The "Nuclear Borderlands" alters the meaning of 'ethnography' in a
way that will challenge all of us in anthropology. It will
certainly take its place among the classic texts assessing the
cultural politics of the bomb, and it will join the must-read ranks
in the literature on American nationalism and nation-making in the
late twentieth century."--Susan Harding, University of California,
Santa Cruz, author of "The Book of Jerry Falwell" and "Remaking
Ibieca"
"No account of the post Cold War environment can afford to
ignore this study and the tangle of economic, political, and
cultural rights, interests, and imperatives it maps. Joe Masco
pushes the ethnographic agenda firmly forward into an ambivalent
twenty-first century, where Los Alamos is both dangerous polluter
and lifeline employer, where rival eco-cultures, ethnicities, and
social hierarchies fight over control of nature, and where the
technological future can exacerbate or redeem the nuclear past.
Neither antinuclear environmentalists, nor Native Americans, nor
Nuevomexicanos, nor the Los Alamos scientists, nor the Washington
politicians have a monopoly on the answers, and Masco shows us
why."--Michael M. J. Fischer, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, author of "Emergent Forms of Life and the
Anthropological Voice"
"Joseph Masco's argument that nuclear weapons are no longer a
technology subject to scientific challenge but rather exist
primarily as powerful cultural constructs takes us a long way
toward understanding post-Cold War continuities in U.S. security
strategies, as well as some of the astounding aspects of American
exceptionalism in international politics."--John Borneman,
Princeton University
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