TY - JOUR
T1 - The Skyline Is Changing
T2 - Editing Space and Discourse in Nuclear Decommissioning
AU - Kalshoven, Petra Tjitske
PY - 2024/2/1
Y1 - 2024/2/1
N2 - Drawing on 5 years of ethnographic fieldwork at and around the nuclear facilities at Sellafield in Northwest England, I engage with a ubiquitous turn of phrase that describes the material, visually striking reality of a slowly disappearing industrial landscape, while wishing another, morally charged technosocietal reality into existence. “The skyline is changing” is a discursive trope wielded by the Sellafield Limited company and echoed in local media and parlance. It is also a case of visually performative rhetoric that seeks to tame uncertainty by celebrating examples of the nuclear industry’s selective editing of an iconic skyline.
AB - Drawing on 5 years of ethnographic fieldwork at and around the nuclear facilities at Sellafield in Northwest England, I engage with a ubiquitous turn of phrase that describes the material, visually striking reality of a slowly disappearing industrial landscape, while wishing another, morally charged technosocietal reality into existence. “The skyline is changing” is a discursive trope wielded by the Sellafield Limited company and echoed in local media and parlance. It is also a case of visually performative rhetoric that seeks to tame uncertainty by celebrating examples of the nuclear industry’s selective editing of an iconic skyline.
KW - nuclear decommissioning; visual rhetoric
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85183771279&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/57bf75bc-75dd-3dfb-8417-9d73baaeba40/
U2 - 10.1080/08949468.2023.2280426
DO - 10.1080/08949468.2023.2280426
M3 - Article
SN - 0894-9468
VL - 36
SP - 487
EP - 514
JO - Visual Anthropology
JF - Visual Anthropology
IS - 5
ER -