Nuclear Testing in French Polynesia: After Fifty Years of Lies…

« previous article | next article »

DC Field	Value
dc.identifier	ECF_article_15434
dc.title	Nuclear Testing in French Polynesia: After Fifty Years of Lies and State Secrets. How to Calm Our Anger and Rebuild Ourselves
dc.contributor.author	Spitz Chantal
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/the-venice-journal-of-environmental-humanities/2023/2/nuclear-testing-in-french-polynesia-after-fifty-ye/
dc.description.abstract	The essay discusses, from an Indigenous perspective, the French nuclear weapon tests in the southern Pacific islands. It presents a vivid scenario of the detrimental effects and social inequalities produced by the dynamic of ‘industrialization without industry’ brought about by militarisation and extraction.
dc.relation.ispartof	Lagoonscapes
dc.relation.ispartof	Swimming Against the Tide
dc.issued	2023-12-20
dc.dateAccepted	2023-11-22
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-09-28
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-2709
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2023/02/006
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	French Polynesia
dc.subject	Militarisation
dc.subject	Nuclear testing
dc.subject	Pacific islands

Research Article
open access peer reviewed

Nuclear Testing in French Polynesia: After Fifty Years of Lies and State Secrets

How to Calm Our Anger and Rebuild Ourselves

Chantal Spitz Tahitian author

VIEW PDF DOWNLOAD PDF

abstract

The essay discusses, from an Indigenous perspective, the French nuclear weapon tests in the southern Pacific islands. It presents a vivid scenario of the detrimental effects and social inequalities produced by the dynamic of ‘industrialization without industry’ brought about by militarisation and extraction.

Published

Dec. 20, 2023

Accepted

Nov. 22, 2023

Submitted

Sept. 28, 2023

Language

Keywords: Nuclear testing • French Polynesia • Militarisation • Pacific islands

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2023/02/006

Copyright: © 2023 Chantal Spitz. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

References to this chapter

How to cite