The Nuclear, Humanities, and Social Science Nexus: Challenges and Opportunities for Speaking Across the Disciplinary Divides

Verma, Aditi

doi:10.1080/00295450.2021.1941663

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“…However, initial results (1006 courses for Fall 2020) did not comprehensively encompass design pedagogy at MIT. Recognizing the importance of design and critique as part of a reflective design practice (Verma, 2021b;Bardzell, 2010), we were interested in identifying not only design courses but also courses which taught the students to think critically of design. In our analysis, we refer to these as "critique" courses.…”

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Design process of live-action video instructions

Eriksson,

Skagert,

Ekwall

2023

Expanding the Frontiers of Design

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Design process of live-action video instructions

Eriksson,

Skagert,

Ekwall

2023

Expanding the Frontiers of Design

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“…The participatory nature of the Canadian nuclear waste siting process exists within the broader context of decades of injustice, mistreatment, and distrust across the nuclear industry (Verma and Djokic ́, 2021). Relative to its US neighbors caught in a political stalemate of nuclear waste management with no final disposal for nuclear waste, the Canadian process is held in high regard by nuclear industry and policy-makers due to its participatory process.…”

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The epistemic tensions of nuclear waste siting in a nuclear landscape

Bell

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Canada's siting process for spent nuclear fuel, led by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), is frequently held within nuclear industry spheres as an exemplary siting process, designed to be inclusive, participatory, and “community-driven.” Drawing from ethnographic observations of the process as it unfolded in Southern Ontario, Canada, this paper focuses on the epistemic issues of how diverse knowledges are treated in the process, whose knowledge is valued, how such knowledges are understood, and whose knowledges are excluded. In particular, I make sense of how epistemic tensions in the process are produced by being situated within a nuclear landscape, informed by local nuclear-dominant socio-technical relations and epistemic regimes, which exceptionalize pro-nuclear Western scientific knowledges. This socio-technical constellation, I suggest, leads to careful but sometimes paradoxical negotiations of the expert/lay divide that subsequently reveals cracks in the policy foundation for inclusion of diverse forms of knowledge. While the NWMO policy framework discursively values diverse knowledges, critical lay community knowledges are often delegitimized and dismissed. Similarly, there are scalar issues in the ways Indigenous knowledges are homogenized and devalued through discursive separation. These epistemic tensions, between how knowledges should be treated in policy, and how knowledges are actually treated in practice, demonstrate clear issues of recognition justice, participatory fairness, and inclusion of diverse knowledges. The implications of this work shed light on understanding the complexities of landscape-based knowledge politics and how they might inform siting practices and technological decision-making more broadly.

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2024

SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology

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The Nuclear, Humanities, and Social Science Nexus: Challenges and Opportunities for Speaking Across the Disciplinary Divides

Cited by 7 publications

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Design process of live-action video instructions

Design process of live-action video instructions

The epistemic tensions of nuclear waste siting in a nuclear landscape

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