Robert Jacob
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 251305 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert Jacob |
| NOMBRES | Robert |
| APELLIDO | Jacob |
| FIRMA | JACOB R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9444-6593 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1948 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Les deux régimes de vérité de l’histoire judiciaire occidentale ( common law et systèmes romano-canoniques). Résumé du Midi du Siej du 25 novembre 2022
Historiquement, la vérité judiciaire a été longtemps conçue comme la version des faits de la cause la plus propre à rétablir la concorde. En Europe occidentale, ce fut d’abord celle qu’accréditait la présence de Dieu dans l’ordalie, elle-même comprise comme homologue à sa présence dans le rite eucharistique. C’est ce qui fait de la théologie des sacrements une clef de compréhension de l’histoire de la vérité judiciaire. Elle demeure un paradigme …
Discordant Memories
Reviewed by: Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture by Alison Fields Robert (Bo) Jacobs (bio) Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture By Alison Fields. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. 256. "Containment—the process of gaining control over something harmful," writes Alison Fields, "is a key mechanism for responding to traumatic memories" (p. 16). Her book proceeds to explore nuclear-theme…
Managing The Days
The recently released eight-part Japanese docudrama THE DAYS (Netflix 2023) ostensibly concerns the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, nuclear reactor explosions and subsequent meltdowns at Fukushima. We highlight the problematic rendering of this particular Fukushima screen history by analysing THE DAYS' narrative veracity and reliance on 'heroic' disaster tropes, absent-presences, the glossing over of the radiological legacy, and the context of re…
Global Hibakusha
My book Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha has just been released by Yale University Press. The book is based on more than 10 years of research on the Global Hibakusha Project with my research collaborator Mick Broderick. This article provides a short overview of the book; you can learn more and watch some lectures at the book's website: Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha
Not Seeing the Contaminated Forest for the Decontaminated Trees in Fukushima
This article explores how the models of medical risk from radiation established in the aftermath of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are insufficient for understanding the risks faced by people in contaminated environments like Fukushima. These models focus exclusively on levels of external radiation, while the risk faced by people in areas affected by radioactive fallout comes from internalizing fallout particles. These models have …
On Forgetting Fukushima
This month the media and social networks are busy remembering Fukushima on the fifth anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, but what we are really observing is the beginning of the work of forgetting Fukushima. Fukushima is taking its place alongside the many forgotten nuclear disasters of the last 70 years. Like Mayak and Santa Susana, soon all that will be left of the Fukushima nuclear disaster are the radionuclides that w…
Re-imagining Hiroshima
The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene
On March 1st 1954 the United States tested its first deliverable hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The weapon yielded a force three times as large as its designers had planned or anticipated. The radioactive fallout cloud that resulted from the weapon would kill a fisherman located 100 km away, cause illness in hundreds and perhaps thousands of people across hundreds of miles, and contaminate entire atolls with high levels of…
The Judge and the Sacred
The present paper reviews some conclusions deriving from a series of works by a historian of medieval Western law and justice who has applied comparative analysis to the Chinese world. It points to the distance between the two civilizations, in terms of the concept of a “debt of justice” owed by the state, the autonomy of the judicial power, and judicial ethics. It opens a debate on the cultural elements that define the judicial truth-making proc…
The Radiation That Makes People Invisible
Radiation makes people invisible. We know that exposure to radiation can be deleterious to one's health; can cause sickness and even death when received in high doses. But it does more. People who have been exposed to radiation, or even those who suspect that they have been exposed to radiation, including those who never experience radiation-related illnesses, may find that their lives are forever changed - that they have assumed a kind of second…
United Nations Report Reveals the Ongoing Legacy of Nuclear Colonialism in the Marshall Islands
In September of 2012, Dr. Calin Georgescu, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and waste, submitted his report on the legacy of the nuclear weapon testing program of the United States in the Marshall Islands to the Human Rights Council of the UN. This long overdue report offers a harsh assessment of the history of American nuclear t…
Radiation as Cultural Talisman
On what appeared to be a normal day off the Pacific coast of California, Scott Thomas was relaxing on his boat and enjoying a peaceful day of leisure. His wife had just gone below to grab two beers when he noticed a strange fog approaching. He stood up, and for a moment, the fog enveloped him. The cloud passed, and when his wife returned, she saw that Scott seemed to be covered with glitter. The couple thought nothing of this until the impossible…
Nuke York, New York
Almost immediately after 9/11, cultural tropes that had long been associated with the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were relocated to new roles as descriptors of the attack on New York City. Where once terms like "ground zero" referred to the detonation points of the nuclear weapons that were dropped in Japan, Ground Zero now refers to the site where the World Trade Center towers once stood in lower Manhattan. This appropriation of fr…
Economic experts or laypeople? How teachers and journalists judge trade and immigration policies
The Atomic Bomb and Hiroshima on the Silver Screen
Two valuable new documentaries on atomic weapons and their human legacy offer new light on the inner world of atomic testing and weapons manufacture and the impact of the bomb on atomic test areas in the United States, on Bikini, and Hiroshima
Social Fallout
On March 1, 1954 a Japanese tuna trawler was at sea in the Marshall Islands. Quite unexpectedly grey ash began to fall like snow and covered the boat and crew. It was not snow; it was radioactive fallout from a nuclear test that had been conducted by the United States hours earlier 90 miles from the exclusion zone proclaimed by the US. This nuclear explosion, known as the Bravo Test, was the first detonation of a deliverable hydrogen bomb. The 15…
Hours After Hiroshima
Editor's note: See the Japanese film footage of the devastation of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and its aftermath, the Bikini tests of July 1946 and the rapturous account of the American announcer shown in an American newsreel below. This film includes the first images of hibakusha seen in the United States
Chi2006
article Share on CHI2006: what is the next generation of human-computer interaction? Authors: Robert Jacob Tufts University Tufts UniversityView Profile , Audrey Girouard Tufts University Tufts UniversityView Profile , Leanne M. Hirshfield Tufts University Tufts UniversityView Profile , Michael Horn Tufts University Tufts UniversityView Profile , Orit Shaer Tufts University Tufts UniversityView Profile , Erin Treacy Solovey Tufts University Tufts…
Jus ou la cuisine romaine de la norme
L’étymologie du mot latin jus, le droit, est de longtemps un problème controversé et les solutions qui ont été proposées jusqu’ici comportent toutes certaines difficultés. Cette étude explore une voie nouvelle. Le latin comportait un autre mot ius (le jus, la sauce, le bouillon), correspondant à une désignation des jus de cuisson commune à tout l’espace indo-européen. Nous avançons que le ius1 des dictionnaires (le droit) s’est en réalité formé s…
Bannissement et Rite De La Langue Tirée Au Moyen Âge
R. Jacob Diverses sources allemandes des xiiieet xivesiècles font allusion à des bannissements effectués ' par les doigts et la langue ', formule qui a longtemps été comprise comme un équivalent de ' par le geste et la parole ', et qui n'aurait donc renvoyé qu'à un formalisme indéfini. Cette étude entreprend de montrer, au contraire, qu'elle fait référence à un rituel précis d'extension des doigts et de langue tirée en direction du banni. Les mêm…
Le meurtre du seigneur dans la société féodale. La mémoire, le rite, la fonction
La révolte est un phénomène des plus instructifs pour la compréhension de la nature, du fonctionnement et de l'évolution des ordres juridiques. La contestation d'un pouvoir, lorsqu'elle émane collectivement de ceux qui y sont soumis, révèle toujours ses défaillances en même temps qu'elle perturbe les conditions de son exercice. Parfois, elle en modifie les structures et les règles : elle est alors source de droit. Aussi maintes disciplines juridi…
The Life of Richard Wagner, Vol. 4
Economic experts or laypeople? How teachers and journalists judge trade and immigration policies
Re-imagining Hiroshima
The Judge and the Sacred
The present paper reviews some conclusions deriving from a series of works by a historian of medieval Western law and justice who has applied comparative analysis to the Chinese world. It points to the distance between the two civilizations, in terms of the concept of a “debt of justice” owed by the state, the autonomy of the judicial power, and judicial ethics. It opens a debate on the cultural elements that define the judicial truth-making proc…
On Forgetting Fukushima
This month the media and social networks are busy remembering Fukushima on the fifth anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, but what we are really observing is the beginning of the work of forgetting Fukushima. Fukushima is taking its place alongside the many forgotten nuclear disasters of the last 70 years. Like Mayak and Santa Susana, soon all that will be left of the Fukushima nuclear disaster are the radionuclides that w…
The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene
On March 1st 1954 the United States tested its first deliverable hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The weapon yielded a force three times as large as its designers had planned or anticipated. The radioactive fallout cloud that resulted from the weapon would kill a fisherman located 100 km away, cause illness in hundreds and perhaps thousands of people across hundreds of miles, and contaminate entire atolls with high levels of…
The Life of Richard Wagner, Vol. 4
Le meurtre du seigneur dans la société féodale. La mémoire, le rite, la fonction
La révolte est un phénomène des plus instructifs pour la compréhension de la nature, du fonctionnement et de l'évolution des ordres juridiques. La contestation d'un pouvoir, lorsqu'elle émane collectivement de ceux qui y sont soumis, révèle toujours ses défaillances en même temps qu'elle perturbe les conditions de son exercice. Parfois, elle en modifie les structures et les règles : elle est alors source de droit. Aussi maintes disciplines juridi…
Bannissement et Rite De La Langue Tirée Au Moyen Âge
R. Jacob Diverses sources allemandes des xiiieet xivesiècles font allusion à des bannissements effectués ' par les doigts et la langue ', formule qui a longtemps été comprise comme un équivalent de ' par le geste et la parole ', et qui n'aurait donc renvoyé qu'à un formalisme indéfini. Cette étude entreprend de montrer, au contraire, qu'elle fait référence à un rituel précis d'extension des doigts et de langue tirée en direction du banni. Les mêm…
Jus ou la cuisine romaine de la norme
L’étymologie du mot latin jus, le droit, est de longtemps un problème controversé et les solutions qui ont été proposées jusqu’ici comportent toutes certaines difficultés. Cette étude explore une voie nouvelle. Le latin comportait un autre mot ius (le jus, la sauce, le bouillon), correspondant à une désignation des jus de cuisson commune à tout l’espace indo-européen. Nous avançons que le ius1 des dictionnaires (le droit) s’est en réalité formé s…
Chi2006
article Share on CHI2006: what is the next generation of human-computer interaction? Authors: Robert Jacob Tufts University Tufts UniversityView Profile , Audrey Girouard Tufts University Tufts UniversityView Profile , Leanne M. Hirshfield Tufts University Tufts UniversityView Profile , Michael Horn Tufts University Tufts UniversityView Profile , Orit Shaer Tufts University Tufts UniversityView Profile , Erin Treacy Solovey Tufts University Tufts…
Hours After Hiroshima
Editor's note: See the Japanese film footage of the devastation of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and its aftermath, the Bikini tests of July 1946 and the rapturous account of the American announcer shown in an American newsreel below. This film includes the first images of hibakusha seen in the United States
Economic experts or laypeople? How teachers and journalists judge trade and immigration policies
The Atomic Bomb and Hiroshima on the Silver Screen
Two valuable new documentaries on atomic weapons and their human legacy offer new light on the inner world of atomic testing and weapons manufacture and the impact of the bomb on atomic test areas in the United States, on Bikini, and Hiroshima
Social Fallout
On March 1, 1954 a Japanese tuna trawler was at sea in the Marshall Islands. Quite unexpectedly grey ash began to fall like snow and covered the boat and crew. It was not snow; it was radioactive fallout from a nuclear test that had been conducted by the United States hours earlier 90 miles from the exclusion zone proclaimed by the US. This nuclear explosion, known as the Bravo Test, was the first detonation of a deliverable hydrogen bomb. The 15…
United Nations Report Reveals the Ongoing Legacy of Nuclear Colonialism in the Marshall Islands
In September of 2012, Dr. Calin Georgescu, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and waste, submitted his report on the legacy of the nuclear weapon testing program of the United States in the Marshall Islands to the Human Rights Council of the UN. This long overdue report offers a harsh assessment of the history of American nuclear t…
Radiation as Cultural Talisman
On what appeared to be a normal day off the Pacific coast of California, Scott Thomas was relaxing on his boat and enjoying a peaceful day of leisure. His wife had just gone below to grab two beers when he noticed a strange fog approaching. He stood up, and for a moment, the fog enveloped him. The cloud passed, and when his wife returned, she saw that Scott seemed to be covered with glitter. The couple thought nothing of this until the impossible…
Nuke York, New York
Almost immediately after 9/11, cultural tropes that had long been associated with the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were relocated to new roles as descriptors of the attack on New York City. Where once terms like "ground zero" referred to the detonation points of the nuclear weapons that were dropped in Japan, Ground Zero now refers to the site where the World Trade Center towers once stood in lower Manhattan. This appropriation of fr…
The Judge and the Sacred
The present paper reviews some conclusions deriving from a series of works by a historian of medieval Western law and justice who has applied comparative analysis to the Chinese world. It points to the distance between the two civilizations, in terms of the concept of a “debt of justice” owed by the state, the autonomy of the judicial power, and judicial ethics. It opens a debate on the cultural elements that define the judicial truth-making proc…
The Radiation That Makes People Invisible
Radiation makes people invisible. We know that exposure to radiation can be deleterious to one's health; can cause sickness and even death when received in high doses. But it does more. People who have been exposed to radiation, or even those who suspect that they have been exposed to radiation, including those who never experience radiation-related illnesses, may find that their lives are forever changed - that they have assumed a kind of second…
Re-imagining Hiroshima
The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene
On March 1st 1954 the United States tested its first deliverable hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The weapon yielded a force three times as large as its designers had planned or anticipated. The radioactive fallout cloud that resulted from the weapon would kill a fisherman located 100 km away, cause illness in hundreds and perhaps thousands of people across hundreds of miles, and contaminate entire atolls with high levels of…
On Forgetting Fukushima
This month the media and social networks are busy remembering Fukushima on the fifth anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, but what we are really observing is the beginning of the work of forgetting Fukushima. Fukushima is taking its place alongside the many forgotten nuclear disasters of the last 70 years. Like Mayak and Santa Susana, soon all that will be left of the Fukushima nuclear disaster are the radionuclides that w…
Not Seeing the Contaminated Forest for the Decontaminated Trees in Fukushima
This article explores how the models of medical risk from radiation established in the aftermath of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are insufficient for understanding the risks faced by people in contaminated environments like Fukushima. These models focus exclusively on levels of external radiation, while the risk faced by people in areas affected by radioactive fallout comes from internalizing fallout particles. These models have …
Global Hibakusha
My book Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha has just been released by Yale University Press. The book is based on more than 10 years of research on the Global Hibakusha Project with my research collaborator Mick Broderick. This article provides a short overview of the book; you can learn more and watch some lectures at the book's website: Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha
Les deux régimes de vérité de l’histoire judiciaire occidentale ( common law et systèmes romano-canoniques). Résumé du Midi du Siej du 25 novembre 2022
Historiquement, la vérité judiciaire a été longtemps conçue comme la version des faits de la cause la plus propre à rétablir la concorde. En Europe occidentale, ce fut d’abord celle qu’accréditait la présence de Dieu dans l’ordalie, elle-même comprise comme homologue à sa présence dans le rite eucharistique. C’est ce qui fait de la théologie des sacrements une clef de compréhension de l’histoire de la vérité judiciaire. Elle demeure un paradigme …
Discordant Memories
Reviewed by: Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture by Alison Fields Robert (Bo) Jacobs (bio) Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture By Alison Fields. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. 256. "Containment—the process of gaining control over something harmful," writes Alison Fields, "is a key mechanism for responding to traumatic memories" (p. 16). Her book proceeds to explore nuclear-theme…
Managing The Days
The recently released eight-part Japanese docudrama THE DAYS (Netflix 2023) ostensibly concerns the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, nuclear reactor explosions and subsequent meltdowns at Fukushima. We highlight the problematic rendering of this particular Fukushima screen history by analysing THE DAYS' narrative veracity and reliance on 'heroic' disaster tropes, absent-presences, the glossing over of the radiological legacy, and the context of re…
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