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  Nuclear Geography

Dr Becky Alexis-Martin

Nuclear Geographies: from computational to ethnographic
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Selected Writing

  • Alexis-Martin, B. (August 11, 2022) Our Friend the Atom. REAL LIFE. 
  • ​​Alexis-Martin, B. (July 24, 2022) Disabled academics need more protection against biased hiring. Times Higher Education.
  • Alexis-Martin, B. (October 27, 2020) Nuclear-armed states are on the wrong side of history. The Independent.
  • ​​Alexis-Martin, B. (September 12, 2020) Trump’s nomination makes a mockery of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Independent.
  • ​​Alexis-Martin, B. (August 26 2020) The story of women scarred in Hiroshima reminds us the threat of nuclear war has never gone away. The Independent.
  • Alexis-Martin, B. (June 13, 2020) The devastating atomic history of Christmas Island. The Independent.
  • Alexis-Martin, B. (June 2, 2020) Trump is looking to restart nuclear tests for the first time in 28 years, and we should all be worried. The Independent.
  • Alexis-Martin, B., Dyke, J., Malin, S., Turnbull, J. (August 13, 2019) How to save a sinking island nation. BBC Future
  • ​​Alexis-Martin, B. (September 14, 2018 ) Terrorism has a hidden health legacy – as 9/11 shows. The Conversation
  • Alexis-Martin, B., Malin, S., Iversen, K., Sullivan, K., Blell, M. (September 15, 2017) In the shadow of Fat Man and Little Boy: how the stigma of nuclear war was unravelled. The Guardian
  • Alexis-Martin, B. (August 6, 2017) Life after the bomb: exploring the psychogeography of Hiroshima. The Guardian
  • Alexis-Martin, B. (February 8, 2017) Architecture of the apocalypse: is it time to bring back nuclear bunkers? The Conversation
  • Alexis-Martin, B. & Davis, T. (December 16, 2016) If nuclear war broke out where's the safest place on Earth? The Guardian
  • Alexis-Martin, B. (December 9, 2016) The Anthropocene is a nuclear epoch – so how can we survive it? The Independent
  • Alexis-Martin, B. (November 23, 2016) Japan earthquake: social aftershocks of Fukushima disaster are still being felt. The Conversation
  • Alexis-Martin, B. (October 31, 2016) Colorado’s survivalists hunker down for the election – and the apocalypse. The Conversation

Selected Peer-Reviewed Work

  • Donaldson, B; Tiemory, E; Minor, E.; Alexis-Martin, B. 2022. Impacts from the British Nuclear Tests in Kiribati. United Nations Association Report for the First Meeting of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, United Nations. Vienna. 20-23 June 2022.
  • ​Alexis-Martin, B., 2022. Nuclear Mobilities. In: The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities. Eds. Adey et al.
  • Alexis-Martin, B., 2022. Book review: The State of a Nuclear State: A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado. Cultural Geographies, 29(2), pp.329-330.
  • Bowman, B., Bell, K. and Alexis-Martin, B., 2021. Youth, Climate and Environmentalism. In Diversity and Inclusion in Environmentalism (pp. 132-147). Routledge.
  • Alexis‐Martin, B., Turnbull, J., Bennett, L., Bolton, M., Davies, T., Dunlop, G., ... & Ross, L. 2021. Nuclear geographies and nuclear issues. International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology.
  • Alexis‐Martin, B., Bolton, MB., Hawkins, D., Tisch, S., Mangioni, TL. 2021. Addressing the Humanitarian and Environmental Consequences of Atmospheric Nuclear Weapon Tests: A Case Study of UK and US Test Programs at Kiritimati (Christmas) and Malden Islands, Republic of Kiribati. Global Policy, 12(1), 106-21.
  • Alexis-Martin, B. 2020. Nuclear warfare and weather (im) mobilities. In Weather: Spaces, Mobilities and Affects (eds. Barry, Borovnik, Edensor). Routledge.
  • Alexis-Martin, B. 2020. Sensing the deathscape: Digital media and death during COVID-19. Journal of Environmental Media, 1(1), 11.1–11.8
  • Alexis-Martin, B. 2020. Untangling Uranium. The Extractive Industries and Society, 7(2), 517-19
  • Alexis-Martin, B., Perriman, W., Alexander, S. 2020. Nuclear Nomadologies: Curating an Inclusive Social History of the British Nuclear Test Veterans. Social History in Museums, 44(1), 53-60.
  • Alexis-Martin, B. 2019. Geographies of nuclear warfare: future spaces, zones and technologies. In: A Research Agenda for Military Geographies. Edward Elgar Publishing. (Book Chapter)
  • Alexis-Martin, B., Sandys, K., Mulvihill, M. 2019. ‘Mine are the Dead Spaces': A Discussion of Bunker Work’s Atmospheres, Limits and Routines. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 13(1), 1-21.
  • Alexis-Martin, B. 2019. The nuclear imperialism-necropolitics nexus: contextualizing Chinese-Uyghur oppression in our nuclear age. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 60(2), 1-25.
  • Alexis-Martin et al. 2019. Nuclear Families: A social study of nuclear test veteran families. NCCF
  • Malin, S. and Alexis-Martin, B. 2019. Embedding the atom: Pro-neoliberal activism, Polanyi, and sites of acceptance in American uranium communities. EXIS. ​
  • Alexis-Martin, B., 2018. Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches. Cultural Sociology.
  • Alexis-Martin, B., 2017. Radiation brain moms and citizen scientists: the gender politics of food contamination after Fukushima. Gender, Place and Culture.
  • Alexis-Martin, B., and Davies, T., 2017. Towards Nuclear Geography: Zones, Bodies and Communities. Geography Compass.
  • Alexis-Martin, B., 2017. An Unnatural Environmental History of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Environment & Society, Summer, no. 21. Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society.
  • Alexis-Martin, B., 2016. It was a Blast!'—Camp Life on Christmas Island, 1956–1958. Environment & Society, Autumn, no. 19. Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society.
  • Alexis-Martin, B., 2015. The Chernobyl necklace: the psychosocial experiences of female radiation emergency survivors. BELGEO, 1, pp.1-10. 
Contact: beckyalexismartin@gmail.com
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