Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Basak Sarac - Lesavre - University of Manchester
| Dates: | 18 November 2020 |
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| Times: | 14:30 - 16:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Dr Basak Sarac - Lesavre |
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Social Anthropology Seminar
Wednesday 18th of November 2020
Dr Basak Sarac - Lesavre
University of Manchester
14:30 – 16:00pm
https://zoom.us/j/97257899519
Nuclear Remains
On Time, Valuation, and Responsibility
Nuclear waste remains. It is an ontological condition. It takes tens of thousands of years for the radioactivity of waste generated by nuclear power generation to decline and reach levels tolerable to human health. In a period marked by concerns about human intervention into geological time, Dr. Bas?ak Saraç-Lesavre uses the peculiar case of nuclear waste to examine how political communities, institutions of expertise and governmental actors have been grappling with temporal, epistemological, and ethical challenges posed by the containment of nuclear waste and the exceptional responsibilities associated with it. Drawing upon several years of multi-sited archival and ethnographic research on the U.S. nuclear waste program, her on-going book project, Nuclear Remains interrogates the translations of the so-called ‘responsibility of the present generations towards future generations’ into techno-scientific, financial, and political mechanisms of containment. The book offers an inquiry into the formulation and the career of several of those mechanisms over decades. In this talk, she questions: How were those responsibilities valued? Based on which political and moral reasoning? In consideration of which temporal horizons?
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Speaker
Dr Basak Sarac - Lesavre
Role: Speaker
Organisation: University of Manchester
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