Resisting the Nuclear

Elyssa Faison is L. R. Brammer Jr. Presidential Professor and associate professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan. Alison Fields is Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of the American West and associate professor at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture. Contributors: Melanie Armstrong, Holly Barker, Elyssa Faison, Alison Fields, Peter Goin, Margo Machida, Yuka Tsuchiya Moriguchi, Jennifer Richter, Shinpei Takeda, Seiichirō Takemine, Akiko Takenaka, Naoko Wake, Sherri Wasserman, and Ran Zwigenberg

"[The] important recurrence of the hibakusha (a Japanese term for survivors of the atom-bomb) by contributors is part of a broader privileging of the voice of direct sufferers, survivors and indigenous actors. . . . Resisting the Nuclear effectively enables us to grapple with the complicated devastation of the nuclear, and the diverse and resilient forms of resistance that have emerged in its wake against it. This volume will undoubtedly provoke other scholars, activists, artists and more actors to imagine other anti-nuclear futures, and even, perhaps, to bring them about."

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Naming and Orthography Introduction: Visuality, Temporality, Geography Elyssa Faison and Alison Fields1 Targeting the Pacific: World War II in Asian American and Pacific Islander Art Margo MachidaPART ONE. REMEMBERING ORIGINARY MOMENTS: TRINITY, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI2 Security and Sacrifice: Nuclear Tourism in New Mexico Melanie Armstrong3 A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado: Art and Activism in the Digital Space Melanie Armstrong, Sarah Kanouse, and Shiloh R. Krupar4 Atoms for Life and for Death: Nuclear Energy and Hiroshima Activism in the 1950s Ran Zwigenberg5 The Politics of Antimonumentalism: An Exhibit in Five Cities Shinpei Takeda6 The Antimonument Research Collective Shuhei Matsukubo, Mariko Mikami, Maika Nakao, and Shinpei Takeda7 Creating the Atomic Sublime: The Perpetual Production of Nuclear In/Security Jennifer Richter and Sherri WassermanPART TWO. LEGACIES OF THE BIKINI TEST8 Resisting US Nuclear Tests: The UN Petition from the Marshall Islands Seiichirō Takemine9 Arts Education and the Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall Islands Jasmine alik, Holly Barker, Keyoka Kabua, Ariana Tibon, and Leimamo Wase10 Nuclear Temples Peter Goin11 Housewives Petitioning for World Peace: Ban-the-Bomb Activism in Cold War Japan Akiko Takenaka12 Voices of Deep-Sea Tuna Fishermen in the Japanese Anti–Nuclear Test Movement Yuka Tsuchiya MoriguchiPART THREE. TRANSPACIFIC ACTIVISMS13 A Long Road to Disability Compensation in Cold War America Naoko Wake14 Barbara Reynolds and the Politics of Transnational Antinuclear Activism Elyssa Faison15 An Interview with Artist Will Wilson Alison Fields and Will Wilson16 Food Cultivation as Artistic Activism after Nuclear Disaster Alison FieldsContributors Index