Blog Prompts for Nuclear Futures Course, due by February 12 (Group A)

Choose one of the following options:

1. What do you see as the most significant contributions and/or interventions the environmental humanities can make to address environmental issues? Please base your response on the course readings for weeks two and three.
2.  In what ways are precarity, violence, and environmental degradation intertwined? Your answer should focus on readings assigned for the third week.
3.  Rob Nixon’s influential coinage “slow violence” addresses what he describes as the “representational challenge” posed by environmental devastation: “how to devise arresting stories, images, and symbols adequate to the pervasive but elusive violence of delayed effects” (3). How does the film Little Voices of Fukushima respond to this representational challenge? How do Nixon’s assertions connect with and illuminate the film’s depiction of nuclear futures?