Uranium exposed at Expo 58: the colonial agenda behind the peaceful atom
| Autor: | Dennis Pohl |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Technology
architecture atoms for peace media_common.quotation_subject postcolonial Expo 58 Geopolitics Colonialism Backwardness Power (social and political) uranium Politics History and Philosophy of Science Political science Nuclear Expo58 media_common business.industry Atomic energy Modernity transnational Nuclear power Economy Congo technopolitics ddc:720 business |
| Zdroj: | History and technology, 37 (2), 172–202 History and Technology, 37(2) |
| ISSN: | 0734-1512 1477-2620 |
| DOI: | 10.5445/ir/1000142888 |
| Popis: | This research focuses on the staged contrast between atomic modernity and colonial backwardness at Expo 58 in Brussels, as a strategic promise of the peaceful nuclear, powered by Congolese uranium. I analyze the management of nuclear power ��� ranging from household technologies to European (post)colonial infrastructures of uranium resources and nuclear power plants ��� to reveal architecture as a geopolitical technology. The article argues that the ���domestication of the atom��� goes hand in hand with the domestication of power, exercised through architecture on various levels, affecting the politics of visibility, knowledge, and imagination. The article examines Expo 58 as a case study, where global uranium agents such as the Union Mini��re du Haut-Katanga (UMHK), the US Atomic Energy Commission (USAEC), the Belgian Centre d�����tudes pour les applications de l���Energie Nucl��aire (SKC-CEN), and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) met in a setting that constructed both a Western scientific gaze and colonial backwardness. |
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