Disarming Doomsday The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons Since Hiroshima
Becky Alexis-Martin (2019)
Dr. Becky Alexis-Martin
Lecturer
- Area
- School of Social Sciences
- Faculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences
Biography
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin joined academia after a successful prior career in emergency management.
Her research arises at the point where peace, science and technology, humanitarian aid, justice and human rights coalesce. Her research has tackled challenges including: modelling the behaviours of city-dwellers during nuclear events, understanding the lives of nuclear test veterans and their families, exploring the afterlives of nuclear bunkers, writing on the lived experiences of those scarred by nuclear accident and warfare, sharing the aesthetics of 1950s atomic America, and identifying the humanitarian and environmental needs of local nuclear weapons test affected communities worldwide.
Her first monograph, "Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impacts of Nuclear Warfare" was the recipient of the L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize.
She is available for collaboration, consultancy, and PhD supervision.
Teaching
Modules
- Environment, Trafficking and Crime: Transnational Issues and International Governance - PES7062-B
- Social-Ecological Systems and Crises: Concepts, Cases, Contestations - PES7065-B
Professional activities
Awards (2)
- Shaw Power 100: Most Influential People with Disabilities in Britain (1 May 2022)
- L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize (1 August 2020)
Professional associations (3)
- Royal Geographical Society, Fellow
- Advance HE, Fellow
- Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, Fellow
Publications
Book (1)
Book chapter (9)
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Geographies of Nuclear War
Becky Alexis-Martin (2023) Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press.
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Nuclear Geography and Nuclear Issues
Becky Alexis-Martin;Jonathan Turnbull;Luke Bennett;Matthew Bolton;Dunlop Gair;Thom Davies;Gair Dunlop;Dimity Hawkins;Rebecca Hogue;Philippa Holloway;Stephanie Malin;Talei Mangioni;Chloe Mayoux;Gwyn McClelland;Teva Meyer;Elin o'Hara Slavick;Linda Ross (2021)
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Youth, Climate and Environmentalism
Benjamin Bowman;Karen Bell;Becky Alexis-Martin;Karen Bell (2021)
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Arsenic
Becky Alexis-Martin (2020)
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Ginkgo
Becky Alexis-Martin (2020)
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Rocky Flats and Environmental Health: Contested Illnesses & Contended Spaces
Becky Alexis-Martin;Stephanie Malin;Carol Jensen (2020)
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Nuclear Warfare and Weather (Im)Mobilities: From Mushroom Clouds to Fallout
Becky Alexis-Martin (2020)
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Radium
Becky Alexis-Martin (2020)
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Geographies of nuclear warfare: future spaces, zones and technologies
Becky Alexis-Martin (2019)
Conference publication (2)
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Atomic Hol(e)y Spaces: Exploring Death and Worship in Los Alamos
Becky Alexis-Martin (2019) https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/research-events/2019/advancing-peace-geographies/.
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Beyond nuclear geographies: Exploring the entangled afterlives of para-nuclear waste
Becky Alexis-Martin (2019)
Other publication (35)
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New ‘cold war’ grows ever warmer as the prospect of a nuclear arms race hots up
(2024)
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Trump is looking to restart nuclear tests for the first time in 28 years, and we should all be worried
Becky Alexis-Martin The Independent.
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Labour’s new National Risk Register is here – but is it fit for purpose?
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2025) The Telegraph.
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A new age of nuclear proliferation is here. What can we do about it?
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2025) The Telegraph.
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UK nuclear deterrent: the mutual defense agreement is at risk in a Trumpian age
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2025) The Conversation.
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I’m a nuclear warfare expert – is this really the end of Iran’s quest for a nuclear bomb?
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2025) The Telegraph.
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Chess: a game rooted in military strategy that has become a tool of international diplomacy
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2024) The Conversation.
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Putin has broken one of the most sacred rules of warfare - and the consequences could be dire
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2024) The Telegraph.
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From now until Doomsday: Can societal norms help us to prevent our own obliteration?
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2024) THE SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW.
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Editorial: Sociology of War
Becky Alexis-Martin;Milena Kremakova (2024)
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Veterans join Pacific Islanders in bid for nuclear testing compensation
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2023) The Telegraph.
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The forgotten history of Britain's nuclear weapons tests - Imperial War Museum
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2023) Imperial War Museum. Imperial War Museum.
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Ten Steps to Equity: Academic Recruitment
Becky Alexis-Martin;Jennifer Leigh (2023) The Times Higher Education.
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Ten steps to equity: making fieldwork accessible
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2023) The Times Higher Education.
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A field guide to International Studies
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2023) British International Studies Association.
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Generating atomic epistemic justice in Kiritimati: Changing what we don’t know
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2023) UNA-UK.
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Trump’s nomination makes a mockery of the Nobel Peace Prize
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2020) The Independent.
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The atomic history of Kiritimati – a tiny island where humanity realised its most lethal potential
Becky Alexis-Martin (2019) The Conversation.
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In the shadow of Fat Man and Little Boy
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin;Dr Stephanie Malin;Dr Kristen Iversen;Dr Kathleen Sullivan;Dr Mwenza Blell (2018) The Guardian.
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The devastating atomic history of Christmas Island
Becky Alexis-Martin The Independent.
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Disabled academics need more protection against biased hiring
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2022) The Times Higher Education.
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Our Friend the Atom
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2022) Real Life.
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Fallout
Hannah Dean;Becky Alexis-Martin;Susan Boniface (2021)
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Nuclear-armed states are on the wrong side of history
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2020) The Independent.
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The story of women scarred in Hiroshima reminds us the threat of nuclear war has never gone away
Becky Alexis-Martin (2020) The Independent.
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Climate crisis: migration cannot be the only option for people living on ‘drowning’ islands
Becky Alexis-Martin;James Dyke;Jonothan Turnbull;Stephanie Malin (2019) The Conversation.
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Terrorism has a hidden health legacy – as 9/11 shows
Becky Alexis-Martin (2018) The Conversation.
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Book Review: Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2018)
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Saving Face: Death, Necropolitics and the Hiroshima Maidens
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2018) Dead Maidens.
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An Unnatural History of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado
Becky Alexis-Martin;Stephanie Malin (2017) Environment & Society Portal.
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Radiation brain moms and citizen scientists: the gender politics of food contamination after Fukushima
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2017) Gender, Place & Culture.
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Architecture of the apocalypse: is it time to bring back nuclear bunkers?
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2017) The Conversation.
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"It was a Blast!’—Camp Life on Christmas Island, 1956–1958.
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2016) Environment & Society Portal.
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The Anthropocene is a nuclear epoch – so how can we survive it?
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2016) The Independent.
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Colorado’s survivalists hunker down for the election – and the apocalypse
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin (2016) The Conversation.
Peer reviewed journal (14)
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stranger than fiction: that lying, conniving, disabled snitch … burn, burn, burn the witch!
Bonsall, A.;Pickard-Smith, K.;Spaeth, E.;Alexis-Martin, B.;Leigh, J.;Ghosts (2024) Feminist Review. 137, 44-52.
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Book review: The State of a Nuclear State: A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado
Becky Alexis-Martin (2022) Cultural Geographies.
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Addressing the Humanitarian and Environmental Consequences of Atmospheric Nuclear Weapon Tests: A Case Study of UK and US Test Programs at Kiritimati (Christmas) and Malden Islands, Republic of Kiribati
Becky Alexis-Martin;M B Bolton;D Hawkins;S Tisch;T L Mangioni (2021) Global Policy.
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Creating Object-Based Learning for the Anthropocene: A Critical Reflection
Becky Alexis-Martin (2020) International Journal of Management and Applied Research.
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‘Mine are the Dead Spaces': A Discussion of Bunker Work’s Atmospheres, Limits and Routines
Alexis-Martin, B.;Sandys, K.;Mulvihill, M. (2020) Journal of War and Culture Studies.
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Untangling uranium
Alexis-Martin, B. (2020) Extractive Industries and Society.
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Editorial
Becky Alexis-Martin;Adi Kuntsman;Liu Xin (2020) Journal of Environmental Media.
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Assessing the state of uranium research: Environmental justice, health, and extraction
Malin, S.A.;Alexis-Martin, B. (2020) Extractive Industries and Society.
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Sensing the deathscape: Digital media and death during COVID-19
Becky Alexis-Martin (2020) Journal of Environmental Media.
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Nuclear Nomadologies: Curating an Inclusive Social History of the British Nuclear Test Veterans
Becky Alexis-Martin;Wesley Perriman;Stephanie Alexander (2020) Social History in Museums.
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Embedding the atom: Pro-neoliberal activism, Polanyi, and sites of acceptance in American uranium communities
Malin, S.A.;Alexis-Martin, B. (2019) Extractive Industries and Society.
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The nuclear imperialism-necropolitics nexus: contextualizing Chinese-Uyghur oppression in our nuclear age
Alexis-Martin, B. (2019) Eurasian Geography and Economics.
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Towards nuclear geography: Zones, bodies, and communities
Alexis-Martin, B.;Davies, T. (2017) Geography Compass.
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The Chernobyl necklace: The psychosocial experiences of female radiation emergency survivors
Becky Alexis-Martin (2015) BELGEO.
Published report (1)
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Alexis-Martin, B. et al. 2024. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Victim Assistance and Environmental Remediation in the Pacific.
Alexis-Martin, B;Donaldson, B.;Kaller, K.;Ul Ain, Q. (2024) Asia Pacific Leadership Network.