Hot Spotter's Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste Contributor(s): Krupar, Shiloh R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816676399 ISBN-13: 9780816676392 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography |
Dewey: 363.728 |
LCCN: 2013007995 |
Series: Quadrant Books (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.57" W x 8.46" (0.97 lbs) 360 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description:
Using an unusual combination of empirical research, creative nonfiction, and fictional satire, Hot Spotter's Report examines how the biopolitics of war promotes the idea of a postmilitary and postnuclear world, naturalizing toxicity and limiting human relations with the past and the land. The book's case studies include the conversion of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal into a wildlife refuge, a project that draws on a green "creation story" to sanitize other histories of the site; the cleanup and management of the former plutonium factory Rocky Flats, where the supposed transfiguration of waste into wilderness allows the government to reduce the area it must manage; and a federal law intended to compensate ill nuclear bomb workers that has sometimes done more to benefit former weapons complexes. Detecting and exposing such "hot spots" of contamination, in part by satirizing government reports, Hot Spotter's Report seeks to cultivate irreverence, controversy, coalitional possibility, and ethical responses. The result is a darkly humorous but serious and powerful challenge to the biopolitics of war. |