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Gabrielle Hecht
Researcher at University of Michigan
Publications - 34
Citations - 1426
Gabrielle Hecht is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & National identity. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 32 publications receiving 1276 citations. Previous affiliations of Gabrielle Hecht include Stanford University.
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The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II
TL;DR: The Radiance of France as discussed by the authors explores the role of technology in the construction of national identities in the development of nuclear power in the French nuclear program, and proposes the concept of technopolitical regime as a way to analyze the social, political, cultural, and technological dynamics among engineering elites, unionized workers, and rural communities.
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Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
TL;DR: Gabrielle Hecht as discussed by the authors put Africa in the nuclear world, and the nuclear worlds in Africa, focusing on miners and the occupational hazard of radiation exposure, and showed that questions about being nuclear lie at the heart of today's global nuclear order and the relationships between developing nations and nuclear powers.
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Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how Cold War politics, imperialism, and postcolonial nation building became entangled in technologies and consider the legacies of those entanglements for today's globalized world.
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Interscalar Vehicles for an African Anthropocene: On Waste, Temporality, and Violence
TL;DR: In this paper, the creation and destruction of value/waste and pasts/futures around a uranium mine in Mounana, Gabon, is discussed to unpack the political, ethical, epistemological, and affective dimensions of interscalar vehicles and their violent Anthropocenic implications.
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Rupture-Talk in the Nuclear Age: Conjugating Colonial Power in Africa
TL;DR: The authors explored two places usually left off nuclear maps: Madagascar and Gabon, where the French mined and processed uranium ore, starting in the 1950s, and found that sociotechnical practices at each site both belied and performed claims to rupture for Malagasy and Gabonese mineworkers.