Main entry:

Henni, Samia, 1980- author.

Title & Author:

Colonial toxicity : rehearsing French radioactive architecture and landscape in the Sahara / Samia Henni.

Publication:

Zurich : Edition Fink, [2024]
©2024

Description:

591 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
This publication is the result of Samia Henni's long-term research into French colonial violence in Algerian Sahara, and has been produced within the frame of Performing Colonial Toxicity, a two-year commission curated by Megan Hoetger for the If I Can't Dance Edition IX-Bodies and Technologies biennal programme (2022-2023).
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Reggane -- The site -- Construction sites -- Exposed bodies -- Atmospheric bombs -- Contaminated water -- Above ground -- Below ground.
In Ekker -- The mountain -- Firing tunnels -- The base -- Underground bombs -- Uncontained bombs -- Exterminated lives.

Summary:

"Between 1960 and 1966, the French colonial regime detonated four atmospheric atomic bombs, thirteen underground nuclear bombs and conducted other nuclear experiments in the Algerian Sahara, whose natural resources were being extracted in the process. This secret nuclear weapons programme, whose archives are still classified, occurred during and after the Algerian Revolution, or the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62). This publication brings together nearly six hundred pages of materials documenting this violent history of France's nuclear bomb programme in the Algerian desert. Meticulously culled together by the architectural historian from across available, offered, contraband, and leaked sources, the book is a rich repository for all those concerned with histories of nuclear weapons and engaged at the intersections of spatial, social and environmental justice, as well as anticolonial archival practices."--e-flux announcements.

ISBN:

9789492139245 (paperback)
9492139243 (paperback)
9783037462669
3037462663

Subject:

Nuclear weapons Sahara Testing History.
Nuclear weapons France Testing History.
Armes nucléaires Sahara Essais Histoire.
Armes nucléaires France Essais Histoire.
France Algeria Colonies.
France Colonies Algérie.

Added entries:

Hoetger, Megan, organizer.
Framer Framed (Organization), issuing body.
If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Organization), issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319693
Call No.: 319693
Copy: 1
Status: External loan