Autoren:	Schürkmann, Christiane
Titel:	Joining multiple collaborations : toward a sociomaterial perspective on nuclear waste management between society, technology and nature
Online-Publikationsdatum:	30-Nov-2022
Erscheinungsdatum:	2022
Sprache des Dokuments:	Englisch
Zusammenfassung/Abstract:	The article develops a sociomaterial perspective on nuclear waste management by illuminating the role of geological formations and therefore ‘nature’ with respect to site selection procedures. Besides technical barriers (containers) and geotechnical barriers (filling materials), geological formations should serve as ‘natural’ barriers in their function as host rocks in order to isolate radioactive waste for thousands of years. Referring to empirical insights into the German procedure of site selection and ethnographic research on practices in a nuclear chemical laboratory, the contribution illustrates how humans and materials are interwoven in an alliance of multiple sociomaterial collaborations united by the task to isolate a toxic object—here, high-level radioactive waste. In this way, the article sheds light on how nature is addressed not only as a resource for an anthropocentric project but also as an active collaborator in order to master such disposal processes in the long run. Such a sociomaterial perspective aims to enrich sociotechnical considerations by emphasizing the role of nature as an integral part of nuclear waste management and by studying its complexity.
DDC-Sachgruppe:	300 Sozialwissenschaften 300 Social sciences 333.7 Natürliche Ressourcen 333.7 Natural resources
Veröffentlichende Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Organisationseinheit:	FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport
Veröffentlichungsort:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8386
Version:	Published version
Publikationstyp:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Weitere Angaben zur Dokumentart:	Scientific article
Nutzungsrechte:	CC BY
Informationen zu den Nutzungsrechten:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Zeitschrift:	Worldwide waste 5 1
Seitenzahl oder Artikelnummer:	3
Verlag:	Ubiquity Press
Verlagsort:	London
Erscheinungsdatum:	2022
ISSN:	2399-7117
DOI der Originalveröffentlichung:	10.5334/wwwj.86
Enthalten in den Sammlungen:	DFG-491381577-G