The Nuclear Peninsula

Zonabend, Françoise

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“…La sociología interpretativa del riesgo se fundamenta en epistemologías interaccionistas, tradiciones hermenéuticas y metodologías próximas a la investigación etnográfica (Fitchen et al, 1987;Macgill, 1987, Zonabend 1993Irwin et al, 1996Irwin et al, , 1999Walker et al, 1998). Todas estas perspectivas reconocen la centralidad de la interpretación y de los significados en la conformación de las interacciones sociales, y privilegian un tipo de investigación social más receptiva a las lógicas específicas que estructuran las prácticas de las personas y el sentido que estas les otorgan.…”

Section: La Percepción Del Riesgo Desde Perspectivas Reflexivas E Intunclassified

Riesgos tecnológicos, conflictos sociales y políticas ambientales. Del estudio de las percepciones a la implicación pública

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Espluga

Horlick‐Jones

2015

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ResumenLa gestión de los riesgos tecnológicos y ambientales, junto con la promoción del desarrollo sostenible, ha constituido un pilar esencial de las políticas públicas de las últimas décadas. Una buena parte de estas políticas ha pretendido influir en la opinión pública, fomentando comportamientos preventivos y/o evitando aquellos que no resultan sostenibles. Sin embargo, la ciudadanía no suele seguir estas recomendaciones sin más, sino que despliega un amplio rango de acciones que van desde la mera indiferencia hasta el rechazo o la protesta, lo que, a su vez, puede traducirse en una mayor degradación ambiental o en una excesiva exposición al riesgo por parte de la población. Este desajuste entre los objetivos de las políticas ambientales y los comportamientos de la ciudadanía constituye un aspecto crítico, tanto para la gobernanza del riesgo como para la legitimidad democrática. El presente artículo muestra cómo la investigación social ha intentado comprender y resolver estos retos. Mediante una revisión bibliográfica, se analiza el origen y la evolución de los estudios sobre percepción y comunicación social del riesgo, desde las aproximaciones más tecnocráticas de los inicios hasta las más participativas de los últimos tiempos, destacando sus fortalezas y debilidades respectivas. Finalmente, en un intento de ilustrar los enfoques actuales más innovadores, se introduce el método STAVE como un ejemplo de interconexión (mediante procedimientos de brokerage) de la esfera de la elaboración de políticas ambientales con la esfera de la vida cotidiana de la ciudadanía. Palabras

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Section: La Percepción Del Riesgo Desde Perspectivas Reflexivas E Intunclassified

Riesgos tecnológicos, conflictos sociales y políticas ambientales. Del estudio de las percepciones a la implicación pública

Prades¹,

Espluga

Horlick‐Jones

2015

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“…Zonabend (1993), in her study of those living near to the La Hague reprocessing plant in France, similarly speaks of a sustained distrust of the plant operator (COGEMA), borne of a collective feeling of being manipulated by higher powers and a legacy of past incidents that had become "symbolic events" that will "forever punctuate collective memory" (page 52). The following remark from one Copeland Parish councillor (CPC) evokes a similar reading of Nirex as a force of domination:…”

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“…Zonabend (1993) on La Hague, France]. As Wynne et al (1993, page 4) remark: West Cumbria has historically been viewed, both from the outside and the inside, as "a place stigmatised in the eyes of the rest of the country by its perceived servile dependent relationship to the nuclear industry, come what may.…”

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“Because We've Got History Here”: Nuclear Waste, Cooperative Siting, and the Relational Geography of a Complex Issue

Bickerstaff

2012

Environ Plan A

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This paper takes as its focus recent developments in UK radioactive waste management policy and, through a relational reading of siting confl icts, stresses the need to locate, historically, controversy that takes place in the present. In particular, I argue that temporally distant actors and events, which remain culturally very salient, are critical in shaping the pathway of contentious planning processes. Here I trace the space-time relations that confi gure the (possible) siting of a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) for higher activity nuclear waste, through a cooperative process of volunteerism, as a matter of concern for publics in West Cumbria. The history, economy, and culture of West Cumbria is intimately connected with the nuclear industry-and, at the time of writing, the region represents the only area of England and Wales for which there are recorded expressions of interest in hosting a GDF. The paper demonstrates that controversy centred on the spatial ordering of the siting process by government-a politics that was rooted in the area's history with nuclear waste-and the actors and events that had structured this past. In this regard, I argue for a geographical reading of siting controversy that acknowledges the agency of the absent, and the play of distant others in confi guring a public politics of the present.

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“…Publics here are supposed to be quiescent witnesses (Reno, 2011); convinced by the concept demonstrations, confident in technology's capacities to order and corral HAW into distant futures, and trusting of the nuclear waste management industry's technological capacities and decision-taking (c.f. Zonabend, 1989). …”

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Projected Futures: The Political Matter of UK Higher Activity Radioactive Waste

Gregson

2012

Environ Plan A

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This paper identifi es, and works from, the technoconceptual as a site of intervention for a politics of stuff . Its case is radioactive waste: specifi cally, UK higher activity wastes (HAW) and the policy future of a UK Deep Geological Disposal Facility (DGF). The paper proceeds through three steps. It charts, fi rst, the unravelling of HAW as onto-politics through the democratisation of technoscience, showing that, as the gap between stuff and politics has opened, HAW's future in a DGF has become the preserve of science-technical discourses (currently geology and engineered design). Secondly, it joins with the undone-science traditions of STS (science, technology, and society), to critique existing technoscientifi c conceptualisations of a DGF and to anticipate a future in which a DGF is abandoned. Third, and in response to abandonment, it proposes a diff erent future for a DGF. This starts from thinking radioactive waste as 'thing power' but argues that, for a DGF to be materialised in ways that forge attachments with publics, requires a turn to material culture. More broadly, the paper argues that furthering ontopolitics requires keeping the demos alive to stuff 's vitality. This means engaging in political settlements of technoscientifi c controversies; with old, or established, technologies, and 'cold' politics; and in politics as practised.

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The Nuclear Peninsula

Cited by 84 publications

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Riesgos tecnológicos, conflictos sociales y políticas ambientales. Del estudio de las percepciones a la implicación pública

Riesgos tecnológicos, conflictos sociales y políticas ambientales. Del estudio de las percepciones a la implicación pública

“Because We've Got History Here”: Nuclear Waste, Cooperative Siting, and the Relational Geography of a Complex Issue

Projected Futures: The Political Matter of UK Higher Activity Radioactive Waste

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