Anna Storm
Biographic Data
| ID | 84499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Storm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Storm |
| SIGNATURE | STORM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0553-1295 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Three, Two, One … No Contamination”
What is it like to visit the inside of a nuclear power plant? Based on autoethnographic observations at nuclear facilities in seven countries, this article suggests that we as visitors are subject to two parallel rituals: a meta-ritual of security, and a main ritual of performing the nuclear facility as safe. This is done, first, by designating the visitor as unknowing, second, by showcasing the nuclear facility as over-secured, and third, by cre…
It Will Feel Empty, but I Am Not Sure Why
Worldwide, hundreds of the first generation of commercial nuclear reactors are currently entering into decommissioning. In parallel, new nuclear energy is promoted to mitigate climate change. Such energy transitions are global but take place in local landscapes, affecting the everyday lives of the elderly, adults, and children. A nuclear plant often dominates the skyline and the local identity, and its existence, disappearance, or replacement, co…
Cold War heritage dissonance and disinheritance as a heritage alternative
Despite the ongoing efforts towards Cold War heritage-making in Europe, the ambiguities in meaning and the cultural status of certain materialities from the second half of the 20th century across different national contexts highlight a heritage dissonance at play. Focusing on the case of the Baltic states, we analyse the engagements with Soviet military remnants since the early 1990s in the context of changing political regimes. We approach the p…
Nuclear memory
This article assays geographical research into nuclear cultures, and cognate conversations in atomic heritage, toxic waste studies, and memory and landscape studies, as one way to develop the notion of nuclear memory. In doing so, we survey how geographers and social scientists have sought to think and communicate memory of nuclear things through three specific modes: the archival, the aesthetic, and the speculative. Our central argument is that …
Eternal Care
In this article, we examine how human interactions with nuclear waste, with special regard to responsibilities and temporalities, have changed over time. Based primarily on historical and contemporary accounts, including interviews, we trace the history of how radioactive residue has been conceptualized and handled in Soviet and post- Soviet Russia and Sweden, from the SecondWorldWar to the present. By juxtaposing the practices and perspectives o…
The pit
A huge and continuously growing pit is about to divide the Swedish mining town of Malmberget into two halves. What once was the town centre is now a 200 metres deep hole, and private homes and key buildings like the old school and the church have had to be demolished or moved. The pit is a human imposed ‘landscape scar’ epitomising the town’s lost golden age of mining, its present situation of decline and uncertain future prospects – despite a re…
Tom Tits Experiment, Södertälje, Sweden (review)
Tom Tits Experiment, Södertälje, Sweden Anna Storm (bio) and Nina Wormbs (bio) In 2006, Tom Tits Experiment, a science center located south of Stockholm in Södertälje, Sweden, received the European Museum Forum's Micheletti Award, a prize established in 1996 that goes to the year's most promising technical or industrial museum. The award citation explains that Tom Tits deserves attention not only because of its content, judged to be "amongst the …
Kärnkraftverk som minnesplatser
Is it possible to imagine a nuclear power plant as a memory site? In many respects, the answer is yes. Nuclear power already forms a part of cultural history museum exhibitions and closed-down nuclear plants have been documented and analysed from a heritage perspective. However, they are also highly controversial places for remembering the past, since their significance is exceptionally ambiguous. The plants stand for potential catastrophe, the c…
Nuclear memory
This article assays geographical research into nuclear cultures, and cognate conversations in atomic heritage, toxic waste studies, and memory and landscape studies, as one way to develop the notion of nuclear memory. In doing so, we survey how geographers and social scientists have sought to think and communicate memory of nuclear things through three specific modes: the archival, the aesthetic, and the speculative. Our central argument is that …
The pit
A huge and continuously growing pit is about to divide the Swedish mining town of Malmberget into two halves. What once was the town centre is now a 200 metres deep hole, and private homes and key buildings like the old school and the church have had to be demolished or moved. The pit is a human imposed ‘landscape scar’ epitomising the town’s lost golden age of mining, its present situation of decline and uncertain future prospects – despite a re…
Eternal Care
In this article, we examine how human interactions with nuclear waste, with special regard to responsibilities and temporalities, have changed over time. Based primarily on historical and contemporary accounts, including interviews, we trace the history of how radioactive residue has been conceptualized and handled in Soviet and post- Soviet Russia and Sweden, from the SecondWorldWar to the present. By juxtaposing the practices and perspectives o…
It Will Feel Empty, but I Am Not Sure Why
Worldwide, hundreds of the first generation of commercial nuclear reactors are currently entering into decommissioning. In parallel, new nuclear energy is promoted to mitigate climate change. Such energy transitions are global but take place in local landscapes, affecting the everyday lives of the elderly, adults, and children. A nuclear plant often dominates the skyline and the local identity, and its existence, disappearance, or replacement, co…
Kärnkraftverk som minnesplatser
Is it possible to imagine a nuclear power plant as a memory site? In many respects, the answer is yes. Nuclear power already forms a part of cultural history museum exhibitions and closed-down nuclear plants have been documented and analysed from a heritage perspective. However, they are also highly controversial places for remembering the past, since their significance is exceptionally ambiguous. The plants stand for potential catastrophe, the c…
Kärnkraftverk som minnesplatser
Is it possible to imagine a nuclear power plant as a memory site? In many respects, the answer is yes. Nuclear power already forms a part of cultural history museum exhibitions and closed-down nuclear plants have been documented and analysed from a heritage perspective. However, they are also highly controversial places for remembering the past, since their significance is exceptionally ambiguous. The plants stand for potential catastrophe, the c…
Tom Tits Experiment, Södertälje, Sweden (review)
Tom Tits Experiment, Södertälje, Sweden Anna Storm (bio) and Nina Wormbs (bio) In 2006, Tom Tits Experiment, a science center located south of Stockholm in Södertälje, Sweden, received the European Museum Forum's Micheletti Award, a prize established in 1996 that goes to the year's most promising technical or industrial museum. The award citation explains that Tom Tits deserves attention not only because of its content, judged to be "amongst the …
The pit
A huge and continuously growing pit is about to divide the Swedish mining town of Malmberget into two halves. What once was the town centre is now a 200 metres deep hole, and private homes and key buildings like the old school and the church have had to be demolished or moved. The pit is a human imposed ‘landscape scar’ epitomising the town’s lost golden age of mining, its present situation of decline and uncertain future prospects – despite a re…
Eternal Care
In this article, we examine how human interactions with nuclear waste, with special regard to responsibilities and temporalities, have changed over time. Based primarily on historical and contemporary accounts, including interviews, we trace the history of how radioactive residue has been conceptualized and handled in Soviet and post- Soviet Russia and Sweden, from the SecondWorldWar to the present. By juxtaposing the practices and perspectives o…
Nuclear memory
This article assays geographical research into nuclear cultures, and cognate conversations in atomic heritage, toxic waste studies, and memory and landscape studies, as one way to develop the notion of nuclear memory. In doing so, we survey how geographers and social scientists have sought to think and communicate memory of nuclear things through three specific modes: the archival, the aesthetic, and the speculative. Our central argument is that …
It Will Feel Empty, but I Am Not Sure Why
Worldwide, hundreds of the first generation of commercial nuclear reactors are currently entering into decommissioning. In parallel, new nuclear energy is promoted to mitigate climate change. Such energy transitions are global but take place in local landscapes, affecting the everyday lives of the elderly, adults, and children. A nuclear plant often dominates the skyline and the local identity, and its existence, disappearance, or replacement, co…
Cold War heritage dissonance and disinheritance as a heritage alternative
Despite the ongoing efforts towards Cold War heritage-making in Europe, the ambiguities in meaning and the cultural status of certain materialities from the second half of the 20th century across different national contexts highlight a heritage dissonance at play. Focusing on the case of the Baltic states, we analyse the engagements with Soviet military remnants since the early 1990s in the context of changing political regimes. We approach the p…
“Three, Two, One … No Contamination”
What is it like to visit the inside of a nuclear power plant? Based on autoethnographic observations at nuclear facilities in seven countries, this article suggests that we as visitors are subject to two parallel rituals: a meta-ritual of security, and a main ritual of performing the nuclear facility as safe. This is done, first, by designating the visitor as unknowing, second, by showcasing the nuclear facility as over-secured, and third, by cre…
History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Cultural heritage (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)