{"pk":43018,"title":"Radiation Songs and Transpacific Resonances of US Imperial Transits","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Abstract\nThis article listens to Marshallese radiation songs to hear how singers subject to US nuclear colonial practices—including US nuclear testing (1946–1958), extant displacement, and human radiation experimentation—continue to be ignored in official capacities, even after nuclear colonialism officially ended with the Republic of the Marshall Islands’s sovereignty through the Compact of Free Association (1986). US nuclear imperialism is persistent given the establishment of these official spaces where the Marshall Islands and United States governments are allowed to interact, politically, and the radiation communities, particularly women subject to disproportionate impacts from nuclear colonialism, are denied entrance or, (literally and metaphorically), voice. Radiation songs, which detail the ongoing and systemic violences of US nuclear imperialism, are ways that singers subversively make their petitions to US citizens and governmental representatives heard. Songs challenge the exclusionary modern systems (law, politics, mass media, biomedicine) that continue to claim specialized knowledge by advancing Marshallese epistemologies, sensibilities, and embodied, or lived experiences of nuclear violence. As a matter of the health humanities in transnational context, the uneven development of the global working class through constitutive colonial conditions and durative imperial networks are matters this essay points up.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"10 to 12 keywords for database searches"},{"word":"separate with semi-colons"}],"section":"Special Forum: Transnational Nuclear Imperialisms","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/426286zh","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jessica","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Schwartz","name_suffix":"","institution":"JESSICA A. SCHWARTZ is Associate Professor of Musicology in the Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA. Schwartz’s first monograph, Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences (Duke University Press 2021), explores Marshallese sonic histories and musical expressions of US nuclear violence and hegemony. Schwartz cofounded the Marshallese Educational Initiative, a non-profit based in Arkansas and also works on and performs punk music.","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2020-08-21T21:44:55Z","date_accepted":"2020-08-21T21:44:55Z","date_published":"2020-12-01T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/43018/galley/32057/download/"}]}