Visuality in Nuclear Engineering

I research how film and media participate in juridical regimes stemming from the ocean space. In my doctoral thesis I analyze how the ongoing aestheticizing of the representation of the underwater nuclear weapon explosions not only invisibilizes the Indigenous experiences, but also how such visual regime is at odds with the urgencies of paradigmatic shifts needed in the attempts to work towards a different planetary juridical system. I engage with discussions on role of visuality in relation to urgencies of transition from Environmental Law to Ecological Law. I trace genealogies of conceptualizing post-World War II world order in relation to ontological structure of imaginaries that emerged together with practices of nuclear so-called tests.

Faculty Supervisor:

Masha Salazkina

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Partner:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

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