TY  - BOOK
AU  - askins, kye
AU  - johnstone, phil
AU  - Mason, Kelvin
AB  - "A Nuclear Refrain is a spatial fiction that critiques the   policy of nuclear deterrence, the concept of Mutually Assured   Destruction, and the UK’s decision to replace its Vanguard submarines,   so-called Trident replacement. We challenge that decision via extending   our geographical imaginations into the past, present, and future. Noting   the more usual economic, moral, and strategic objections to Trident and   its replacement, A Nuclear Refrain considers the issues from   less familiar perspectives: the emotional and embodied, empire and the   establishment, and the impact on democratic potentialities.  Set against the authors’ ongoing participation in extensive public   protests against the UK’s decision to replace Trident in 2016, A Nuclear Refrain   disrupts familiar academic and policy forms of writing. It is “an   uncomfortable hybrid between academia and fiction,” intent on   discomfiting the reader to spur the radical reimagining of a world   profoundly shaped by the threat of nuclear weapons. Inspired by author   and social critic Charles Dickens, this book draws on the form of A Christmas Carol.   Transported by “ghosts” of the nuclear past, present and future, a   pro-Trident British policy maker, the Right Honourable Roger C.   Bezeeneos, has his perceptions sorely challenged. But will Roger allow   his feelings to influence his decision-making? Will he recognize the   yearning for empire-lost that mobilizes the British establishment? And   will he admit the limiting of political participation that a commitment   to nuclear deterrence determines? It’s your call, Roger."
DO  - 10.21983/P3.0271.1.00
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006551
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135856110
KW  - nuclear deterrence
KW  - emotion
KW  - empire
KW  - democracy
KW  - spatial fiction
KW  - nuclear weapons
KW  - disarmament
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/64ad52bd-3ace-40fb-849e-e3ac438552aa/0271.1.00.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23595
PB  - punctum books
PP  - Brooklyn, NY
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9781950192625
SN  - 9781950192618
TI  - A Nuclear Refrain : Emotion, Empire, and the Democratic Potential of Protest
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