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Vortrag Prof. Magdalena Stawkowski (University of South Carolina): Mutant Biologies: Survival and Health Strategies at Kazakhstan’s Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site

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Wann 30.07.2020
von 18:15 bis 19:45
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The Soviet-era Semipalatinsk nuclear test site situated in contemporary Kazakhstan was an experimental landscape where science, technology, Cold War militarism, and human biology intersected to create lasting effects/legacies. From 1949 to 1989, more than 450 nuclear devices were detonated on the seemingly vast and desolate grasslands, where thousands of people continue to live in rural settlements today. This talk focuses on one such village, Koyan, located on the test site’s western border, where damaged genetics and mutant biologies have acquired both sensational and scientific currency. How do individuals living in ecosystems contaminated with radioactivity perceive its effects on their past, present, and future? Lacking robust economic options, Koyaners claim to be “mutants” adapted to radiation, while outsiders see them as genetically tainted. In this setting, I ask how post-Soviet social, political, and economic transformations operate with radioactivity to co-constitute a “mutant” subjectivity. 

 

Das Kolloquium findet in diesem Semester online über Zoom statt. Interessierte melden sich bitte für aktuelle Informationen, den Zugang zu den Präsentationen und Zoom beim Sekretariat des Lehrstuhls (Frau Kindermann, sekretariat.wsu@geschichte.uni-freiburg.de).

 

Das PDF zum Vortrag finden Sie hier.

 

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