A Nuclear Refrain: Emotion, Empire, and the Democratic Potential of Protest

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dc.contributor.authorAskins, Kye
dc.contributor.authorJohnstone, Phil
dc.contributor.authorMason, Kelvin
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-28T08:56:39Z
dc.date.available2024-05-28T08:56:39Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-19
dc.date.updated2024-05-28T08:56:38Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.description.abstractA Nuclear Refrain is a spatial fiction, and miniature chapbook (measuring 4 X 6 inches), that critiques the policy of nuclear deterrence, the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction, and the UK’s decision to replace its Vanguard submarines, the 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, vis-a-vis the emotional and embodied, empire and the establishment, and 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 an empire lost that mobilizes the British establishment? And will he admit the suppression of political participation that a commitment to nuclear deterrence determines? It’s your call, Roger.
dc.description.versionVoR
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0271.1.00
dc.identifier.isbn9781950192618
dc.identifier.isbn9781950192625
dc.identifier.other88c47bd3-f8c9-4157-9d1a-770d9be8c173
dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/624
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherpunctum books
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectJWMN
dc.subjectTEC028000
dc.subjectdemocracy
dc.subjectdisarmament
dc.subjectemotion
dc.subjectempire
dc.subjectnuclear deterrence
dc.subjectnuclear weapons
dc.subjectspatial fiction
dc.titleA Nuclear Refrain: Emotion, Empire, and the Democratic Potential of Protest
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33
dcterms.accessRightsEmbargo: none

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