This thesis comprises a novel and poetics exploring how creative writing practice can be influenced by engaging in psychogeographic studies of landscapes containing nuclear power stations. The focus of this research is the Exclusion Zone surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power S…
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This thesis explores the psychological trauma of the survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which occurred on April 26, 1986. I argue for the emergence from the disaster of three Chernobyl traumas, each of which will be analysed individually – one per chapter. In reading t…
This dissertation examines the accretive violence wrought by nuclear power on bodies and spaces through a study of Chernobyl’s transnational memory. By examining this infamous disaster, I clarify the process by which power renders those impacts invisible, as well as the ways in …