Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 667 g
A Transnational History of a Nuclear Disaster
Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 667 g
Reihe: Studies in Environment and History
ISBN: 978-1-009-45776-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
In the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, more than a million Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian children were sent abroad. Aided by the unprecedented efforts of transnational NGOs and private individuals, these children were meant to escape and recover from radiation exposure, but also from the increasing hardships of everyday life in post-Soviet society. Through this opening of the Soviet Union, hundreds of thousands of people in over forty countries witnessed the ecological, medical, social and political consequences of the disaster for the human beings involved. This awareness transformed the accident into a global catastrophe which could happen anywhere and have widespread impact. In this brilliantly insightful work, Melanie Arndt demonstrates that the Chernobyl children were both witness to and representative of a vanishing bipolar world order and the future of life in the Anthropocene, an age in which the human impact on the planet is increasingly borderless.
Weitere Infos & Material
List of figures; List of archives; Acknowledgements; Note on languages; List of abbreviations; Prologue: Prypiat – Artek – Boston; 1. A transnational disaster: currents and connections; 2. The disaster and after; 3. The Soviet Chernobyl children; 4. The Chernobyl children as 'children of the whole planet'; 5. The Chernobyl children; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.
