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008			200123s2019 nyu o 00 0 eng d
020			_a9781950192618
035			_a(OCoLC)1165162394
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
100	1		_aAskins, Kye, _eauthor.
245	1	2	_aA Nuclear Refrain : _bEmotion, Empire, and the Democratic Potential of Protest / _cKye Askins, Phil Johnstone, Kelvin Mason.
264		1	_a[Brooklyn, NY] : _bpunctum books, _c2019.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2021
264		4	_c©2019.
300			_a1 online resource (146 pages): _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aA 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."
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aNuclear weapons _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01040971
650		7	_aNuclear weapons. _2bicssc
650		0	_aSociology (General).
650		0	_aNuclear weapons _xFiction.
655		7	_aFiction _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423787
655		4	_bElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
700	1		_aMason, Kelvin, _eauthor.
700	1		_aJohnstone, Phil, _eauthor.
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/84186/
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