Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan)
• Monday 19 May 2014, 16:30-18:00
• McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact David Thompson.

Nineteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Radioactive excess in African uranium mining offers a window into the global ontological instabilities of waste, value and the ‘nuclear’. This talk examines instances of such excess and instability in Gabon, Niger and South Africa over the last half-century. Which radioactive debris counted as ‘nuclear’, and which counted as ‘waste’? How and why did ‘Africa’ matter to these questions? In exploring these themes, Hecht probes the consequences of colliding time scales, spatial politics, and material inequalities for the production of colonial and postcolonial citizenships.

This talk is part of the Rausing Lecture series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• All Talks (aka the CURE list)
• Cambridge talks
• Chris Davis' list
• Department of History and Philosophy of Science
• Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
• Featured lists
• Featured talks
• Guy Emerson's list
• History and Philosophy of Science long list
• McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street
• Philosophy Events
• Rausing Lecture
• Trust & Technology Initiative - interesting events
• custom
• hc446
• jer64's list

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.