Resisting the Nuclear: Art and Activism Across the Pacific

From uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed Indigenous lands. Sustained exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons and waste affects many communities from Japan to Oceania to the US West. While antinuclear activism often takes political and legal forms, artistic responses to nuclear regimes also prompt social action and resistance.

Resisting the Nuclear is an interdisciplinary edited collection featuring historians, anthropologists, artists, and activists who explore the multifaceted forms of resistance to nuclear regimes. Through a combination of interviews, scholarly essays, and discussions of contemporary art, Resisting the Nuclear provides layered insights into histories of activism and the arts, underscoring different ways in which political and artistic expression can respond to nuclear threats and effect changes. Contributors demonstrate how visual artists have recentered the victims of nuclear technologies, insisting that they be seen and heard. This volume offers new approaches for responding to the problems of nuclear harm that will appeal to those interested in global history, the atomic bomb, photography, art, and activism.