ESHS/HSS Annual Meeting

Global fallout and the local

• In Event: Nuclear History as Global History: Current Debates and New Perspectives 3

English Abstract

The call of the 2010s to move our historiographical attention to international or transnational organizations, actors, and regulations served as a useful corrective to the overabundance of local studies at the time. As the organizers remind us in their CfP, such investigations were inspired by postcolonial studies, environmental history or science diplomacy, and international relations debates. Many scholars working on the nuclear world have taken up these challenges. Against this backdrop, in my paper I would like to highlight the continuing importance of local studies in elucidating global movements and in re-articulating the “local” and the “global” in the context of the construction of global fallout and its scientific, diplomatic, and policy impacts.

Author

• Soraya de Chadarevian, University of California, Los Angeles