Resisting the Nuclear

Edited by Elyssa Faison and Alison Fields

"This interdisciplinary edited collection features historians, anthropologists, artists, and activists who explore a transpacific understanding of the legacies of the testing and use of nuclear weapons. Instead of limiting the focus of the nuclear humanities to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these essays take readers from the New Mexican desert, to the islands of the Pacific Ocean, to small fishing villages on the island of Shikoku in Japan. They bring together different times and places as well as art historical analysis and academic essays. Focusing on themes of resistance, this collection illustrates the varied methods artists and activists can use to combat nuclear regimes through their aesthetic and political work. By putting activists and artists together, it demonstrates the overlaps and linkages between them as well as the different ways political and artistic expression can respond to nuclear threats and effect change. Through the personal testimonies of hibakushas, lawsuits filed to demand compensation for the medical treatment of affected fisherman, community education programs that raise historical awareness, and artistic projects that provide social commentary, this volume illustrates that nuclear resistance can come in many forms"--

AcknowledgmentsNote on Naming and Orthography Introduction: Visuality, Temporality, Geography Elyssa Faison and Alison Fields1 Targeting the Pacific: World War II in Asian American and Pacific Islander Art Margo MachidaPART ONE. REMEMBERING ORIGINARY MOMENTS: TRINITY, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI2 Security and Sacrifice: Nuclear Tourism in New Mexico Melanie Armstrong3 A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado: Art and Activism in the Digital Space Melanie Armstrong, Sarah Kanouse, and Shiloh R. Krupar4 Atoms for Life and for Death: Nuclear Energy and Hiroshima Activism in the 1950s Ran Zwigenberg5 The Politics of Antimonumentalism: An Exhibit in Five Cities Shinpei Takeda6 The Antimonument Research Collective Shuhei Matsukubo, Mariko Mikami, Maika Nakao, and Shinpei Takeda7 Creating the Atomic Sublime: The Perpetual Production of Nuclear In/Security Jennifer Richter and Sherri WassermanPART TWO. LEGACIES OF THE BIKINI TEST8 Resisting US Nuclear Tests: The UN Petition from the Marshall Islands Seiichirö Takemine9 Arts Education and the Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall Islands Jasmine alik, Holly Barker, Keyoka Kabua, Ariana Tibon, and Leimamo Wase10 Nuclear Temples Peter Goin11 Housewives Petitioning for World Peace: Ban-the-Bomb Activism in Cold War Japan Akiko Takenaka12 Voices of Deep-Sea Tuna Fishermen in the Japanese Anti-Nuclear Test Movement Yuka Tsuchiya MoriguchiPART THREE. TRANSPACIFIC ACTIVISMS13 A Long Road to Disability Compensation in Cold War America Naoko Wake14 Barbara Reynolds and the Politics of Transnational Antinuclear Activism Elyssa Faison15 An Interview with Artist Will Wilson Alison Fields and Will Wilson16 Food Cultivation as Artistic Activism after Nuclear Disaster Alison FieldsContributors Index