The Feminist, Anti-Colonial, Anti-Imperial Nuclear Gathering (FACING nuclear) is a network that convenes a transdisciplinary community of scholars, organizers, community leaders, and practitioners engaged in critical work on nuclear justice. It is grounded in a shared refusal of the distinction between ‘peaceful’ nuclear energy and ‘violent’ nuclear weapons, understanding this divide as constitutive of the relations through which nuclear imperialism is reproduced. These include interlocking infrastructures and colonial arrangements that organize nuclear life.
The network brings participants together to examine how these relations are produced, stabilized, and contested, and to cultivate a community of practice oriented toward tracing and disrupting the uneven distribution of nuclear violence and injury. Rather than advancing a singular agenda, it foregrounds a set of generative questions as points of departure for collective reflection and exchange.
By fostering dialogue across practices and lived experiences, the network critically examines how nuclear life is known, lived, and governed. It also creates space for collaboration and mutual support among participants. Through this collective engagement, FACING Nuclear contributes to expanding critical engagement with nuclear infrastructures and questions of nuclear justice.
Guiding Questions
- What histories, relations, and forms of power shape contemporary nuclear conditions?
- How do temporalities of extraction, contamination, exposure, and remediation shape how nuclear relations are lived, inherited, and contested?
- How are slow, uneven, and often imperceptible dimensions of nuclear violence and injury rendered (in)visible through scientific, legal, and institutional practices, and with what effects?
- How do affective relations shape what becomes perceptible—or remains obscured—within nuclear conditions?
- How are nuclear issues engaged within and against dominant epistemic hierarchies that determine what can be known, valued, and contested?
- How do critical nuclear scholars and practitioners navigate processes of paternalism, gaslighting, and other forms of delegitimization across academic and public spheres?
- How do dominant framings of nuclear problems, and their proposed solutions, reproduce existing relations of power?
- What alternative forms of criticality emerge within and beyond nuclear studies?
- How are nuclear colonialism and other colonial relations co-constituted, and how might these entanglements be traced, contested, or refused?
- What feminist, anti-colonial, and anti-imperial praxis emerges in response to ongoing nuclear conditions?
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