Doctoral Dissertation Research: Project Plowshare and the Politics of Geographic Engineering

博士论文研究：犁头计划与地理工程政治

• 批准号: 9628292
• 负责人: Donald Mitchell
• 金额: $ 0.48万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-05-15 至 1997-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9628292&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Project; Plowshare

Kirsch, Scott U. of Colorado, Boulder From 1957 to 1973, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) pursued the `peaceful use of nuclear explosives` through Project Plowshare. Nuclear excavation, the detonation of strategically buried hydrogen bombs for massive earthmoving, was considered the most promising of the Plowshare applications. The purpose of the research is to investigate the collisions of science, ideology and politics which ultimately kept Plowshare designs out of the landscape. Primary research will emphasize AEC-related archival materials which document Plowshare's scientific and promotional aims, as well as, the public discourse through which scientific and political debates over Plowshare were voiced. The research will argue that to understand processes through which landscapes are made, we must utilize the imagined landscapes which fail to take form. The work incorporates contemporary theories of landscape production to untangle the complex relations between the accumulation of scientific knowledge and the production of space.

Kirsch，Scott U.来自科罗拉多，博尔德 从1957年到1973年，美国原子能委员会（AEC）通过犁铧计划（Project Plowshare）追求“和平利用核爆炸”。 核挖掘，即引爆战略上埋在地下的氢弹进行大规模的土方工程，被认为是犁铧最有前途的应用。 研究的目的是调查科学，意识形态和政治的冲突，最终使犁铧设计的景观。 主要研究将强调AEC相关的档案材料，这些材料记录了犁铧的科学和推广目标，以及公众话语，通过这些话语，人们对犁铧进行了科学和政治辩论。 这项研究将认为，要理解景观形成的过程，我们必须利用想象中的景观，而这些景观并没有形成。 该作品融合了当代景观生产理论，以解开科学知识积累与空间生产之间的复杂关系。