Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Vara, Ana María
Hurtado, Diego
Materias
Idioma
spa
Extent
282 p.
Derechos
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.0 Genérica (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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application/pdf
Identificador
Cobertura
1001160
Buenos Aires (province)
1001169
Córdoba (province)
Abstract
Since Argentina’s return to democracy in 1983, nuclear technology and its development and implementation impact on the environment and public health have been subject to a great deal of criticism. In the context of the reactivation of the Argentinian nuclear programme in 2006, and taking into account the scarcity of studies on the subject, this dissertation seeks to contribute to an understanding of resistance to nuclear technology in this country – a pioneer and leader in nuclear technology in Latin America – by describing and analyzing two representative case studies. The first one focuses on the denunciations on, and mobilizations against the possible contamination of the water supply for the Buenos Aires metropolitan area as a result of the methods for the treatment of radioactive waste implemented at Ezeiza Atomic Centre, a division of the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA). The second one focuses on several protest actions against, debates on, and demands for the relocation of the uranium dioxide production plant Dioxitek, located in a central area of the provincial capital of Córdoba.
Drawing on the contributions from science and technology studies (STS), and on contentious politics and social movement studies, we analyze the political life-cycles of the public controversies that aroused. More specifically, we focus on identifying and characterizing actors involved in resistance, repertoires of collective action used, arguments against nuclear development presented, as well as the consequences and results of both controversies. We pay special attention to the impacts on technological processes, public policies and plans spearheaded by actors who promote nuclear technology, as well as to the recursive impacts on collective claim-making.
Drawing on the contributions from science and technology studies (STS), and on contentious politics and social movement studies, we analyze the political life-cycles of the public controversies that aroused. More specifically, we focus on identifying and characterizing actors involved in resistance, repertoires of collective action used, arguments against nuclear development presented, as well as the consequences and results of both controversies. We pay special attention to the impacts on technological processes, public policies and plans spearheaded by actors who promote nuclear technology, as well as to the recursive impacts on collective claim-making.
Título obtenido
Doctor de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales