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You are a journalist for TIME magazine.
You have noticed the lack of human- or victim-centred perspectives on nuclear weapons. So often you are encountering strategic military positions, state-centred frames, or the expert opinion of scientists, diplomats and officers.
You want to design a magazine cover that draws the reader’s attention to the people affected by nuclear weapons. These people can be living or dead, they may be from past or present, and they may be from near or far. Perhaps they were victims of Hiroshima or Nagaskai. Perhaps they were impacted by radiation as a result of mining, production, or testing.
You must decide how you will represent this issue:
What will you include? What will you exclude? What will you highlight? What will you background?
Be ready to present:
(1) a central image or illustration (you may find this online or create your own)
(2) an accompanying headline
(3) a justification for your choices
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| Topic / Subject Matter | Deterrence, Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons |
| Skillset | Critical Thinking |
| Lens / Approach / Method | Decolonization, Feminism, Gender |
| Download Category | Educational |
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| Activity Type | Art Prompt |
| Audiences | College, High School |
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| Group or Individual | Groups, Individuals |
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| Divisible | No |
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Core Readings: The core readings by Teresia K. Teaiwa and Robert A. Jacobs will help you to identify whose bodies have been impacted by nuclear weapons and in what ways, while the short story by Terry Tempest-Williams will help you to understand this impact as a lived experience, affecting generations. Jacobs, Robert A. (2022) ‘Hypocenter’, Chapter 1 in Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha, Yale University Press (2022). Available at: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/_/fZldEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1 Teaiwa, Teresia K. (1994) ‘bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans’, The Contemporary Pacific 6 (1): 87-109. Available here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23701591, reprinted as Chapter 9 in Sweat and Salt Tears: Selected Writings, University of Hawaii Press (2021), also available several places online, including here: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/5102189.pdf Tempest Williams, Terry (1992) ‘The Clan of One-Breasted Women’, in Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Vintage. Available at: https://www.personal.psu.edu/users/c/f/cfu1/2013%20Files/WEEK%208%20FILES/The%20Clan%20of%20One-Breasted%20Women.pdf
Activity resources:
Hibakusha Stories. Url: https://hibakushastories.org/ Nuclear Voices Project. Url: https://www.nuclearvoices.org/ Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age, Exhibition curated by Yasuko Claremont (2022). Url: https://www.sydney.edu.au/architecture/about/tin-sheds-gallery/past-exhibitions/art-and-activism-in-the-nuclear-age.html Downwinders in the US. Url: https://www.healutah.org/ourwork/ National Geographic photography of Kazakhstan’s nuclear weapons test sites. Url: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/nuclear-ghosts-kazakhstan The Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Japan-US research organisation. Url: https://www.rerf.or.jp/en/ Radiation experiments with Indigenous Peoples. Url: https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/nuclear-war-uranium-mining-and-nuclear-tests-indigenous
Further readings:
Gusterson, Hugh (1996) ‘Bodies and Machines’, Chapter 5 in Nuclear Rites, A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War, University of California Press.
Dimmen, Anne Guro (2014) ‘Gendered Impacts: The Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons from a Gender Perspective’, UNIDIR and ILPI. Available at: https://unidir.org/sites/default/files/publication/pdfs/gendered-impacts-en-620.pdf Johnston, Barbara Rose (2007) ‘“More like Us than Mice”: Radiation Experiments with Indigenous Peoples’ in Barbara Rose Johnston (ed.), Half Lives and Half Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War, School for Advanced Studies.
Maurer, Anaïs (2018) ‘Nukes and Nudes: Counter-Hegemonic Identities in the Nuclearized Pacific’, French Studies 72 (3): 394-411 Olson, Mary (2011) ‘Atomic Radiation is More Harmful to Women’, Nuclear Monitor 736. Available at: https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/736/atomic-radiation-more-harmful-women Trask, Haunani Kay (2004) ‘The Color of Violence’, Social Justice 31 (4): 8–16. |
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