Articles | Volume 81, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-137-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-137-2026
Standard article
 | 
16 Feb 2026
Standard article |  | 16 Feb 2026

The menhir: aesthetic politics of radioactive waste disposal in northern Switzerland

Rony Emmenegger and Federico Luisetti
Metrics will be available soon.
Latest update: 16 Feb 2026
Download
Short summary
Geological disposal projects rest on the assumption that radioactive waste can be safely managed through its spatio-temporal separation from human life at the surface. This paper examines how a local farmer in the Zürcher Weinland – one of the regions considered for nuclear waste disposal – disrupted this assumption by rendering the radioactive hazard perceptible through a series of landscape interventions.
Share