An Illustrated Guide to the Post-catastrophe Future

Title: An Illustrated Guide to the Post-catastrophe Future

Author: Sarah D. Phillips, Sarah Ostaszewski

Reference: The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol 30, No 1 (2012)

Keywords: Chernobyl, Pripyat, tourism, revitalization, satire, visual anthropology, Ukraine

Abstract: This article is a satirical consideration of real and hypothetical projects to “revitalize” parts of the 30 kilometer zone of alienation around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. This tongue-in-cheek treatment reveals that projects for “redevelopment” and “exploitation” of the contaminated zone are about many things: money, ideology, memory, fantasy, safety, power, ethics, and the value of life itself.

URL: https://www.scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/2005