Half-Lives & Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War (Resident Scholar Series) (School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar Book) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1930618824 ISBN 13: 9781930618824

Publisher: SAR Press, 2007

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Review:

"For decades, the US and Soviet governments went to extraordinary lengths to disempower, marginalize, silence, and deceive the front-line victims of their reckless nuclear programs. These compelling essays--models of engaged anthropological scholarship--not only illuminate the victims' horrendous treatment but give them a voice in a way that broadens all of our understanding and restores to them a measure of their stolen dignity." -- Peter Kuznick

About the Author:

Barbara Rose Johnston is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Political Ecology and winner of the Lourdes Arizpe Award, presented by the American Anthropological Associationas Anthropology & Environment Section, for her outstanding contributions in the application of anthropology to environmental issues and discourse. Among her recent publications are Disappearing Peoples: Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia (ed., with Barbara Brower, 2007); Half Lives & Half Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War (ed., 2007), Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report (with Holly Barker, 2008), and Waging War, Making Peace: Reparations and Human Rights (ed., with Susan Slyomovics, 2008).

About this edition

• Publisher: SAR Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1930618824
• ISBN 13: 9781930618824
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Barbara Rose Johnston