Title: Photo Album “Pripyat”
Reference: In the Ukrainian and Russian languages. 1976, 1986
Keywords: photography, memory, Pripyat
Abstract:This photo album tells us about one of the youngest cities in Ukraine – Pripyat that was established thanks to the construction of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
URL: http://pripyat-city.ru/books/57-fotoalbom.html
http://pripyat-city.ru/books/174-pripyat-fotoalbom-1976.html
Title: Radiation condition and its social and psychological aspects
Author: V.P.Antonov
Reference: Publication of “Knowledge” Society [общество “Знание”] of the Ukrainian SSR, 1987
Keywords: radiation, social aspect, psychological aspect, liquidation
Abstract: As a result of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant a situation was developed that was unique in its scale and also in its historical experience, to which psychologically unprepared were not only the general public but also many experts, scientists, leaders.
URL: http://pripyat-city.ru/books/102-radiacionnaya-obstanovka.html
Title: Chernobyl Legacy: A Photo Essay
Author: Fusco, P.
Reference: (2006), [Online]
Keywords: Photography
Abstract: Over twenty years have passed since the meltdown at Chernobyl. Paul Fusco faces the dark legacy of the modern technological nightmare that continues to plague those exposed to its destructive radiation.
Title: Many-sided Approach to the Realities of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident. Summing-up of the Consequences of the Accident Twenty Years After
Author: Imanaka, T. (ed.)
Reference: Kyoto: Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, (2008)
Abstract: This is the English version report of the international collaboration, “Multi-side Approach to the Realities of the Chernobyl NPP Accident: Summing-up of the Consequences of the Accident Twenty Years” which was carried out in November 2004 – October 2006 supported by a research grant from the Toyota Foundation. Twenty three articles are included about Chernobyl by authors of various professions.
URL: http://www.rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NSRG/reports/kr139/KURRI-KR-139.htm
Title: Chernobyl’s Sixth Sense: The Symbolism of an Ever-Present Awareness
Author: Sarah D. Phillips
Reference: Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 29, Issue 2, pages 159–185, December 2004
doi: 10.1525/ahu.2004.29.2.159
Keywords: Chernobyl, Ukraine, memory, symbol, museum
Abstract: [This article examines the symbolic life of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. I argue that Chernobyl symbols serve as a set of resources: they produce memory, and they are the grounds for making a new society. My analyses are based on representations of Chernobyl in academic and popular discourse, literature, and museums. Through discussions of embodiment and collective memory, I argue that Chernobyl has produced a sort of sixth sense or “awareness-plus” among those who share the experience of the disaster.]
URL:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/ahu.2004.29.2.159/abstract
Title: Nuclear Bashing in Chernobyl Coverage: Fact or Fiction?
Author: Friedman, Sharon M.; And Others
Reference: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (72nd, Washington, DC, August 10-13, 1989)
Keywords: Broadcast Television, News, Nuclear Energy, Media Coverage, USSR
Abstract: Critics of coverage of nuclear power have charged that the media overemphasize the importance of nuclear accidents, encourage public fear, and omit information vital to public understanding of nuclear power and risk. Some also feel there is an anti-nuclear bias among reporters and editors. A study was conducted to determine if such charges were supported in the first two weeks of coverage of the Chernobyl accident. Coverage was analyzed in the “New York Times,” the “Washington Post,” the “Philadelphia Inquirer,” the “Wall Street Journal,” the Allentown (Pennsylvania) “Morning Call,” and on the evening newscasts of CBS, NBC, and ABC. Findings showed that (1) despite heavy coverage of the accident, no more than 25% of any newspaper’s or network’s coverage–often far less–was devoted to information on safety records, history of accidents, and current status of nuclear industries in various countries; (2) even though such information would be background information for a breaking news event, not enough was provided to improve the public’s level of understanding of nuclear power or put the Chernobyl accident in context; and (3) articles and newscasts balanced use of pro- and anti-nuclear statements, and did not include excessive amounts of fear-inducing and negative information, indicating that these newspapers and networks did not take advantage of the accident to attack or “bash” the nuclear industry or nuclear power in general. (Four tables of data and 20 notes are included.)
Title: Uncomfortable Heritage & Dark Tourism at Chernobyl
Author: Jose Ramon Perez
Reference: A Reader in Uncomfortable Heritage and Dark Tourism., Edited by Sam Merrill and Leo Schmidt, Department of Architectural Conservation at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, 2008-2009
Keywords: memory, essay
Abstract: [Between October 2008 and March 2009 the Department of Architectural Conservation at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, hosted a study project entitled “Dark Tourism and Uncomfortable Heritage”. It aimed to build on the recent development of the sub-discipline of Dark Tourism Studies and extend the growing and current emphasis of uncomfortable, difficult or sensitive heritage sites within the discipline of Heritage Studies. …From the essay: ‘The first time I ever heard the name Chernobyl I was 14 years old. As a boy growing up in Mexico, I never heard much of the news from the USSR, let alone Ukraine. It was in a short verse by one of my favorite singer-songwriters. He wrote “dark like the sky of Chernobyl”, among two dozen other verses, making grim comparisons to an out-of-love situation. Doing some research, I learned that the event at Chernobyl had been a terrible explosion in a nuclear power station, with widespread, long-lasting and most appalling consequences…’]
URL: http://www.urbain-trop-urbain.fr/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/UHDT_Reader-allege.pdf#page=32
Title: Chernobyl Forever
Author: Sarah Phillips
Reference: Somatosphere,
Keywords: Chernobyl, Fukushima, 25th anniversary (Chernobyl accident), Anthropological Shock
Abstract: On March 11, 2011 came the horrific earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and the escalating crisis at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. As the Fukushima accident unfolded and the extent of radioactive contamination was revealed (?!), the world wondered: Is this another Chernobyl? A month after the earthquake the Japanese government classified the accident as a Category 7 disaster, the same as Chernobyl. No doubt comparisons with Chernobyl will be elaborated, negotiated, challenged, and rejected as the situation develops at Fukushima Daiichi. For now, the renewed awareness of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident–which coincides with the event’s 25th “anniversary”–provides an opportunity to ponder the multiple kinds of fallout the disaster produced: health, environmental, social, cultural, and political.
URL: http://somatosphere.net/test/2011/04/chernobyl-forever.html
Title: A semiotic analysis of the newspaper coverage of Chernobyl in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Finland
Author: REBECCA KAUFMANN / HENRI BROMS
Reference: Semiotica. Volume 70, Issue 1-2, Pages 27–48, October 2009
doi: 10.1515/semi.1988.70.1-2.27
Keywords: news, media coverage, U.S.A, Soviet Union, Finland
Abstract: As a disaster, Chernobyl invaded the minds of the world’s citizens unlike any other. More than a volcano, a stock market crash, or a student riot, Chernobyl received news coverage second only to that received by out and out war. As the co-Director of the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media adduced: Ά nuclear accident is … a unique news event. Nothing else, short of a nuclear war, resembles it’. The American, Soviet, and Finnish press approached the uniqueness of the Chernobyl disaster in very different ways. While the American and Soviet news coverage lost perspective of what was truly at issue — a tragic nuclear accident — the Finnish news coverage threw few stones and tried to report the facts.
URL:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/semi.1988.70.issue-1-2/semi.1988.70.1-2.27/semi.1988.70.1-2.27.xml
Title: Overexposure: the Chernobyl photographs of David McMillan
Author: Anne Marie Todkill
Reference: CMAJ May 29, 2001 vol. 164 no. 11 1604-1605
Keywords: photography, memory, Canada, museum
Abstract: Winnipeg photographer David McMillan has visited the Chernobyl evacuation zone six times since 1994, recording the solitary decay of this modern Pompeii in a series of images that now form part of the permanent collection of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa.