5 Public Consultation as Performative Contradiction: Limiting Discussion in Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Debate

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Critical Perspectives on the Nuclear Story 1
6. The Trouble with Nuclear 11
7. An Official Narrative: Telling the History of Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Policy Making 31
8. The Long Haul: Ethics in the Canadian Nuclear Waste Debate 52
9. Public Consultation as Performative Contradiction: Limiting Discussion in Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Debate 69
10. The Darker Side of Deliberative Democracy: The Canadian Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s National Consultation Process 90
11. Representing the Knowledges of Aboriginal Peoples: The “Management” of Diversity in Canada’s Nuclear Fuel Waste 106
12. Canadian Communities and the Management of Nuclear Fuel Waste 130
13. Situating Canada’s Approaches to Siting a Nuclear Fuel Waste Management Facility 150
14. References 168
15. Contributors 181
16. Index 183