Commemorating the Chernobyl disaster: remembering the future

Guillaume Grandazzi (1, 2)

1 LASAR - Laboratoire d'analyse socio-anthropologique du risque
2 Cancers et préventions

Chernobyl is more than a technological accident belonging to the past; it is a catastrophe that has an effect on the present and that determines the future. But amidst the commemorative events, will the lessons of Chernobyl be heeded? The conclusions of last year’s Chernobyl forum report suggest not: presented as “reassuring”, they stem from a way of thinking that aims to minimize not the real consequences of the catastrophe, but the image of these in the eyes of the victims and the public. According to Guillaume Grandazzi, the commemorations will attempt to salvage the fiction of risk-free atomic power.

Domaines: Sociologie

Guillaume Grandazzi. Commemorating the Chernobyl disaster: remembering the future. 2006. ⟨hal-02127224⟩