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Dr. Anne Sisson Runyan is in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Her publications include Global Gender Politics (Routledge 2019), the co-edited volumes Gender and Global Restructuring (Routledge 2000, 2011, and a third edition in progress) and Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America (Routledge 2013), and a host of articles and chapters in the field of feminist international relations in which she has been recognized as an eminent scholar. She has served as a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at York University in Canada where she begun her current research program on nuclear colonialism and as a vice president of the International Studies Association and an associate editor of the International Journal of Feminist Politics.runyanas@ucmail.uc.edu
Dr. Tiara Na'puti is a global and international studies assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine. She studies issues of militarism and sovereignty in the Pacific Islands, specifically Guåhan/Guam. As an Indigenous Chamoru (familian Robat & Kaderon), she is committed to understanding how Indigenous communities address issues of political status as well as militarization and climate change. Na’puti earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in communication studies at The University of Texas at Austin. She has published in journals including American Quarterly, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Feminist Studies. Her public scholarship about militarism in U.S. territories has appeared in venues such as In These Times and Common Dreams. And she testified at the United Nations Special Political and Decolonization Committee (4th Committee) on the political status of Guåhan. She's a member of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), the National Communication Association and the Rhetoric Society of America.tnaputi@uci.edu
Riley Taitinfong is a researcher and educator working on issues of environmental justice, Indigenous self-determination, emerging technologies, and community engagement. She completed her PhD in Communication at the University of California San Diego, where her project focused on Indigenous governance of genetic engineering technologies known as gene drives. Riley is currently a postdoctoral researcher with Udall and the Native Nations Institute, working on the implementation of CARE Principles of Indigenous Data Governance within data repositories. As a CHamoru researcher, Riley is committed to building cross-movement solidarity among Indigenous communities from Oceania to Turtle Island.rtaiting@ucsd.edu
Dr. Anna Weichselbraun holds a research and teaching postdoc (2018-2024) in the Department of European Ethnology at the University of Vienna. She earned a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (2016) with a dissertation on the International Atomic Energy Agency’s safeguards system, and completed a postdoc at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation where she published commentaries on the IAEA and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Her work draws on semiotic analysis to examine how technology, knowledge, and political values combine to form the “common sense” of global technological governance in the Anthropocene. Her book manuscript “The Order of Nuclear Things: Making Safeguards Technical” is currently under review at Cornell University Press. She has published articles from her research on the IAEA in Cultural Anthropology and PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. anna.weichselbraun@gmail.com
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More-Than-Human Module for Decolonizing Nuclear Studies beginning guide to objectives and contents.Learning Objectives
- The More-than-Human Module Learning Objectives are: 1. Learn to critically engage with maps in order to reorder their established sense of the world, deconstruct hegemonic ways of looking at the world, introduce a decolonial perspective, connect to the natural world, and change our way of seeing. 2. Identify radioactive spaces and places and their interrelations across the natural world and evaluate the environmental impacts of radiotoxicity on the more-than-human world. 3. Inter-relate ecological and nuclear colonialism to rethink ecological protection. 4. Critically reflect on prospects for environmental justice and more just relations within the more-than-human world.
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This is a PDF of three activities that focus on the contamination lens of the learning module.Learning Objectives
- Identify radioactive spaces and places and their interrelations across the natural world; evaluate the environmental impacts of radiotoxicity on the more-than-human world.
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Essay explaining the contamination lens with references.
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- Identify radioactive spaces and places and their interrelations across the natural world; evaluate the environmental impacts of radiotoxicity on the more-than-human world.
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This is a combined resources list for all the references used in the various essays and activities within the more-than-human module.
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Learning Activities: Place-Based (Contestation/Connectivity)
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This is a PDF of two assignments that focus on place-based activities for the contestation/connectivity lens of the learning module.Learning Objectives
- Learning objective 4: Critically reflect on prospects for environmental justice and more just relations between the more-than-human and humans.
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Learning Activities: Land & Water Stories (Contestation/Connectivity)
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This power point provides some learning activities related to the "Contestation/Connectivity" lensLearning Objectives
- Learning objective 4: Critically reflect on prospects for environmental justice and more just relations between the more-than-human and humans.
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Essay explaining the contestation/connectivity lens with references and links to learning activities/assignments and suggested resources.Learning Objectives
- Learning objective 4: Critically reflect on prospects for environmental justice and more just relations between the more-than-human and humans.
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This activity prompts students to Locate, Identify, Examine, and Experience different nuclear-related sites (the examples in this exercise are Rocky Flats and Chernobyl) taking into account more-than-human perspectives.Learning Objectives
- research historical nuclear sites
- engage more-than-human analytic perspectives
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In this activity, students are prompted to map a nuclear "object" in various dimensions, and to attempt to represent this object and its circulations with a map as well as through an explanatory essay.Learning Objectives
- identify how nuclear objects circulate in time and space
- critically engage with maps
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This module invites students to engage critically with maps, understood as political instruments of knowledge. Two exercises encourage students to consider maps and their representational limits and possibilities.Learning Objectives
- critically engage with maps
- understand maps as political instruments of knowledge
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This essay introduces how nuclear technologies and materials circulate as well as efforts and failures to control this circulation. It also provides a list of sources and resources for further reading and research.
Learning Objectives
- critically engage with maps
- identify radioactive spaces and places
- evaluate the environmental impacts of radiotoxicity on the more-than-human world
- introduce a decolonial way of seeing
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Provides an introductory essay, "The More-Than-Human World and Nuclear Studies: Ecological, Posthuman, and Indigenous Thought," and an overview of the More Than Human Module, including questions for discussion learning activity based on essay.
Learning Objectives
- 1. Learn to critically engage with maps in order to reorder their established sense of the world, deconstruct hegemonic ways of looking at the world, introduce a decolonial perspective, connect to the natural world, and change our way of seeing. 2. Identify radioactive spaces and places and their interrelations across the natural world and evaluate the environmental impacts of radiotoxicity on the more-than-human world. 3. Inter-relate ecological and nuclear colonialism to rethink ecological protection. 4. Critically reflect on prospects for environmental justice and more just relations within the more-than-human world.
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Learning Activities arising from Conservation discussion within More Than Human module for Decolonizing Nuclear Studies course.Learning Objectives
- Inter-relate ecological and nuclear colonialism to rethink ecological protection
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Discussion of problematics of siting nuclear installations near nature preserves (and typically on Indigenous land) and creating nature preserves on sites of decommissioned nuclear installations in the name of conservation.Learning Objectives
- Inter-relate ecological and nuclear colonialism to rethink ecological protection