Nuclear Remains: On Temporalities, Responsibilities, and Values
暫譯: 核廢料：關於時間性、責任與價值的探討

Contemporary societies are often criticized for their incapacity to account for the long-term. Nuclear Remains asks what happens when a society decides to think long-term--examining the U.S. efforts to hold present and distant futures together.

Focusing on the case of the U.S. nuclear waste program, Başak Saraç-Lesavre argues that no temporal orientation is inherently ethical; what matters is how temporal orientations construed as desirable get translated into action.

To analyze how concerned actors seek to establish "good" relations between past, present, and future, Saraç-Lesavre introduces the problem of rendez-vous framework--tracing how temporal gaps are identified and resolutions formulated and inscribed in different forms of arrangements. Her multi-sited ethnographic research takes readers from Congressional debates over funding--to reconcile accountability to and immunity from politics--to Carlsbad, New Mexico, where local actors have been trying to keep their community attached to nuclear futures.

Over time, these arrangements face tests. They are barely ever considered au rendez-vous when meeting contemporary conditions, yet produce significant effects: material, economic, political, and moral relations, and ultimately, societies themselves. This framework applies broadly to cases where temporal relations are at stake: climate change adaptation, government of commons, pension schemes, energy transition, and care systems.