Resisting the Nuclear

Art and Activism across the Pacific

Elyssa Faison, Alison Fields, Elyssa Faison, Alison Fields, Laura Kina

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9780295752341
• eBook ISBN: 9780295752358
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art & Politics

A transpacific tour of nuclear humanities From uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed Indigenous lands. Sustained exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons and waste affects many communities from Japan to Oceania to the US West. While antinuclear activism often takes political and legal forms, artistic responses to nuclear regimes also prompt social action and resistance. Resisting the Nuclear is an interdisciplinary edited collection featuring historians, anthropologists, artists, and activists who explore the multifaceted forms of resistance to nuclear regimes. Through a combination of interviews, scholarly essays, and discussions of contemporary art, contributors recenter the victims of nuclear technologies and demonstrate how political and artistic expression can respond to nuclear threats and effect change.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Naming and Orthography
• Introduction: Visuality, Temporality, Geography
• 1. Targeting the Pacific: World War II in Asian American and Pacific Islander Art
• Part One. Remembering Originary Moments: Trinity, Hiroshima, Nagasaki
• Part Two. Legacies of the Bikini Test
• Part Three. Transpacific Activisms
• Color Plates
• Contributors
• Index