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Hi, This is a bit of a half response but I remember Nicholas Entrikin delivering an excellent paper at the launch of the journal Ecumene (now Cultural Geography) at the IBG annual conference (as it was then) at Nottingham about 20 years ago. It concerned a US nuclear waste site that was likely to remain hazardous for hundreds of thousands of years. The paper was about how the site could be visually marked as unsafe in a way that would still be comprehensible over this time period when language was likely to have changed to such an extent that would render traditional signage meaningless. It was a fascinating paper but I don't know if it was ever published. If anyone is able to enlighten me I would be interested in reading it. Best wishes Tim -----Original Message----- From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hayden Lorimer Sent: 18 June 2014 10:10 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Query - nuclear geographies Hi there, Another recommendation: Tim Dee (2013) Four Fields (Jonathan Cape) Section entitled 'Swallow' p. 180-213 Just the fiercest writing. Best, Hayden ________________________________________ From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Angela Last [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 10:00 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Query - nuclear geographies Hi Andy, I am finding the literature around nuclear testing very interesting. Maybe not 'key literature', but certainly very thought provoking in terms of 'nuclear colonisation' and 'nuclear nomads'. There is also quite a bit of poetry around nuclear landscapes, e.g. from poets in the Pacific. Two discussions that might be useful & accessible: Elizabeth DeLoughrey (2008) Solar Metaphors: 'No Ordinary Sun'. ka mate ka ora: a new zealand journal of poetry and poetics. Issue 6. pp 51-59 Jeffrey Sasha Davis (2005) Representing Place: 'Deserted Isles' and the Reproduction of Bikini Atoll. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95:3, pp 607-625. Also some exhibitions on nuclear landscapes have material online e.g. http://nucleardilemma.org/en/exhibition You probably know the film 'Into Eternity' about nuclear waste storage (using the example of Finland) & the creation of 'warning landscapes'? Best, Angela University of Winchester, a private charitable company limited by guarantee in England and Wales number 5969256. Registered Office: Sparkford Road, Winchester, Hampshire SO22 4NR