University Showcase 7/21 8a: On this episode we talk with Lucie Genay, author of published by University of New Mexico Press. The title is a reference to photographer and artist , whose relatives lived near Hiroshima. His work chronicled the ongoing after-effects of nuclear testing, mining and development in New Mexico.
Genay came to the University of New Mexico as a visiting graduate student and began researching the Manhattan Project. She quickly realized that the bulk of narratives focused on the scientists who came to New Mexico, rather than New Mexicans themselves and their experiences with the creation of the bomb and the ensuing buildup of the nuclear industry here. She also saw the vast income disparities despite the wealth brought to the state through the industry.
Genay is an associate professor of civilization at the Universit茅 de Limoges in France. Her most recent book is also from UNM Press.
This week marks the 78th anniversary of the world's first nuclear explosion with the Trinity Test in Southern New Mexico. A focused on the physicist who led the effort to develop the bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, also opens nationwide this week.
ADDITIONAL READING:
- by Tracy Boyle
- by V.B. Price
- by Joseph Masco
- by Jennifer Brodie
- by Myrriah Gomez
