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Author Hecht, Gabrielle, author.

Title Being nuclear : Africans and the global uranium trade / Gabrielle Hecht
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 451 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction : the power of nuclear things. Proliferating markets -- Imperial projections and market devices -- Colonial enrichment -- The price of sovereignty -- In the shadows of the market -- Nuclear work. A history of invisibility -- Nuclearity at work -- Invisible exposures -- Hopes for the irradiated body -- Conclusion : uranium in Africa
Summary The hidden history of African uranium and what it means--for a state, an object, an industry, a workplace--to be "nuclear."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-451) and index
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Subject Uranium industry -- Africa
Uranium industry -- Political aspects -- Africa
Uranium mines and mining -- Africa
Nuclear energy -- Africa
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs.
HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
Nuclear energy
Uranium industry
Uranium industry -- Political aspects
Uranium mines and mining
Uranbergbau
Uranhandel
Africa
Afrika
Form Electronic book
ISBN 026230144X
9780262301442
128049896X
9781280498961