{"product_id":"the-funambulist-issue-60-the-colonized-the-atomic-bomb","title":"The Funambulist, Issue 60: The Colonized \u0026 The Atomic Bomb","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the 60th issue of The Funambulist, which concludes the tenth year of publishing the magazine! On August 6th and 9th, we will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the devastating US nuclear bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Our contribution to the significance of these two massacres consists in convoking Indigenous perspectives from lands that have been exploited for these two bombings. The idea for it came from listening to \u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003eGlen Sean Coulthard \u003c\/b\u003ein Dene Country (in what the Canadian settler colony designates as Northwest Territories) about the uranium extracted from his nation’s land to fabricate the atomic bomb and three decades later, the visit of a Dene delegation to Hiroshima to apologize for the role of their labor and land in the nuclear bombing of the city. This understanding of interconnectedness between distant lands and peoples forms the editorial core of this issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn two distinct contributions, \u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003eSammy Baloji \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003eRoger Peet \u003c\/b\u003e(the artist of the cover artwork) describe how the bomb’s uranium also came from Katanga in Belgian-colonized Congo. The issue includes a beautiful dialogue between \u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003eJennifer Marley \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003eSabu Kohso \u003c\/b\u003eabout the forms of resistance against colonial nuclearism by Tewa pueblos (whose land was stolen to build the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos National Laboratory) and activists in Japan and Okinawa. It also features a fragment of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003eLou Cornum\u003c\/b\u003e‘s Irradiated International manifesto insisting on this interconnectedness. In each of their respective contributions, \u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003eKia Quichocho \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003eJonathan K. Osorio \u003c\/b\u003emobilize Oceanian geographies of the US Empire (namely Guåhan, Tinian, and Hawaiʻi) for the role they were made to play in the 1945 nuclear bombings, as well as the subsequent so-called nuclear “testing” and the militarization of Chamoru and Kanaka Maoli’s archipelagos. This issue also insists on an understanding of Japan as a colonial power. \u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003eLisa Yoneyama \u003c\/b\u003ecenters the lives of colonized Koreans displaced to Honshu and Kyushu under duress and forced into labor, who were killed in the two nuclear bombings, while \u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\"\u003eChristine Hong \u003c\/b\u003edescribes how the liberation of Korea from Japanese colonialism was prevented by US imperialism only days after the bombings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mahala Independent Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61616980263242,"sku":null,"price":16.36,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/5662\/5482\/files\/the-funambulist-60-vignette-900x900-c.jpg?v=1776261822","url":"https:\/\/mahala.bg\/en\/products\/the-funambulist-issue-60-the-colonized-the-atomic-bomb","provider":"Mahala Independent Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}