{"product_id":"nuclear-remains-on-temporalities-responsibilities-and-values-9780262052856","title":"Nuclear Remains: On Temporalities, Responsibilities, and Values","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Basak Sarac-Lesavre\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Power Resources - Nuclear\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ethnography of U.S. nuclear waste policy, and how to understand contemporary societies' attempts to establish \"good\" relations with the future.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContemporary societies are often criticized for their incapacity to account for the long term. \u003ci\u003eNuclear Remains\u003c\/i\u003e asks what happens when a society decides to think long term--examining the US efforts to hold present and distant futures together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on the case of the US nuclear waste program, Başak Sara�-Lesavre argues that no temporal orientation is inherently ethical; what matters is how temporal orientations construed as desirable get translated into action. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo analyze how concerned actors seek to establish \"good\" relations between past, present, and future, Sara�-Lesavre introduces the problem of rendez-vous framework--tracing how temporal gaps are identified and resolutions formulated and inscribed in different forms of arrangements. Her multisited ethnographic research takes readers from Congressional debates over funding--to reconcile accountability to and immunity from politics--to Carlsbad, New Mexico, where local actors have been trying to keep their community attached to nuclear futures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver time, these arrangements face tests. They are barely ever considered au rendez-vous when meeting contemporary conditions, yet they produce significant effects: material, economic, political, and moral relations, and ultimately, societies themselves. This framework applies broadly to cases where temporal relations are at stake: climate change adaptation, government of commons, pension schemes, energy transition, and care systems.","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890258362519,"sku":"9780262052856","price":5220.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780262052856.webp?v=1781179300","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/nuclear-remains-on-temporalities-responsibilities-and-values-9780262052856","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}