: Producing Community and Challenging Discursive Containment No access
3. 4: Regional Communication and Sense of Place Surrounding the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant No access
1. 5: Cold War Triumphant: The Rhetorical Uses of History, Memory, and Heritage Preservation within the Department of Energy's Nuclear Weapons Complex No access
2. 6: Truth is Generated HERE: Knowledge Loss and the Production of Nuclear Confidence in the Post-Cold War Era No access
3. 7: (Forever) At Work in the Fields of the Bomb: Images of Long-Term Stewardship in Post-Cold War Nuclear Discourse No access
1. 8: Response: Nuclear Legacies and Opportunities for Politically and Ethically Engaged Communication Scholarship No access
Index No access Pages 255 - 264
About the Contributors No access Pages 265 - 269