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A new biocitizen : reclaiming agency through radioactive narratives

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    Creator (cre): Monsey, Lily Michelle
    Advisor (adv): Pribilsky, Jason
    Department (dpt): Whitman College. Anthropology Department
    Date
    May 10, 2017
    Graduation Year
    2017
    Abstract

    This thesis deals with the human and creative dimensions of living in proximity to radiation from nuclear production facilities. The effects of radiation exposure are complex, ambiguous, and unquantifiable. I use anthropological theory on illness narratives and embodiment to argue that through creative writing, people living "downwind" of such production zones are defining a new kind of biological citizenship focused on facets of personal and communal experience. This emerging and collective identity connects writers across national boundaries through their unique portrayals of the body, disease, and recognition that they must define for themselves a level of personal truth that remains unacknowledged by dominant political and scientific discourse.

    Subject
    Narratives
    Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chernobyl’ (Ukraine), 1986
    Manhattan Project (U.S.)
    Radiation Exposure
    Radiation -- Health aspects
    Nuclear facilities
    Creative ability
    Radio Fallout -- Adverse effects
    Hazardous waste sites -- Downwinders
    Social sciences
    Academic theses
    Whitman College 2017 -- Dissertation collection -- Anthropology Department
    Geographic Subject
    Europe
    Ukraine
    Chornobylʹ (Ukraine)
    United States
    Washington (State)
    Hanford (Wash.)
    Nevada
    Nye County (Nev.)
    Nevada Test Site (Nev.)
    Genre
    Theses
    Extent
    66 pages
    Permanent URL
    http://works.whitman.edu/072720171393
    Rights
    http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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