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Acts of Repair

Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina

By: Natasha Zaretsky

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Acts of Repair

Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina

By: Natasha Zaretsky

Acts of Repair explores how ordinary people grapple with decades of political violence and genocide in Argentina—a history that includes the Holocaust, the political repression of the 1976–1983 dictatorship, and the 1994 AMIA bombing. Although the struggle against impunity seems inevitably incomplete, Argentines have created possibilities for repair through cultural memory, yielding spaces for transformation and agency critical to personal and political recovery.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978807449

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Radiation Nation

Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s

By: Natasha Zaretsky

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Radiation Nation

Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s

By: Natasha Zaretsky

On March 28, 1979, the worst nuclear reactor accident in U.S. history occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Central Pennsylvania. Radiation Nation tells the story of what happened that day and in the months and years that followed, as local residents tried to make sense of the emergency. The near-meltdown occurred at a pivotal moment when the New Deal coalition was unraveling, trust in government was eroding, conservatives were consolidating their power, and the political left was becoming marginalized. Using the accident to explore this turning point, Natasha Zaretsky provides a fresh interpretation of the era by disclosing how atomic and ecological imaginaries shaped the conservative ascendancy. Drawing on the testimony of the men and women who lived in the shadow of the reactor, Radiation Nation shows that the region's citizens, especially its mothers, grew convinced that they had sustained radiological injuries that threatened their reproductive futures. Taking inspiration from the antiwar, environmental, and feminist movements, women at Three Mile Island crafted a homegrown ecological politics that wove together concerns over radiological threats to the body, the struggle over abortion and reproductive rights, and eroding trust in authority. This politics was shaped above all by what Zaretsky calls "biotic nationalism," a new body-centered nationalism that imagined the nation as a living, mortal being and portrayed sickened Americans as evidence of betrayal. The first cultural history of the accident, Radiation Nation reveals the surprising ecological dimensions of post-Vietnam conservatism while showing how growing anxieties surrounding bodily illness infused the political realignment of the 1970s in ways that blurred any easy distinction between left and right.

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Columbia University Press

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0231542488

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No Direction Home

The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980

By: Natasha Zaretsky

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No Direction Home

The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980

By: Natasha Zaretsky

Between 1968 and 1980, fears about family deterioration and national decline were ubiquitous in American political culture. In No Direction Home, Natasha Zaretsky shows that these perceptions of decline profoundly shaped one another. Throughout the 1970s, anxieties about the future of the nuclear family collided with anxieties about the direction of the United States in the wake of military defeat in Vietnam and in the midst of economic recession, Zaretsky explains. By exploring such themes as the controversy surrounding prisoners of war in Southeast Asia, the OPEC oil embargo of 1973-74, and debates about cultural narcissism, Zaretsky reveals that the 1970s marked a significant turning point in the history of American nationalism. After Vietnam, a wounded national identity--rooted in a collective sense of injury and fueled by images of family peril--exploded to the surface and helped set the stage for the Reagan Revolution. With an innovative analysis that integrates cultural, intellectual, and political history, No Direction Home explores the fears that not only shaped an earlier era but also have reverberated into our own time.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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Acts of Repair

Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina

By: Natasha Zaretsky

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Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina

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Radiation Nation

Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s

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Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s

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No Direction Home

The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980

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The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980

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