Umykająca radioaktywność. O skażonych ekosystemach i naukowych, splątanych opowieściach
Elusive Radioactivity: On Contaminated Ecosystems and Scientific, Tangled Stories

Summary/Abstract: This article is a personal reflection on how to practice the humanities in times of disaster. The au-thor starts from the bodily experience of being in the contamination zone around the Fukushima power plant and a certain epistemological confusion while following the scientific debate on the impact of radioactivity on flora and fauna in the exclusion zones around the Chernobyl and Fuku-shima Daiichi power plants. She posits that radioactive contamination affects not only ecosystems and human bodies, but ways of doing research and thinking about human-environment relation-ships. She uses Anna L. Tsing’s theory of scalability to explore alternatives to hegemonic stories of the interspecies world.

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