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Keynote Lecture "Memorializing Peace, Wasting Security: Race and Colonialism in Nuclear Storytelling"

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This talk will make a case for ‘contaminating’ the study of international relations by centering ‘waste’ as a central category of analysis. Thinking of waste as “matter out of place,” the talk will suggest that drawing attention to the excess uncontainable other of the categories through which we make sense of international relations makes visible a racialized colonial order, and who and what that order considers disposal. To make that argument, the talk will use the global story of ‘Fat Man’ – the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki – to ask what we can learn about peace, security, and the nuclear order from attending to practices of memorialization at the different nodes of the bomb’s production and use.