The Meanings of a Disaster : : Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France / / Karena Kalmbach.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Kalmbach, Karena,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1 1986–1988 Direct Reactions and Early Narratives --; CHAPTER 2 1989–2005 Chernobyl Memory in the Making --; CHAPTER 3 2006 Th e Chernobyl ‘Renaissance’ within the ‘Nuclear Renaissance’ --; Conclusion --; Epilogue --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789207033; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789207033?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Karena Kalmbach.

The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was an event of obviously transnational significance—not only in the airborne particulates it deposited across the Northern hemisphere, but in the political and social repercussions it set off well beyond the Soviet bloc. Focusing on the cases of Great Britain and France, this innovative study explores the discourses and narratives that arose in the wake of the incident among both state and nonstate actors. It gives a thorough account of the stereotypes, framings, and “othering” strategies that shaped Western European nations’ responses to the disaster, and of their efforts to come to terms with its long-term consequences up to the present day.