Value Awarded: £9,560.80 -with co PI Catherine Eschle Strathclyde Universityn SRG24\241700
The Contested Afterlives of Nuclear Bases
University of Strathclyde
This project enquires into the complex, contested legacies of nuclear bases once they have been dismantled. Building on a wide range of literature on everyday encounters with military and nuclear sites and what they leave behind, the project will compare the sites of past US nuclear submarine facilities at La Maddalena in Sardinia, Italy, and Holy Loch in Scotland, UK. We will use archival, oral history and walking methodologies to investigate the interplay of the remains of military infrastructure with landscape, community relationships and cultural memory. The project will draw out the implications of these two cases for wider understandings of how militarism and nuclear policy are sustained in the everyday - and how they might be undone.