What, when & where
Date: April 11-13, 2024
Location: University of California, Santa Barbara
Conveners: Martin Klimke (New York University Abu Dhabi) and Amanda M. Nichols (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Conference Website: https://www.antinuclearactivism.org/
The detrimental effects of carbon-based fuel sources, including and especially their contribution to anthropogenic climate change, has motivated scientists to develop alternative renewable energy solutions. Among those, nuclear power has been the most highly contested because of the associated risks to the health and stability of ecological systems. Many scientists argue that a carbon-neutral energy future is not feasible without the continued development of nuclear power technologies. Anti-nuclear activists, however, have long argued that the potential associated dangers to the health and stability of ecological systems make nuclear power an unnecessarily risky response to the global energy crisis. They have expressed concerns, e.g., about the elevated risks of nuclear contamination incidents as global sea levels rise and threaten a majority of the world’s extant nuclear facilities and interim storage sites. Moreover, activists are increasingly concerned about social and environmental justice issues and the transgenerational effects of nuclear waste spills and radiation incidents on both human and ecosystem health and viability.
The nuclear debate raises many complicated questions at the intersection of ethics and technological innovation of our time, including ‘What are the long-term social and environmental justice implications of nuclear technologies when we consider the effects on both human and non-human species?’.
We welcome proposals from scholars working on intersectional approaches to global anti-nuclear activism in historical and contemporary perspective across the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences for a multi-day conference and writer’s workshop which will be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara in April 2024.
Selected participants will submit papers that will be pre-circulated among participants of a workshop in Santa Barbara, where they will engage with fellow participants and invited guest speakers and workshop their contributions for a peer-reviewed edited volume published with a university press.
Deadline & how to apply
Please visit our conference website, www.antinuclearactivism.org, to view the full CFP. Interested individuals should submit a 150-word abstract and a 500-1,000 word proposal by June 15, 2023.
Other info, Links & conditions
Decisions will be communicated to all applicants by August 31, 2023.
If you have further questions, please contact us at mail@antinuclearactivism.org.
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