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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Aligning herself with the most vulnerable, and armed with a sharp stylus, Shampa Biswas deftly dissects the sprawling corpus of the global nuclear order. Focusing her analysis on the sinews of the nuclear non-proliferation regime, she tracks and traces the modalities through which ideological allure and enforced abstinence, sanitized events and horrifying accidents, faith in deterrence and flows of deathly waste, commodity fetishism and enlightenment technologies of rule, expensive state security and opaque political economy come together to power this colonial regime. Nuclear Desire offers profound and provocative insights into the hierarchical structuring and colonial governance of contemporary global orders."—Himadeep Muppidi, Vassar College
"Nuclear Desire moves us to rethink the route to a nuclear-free world as one that must center reasons of peace and social justice. Shampa Biswas moves beyond well-rehearsed critiques—indeed, beyond critique itself—to give us new insights into how a more secure world might simultaneously be more peaceful and just."—J. Marshall Beier, McMaster University
"This book is a heartfully rendered, powerfully argued, and intricately crafted deconstruction of the global nuclear order."—Perspectives on Politics
"Nuclear Desire is one of the most comprehensive applications of a critical methodology to the topic of nuclear weapons, and a welcome contribution to the growing field of critical nuclear studies from a postcolonial perspective." —Nonproliferation Review
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Use and Waste in the Global Nuclear Order
1. Intentions and Effects: The Proliferation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
2. Whose Nuclear Order? A Postcolonial Critique of an Enlightenment Project
3. Unusable, Dangerous, and Desirable: Nuclear Weapons as Fetish Commodities
4. Costly Weapons: The Political Economy of Nuclear Power
Conclusion. Decolonizing the Nuclear World: Can the Subaltern Speak?
Appendix: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
Notes
Bibliography
Index
