Atomizing a nation: nuclear energy within the Indian nation discourse

This article intends to highlight the political and intellectual implications of nuclear energy in India beyond “traditional” security  approaches. It elicits the process whereby local postcolonial elites felt identified and characterized scientific and technological research as a tool for boost...

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Autores principales: González Castañeda, Mario, Bavoleo, Bárbara
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Lenguaje:Español
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Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2014
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Nation; Imperialism; Modernity; Nuclear Energy; Science; Secularism
Nación; imperialismo; modernidad; energía nuclear; ciencia; secularismo
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/memoysociedad/article/view/8264
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-019&d=article8264oai
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topic Nation; Imperialism; Modernity; Nuclear Energy; Science; Secularism
Nación; imperialismo; modernidad; energía nuclear; ciencia; secularismo
spellingShingle Nation; Imperialism; Modernity; Nuclear Energy; Science; Secularism
Nación; imperialismo; modernidad; energía nuclear; ciencia; secularismo
González Castañeda, Mario
Bavoleo, Bárbara
Atomizing a nation: nuclear energy within the Indian nation discourse
topic_facet Nation; Imperialism; Modernity; Nuclear Energy; Science; Secularism
Nación; imperialismo; modernidad; energía nuclear; ciencia; secularismo
description This article intends to highlight the political and intellectual implications of nuclear energy in India beyond “traditional” security  approaches. It elicits the process whereby local postcolonial elites felt identified and characterized scientific and technological research as a tool for boosting “progress” and national development. That explains why nuclear energy came to represent not only the most evident expression of “European modernity”, but also a mechanism capable of producing secular knowledge, and thence, a modern space. Through the analysis of the personal files of Jawaharlal Nehru and Homi J. Bhab – “fathers” of the Indian nuclear program – and a critical dialogue with earlier literature on the subject, it is argued that nuclear energy produced a semantic field in the discursive space of the nation, which development and refinement acquired the condition sine qua non to achieve “European modernity”.
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Bavoleo, Bárbara
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title Atomizing a nation: nuclear energy within the Indian nation discourse
title_short Atomizing a nation: nuclear energy within the Indian nation discourse
title_full Atomizing a nation: nuclear energy within the Indian nation discourse
title_fullStr Atomizing a nation: nuclear energy within the Indian nation discourse
title_full_unstemmed Atomizing a nation: nuclear energy within the Indian nation discourse
title_sort atomizing a nation: nuclear energy within the indian nation discourse
publisher Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
publishDate 2014
url http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/memoysociedad/article/view/8264
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