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Selected Journalism


  1. Alexis-Martin, B. (April 25 2024) New ‘cold war’ grows ever warmer as the prospect of a nuclear arms race hots up. The Conversation.
  2. Alexis-Martin, B. (October 19 2023) Veterans join Pacific Islanders in bid for nuclear testing compensation. The Telegraph.
  3. Alexis-Martin, B. (2 November 2023) The forgotten history of Britain's nuclear weapons tests Imperial War Museum. (Short film)
  4. Alexis-Martin, B. (August 8 2023) A Field Guide to International Studies. British International Studies Association
  5. Alexis-Martin, B. (September 7 2023) Generating Atomic Epistemic Justice: Changing What we Don’t Know. United Nations Association.  
  6. Alexis-Martin, B. Ten Steps to Equity: Making Fieldwork Accessible. The Times. Making fieldwork accessible
  7. Alexis-Martin, B and Leigh, J. (March 7 2023). Ten Steps to Equity: Academic Recruitment. The Times.
  8. Alexis-Martin, B. (February 14 2023) Use a Defibrillator and Fix a Broken Heart. Cosmic Shambles Network.
  9. Alexis-Martin, B. (August 11 2022) Our Friend the Atom. Real Life. Snap, Inc.
  10. Alexis-Martin, B. (July 24 2022) Disabled academics need more protection against biased hiring. The Times
  11. Alexis-Martin, B. Fallout: Series 4. BBC Radio 4. (First broadcast 30 Dec 2021). Expert consultant.
  12. Alexis-Martin, B. (October 27 2020) Nuclear-armed states are on the wrong side of history. The Independent.
  13. ​​Alexis-Martin, B. (September 12 2020) Trump’s nomination makes a mockery of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Independent.
  14. ​​Alexis-Martin, B. (August 26 2020) The story of women scarred in Hiroshima reminds us the threat of nuclear war has never gone away. The Independent.
  15. Alexis-Martin, B. (June 13 2020) The devastating atomic history of Christmas Island. The Independent.
  16. Alexis-Martin, B. (June 2 2020) Trump is looking to restart nuclear tests for the first time in 28 years, and we should all be worried. The Independent.
  17. Alexis-Martin, B. et al. (August 15 2019) Climate Crisis: Migration cannot be the only option for people living on 'drowning' islands. BBC Futures.
  18. Alexis-Martin, B. (4 July 2019) The atomic history of Kiritimati – a tiny island where humanity realised its most lethal potential. The Conversation.
  19. Alexis-Martin, B. (September 14 2018) Terrorism has a hidden health legacy – as 9/11 shows. The Conversation.
  20. Alexis-Martin, B. (6 April 2018) Saving Face: Death, Necropolitics and the Hiroshima Maidens. www.deadmaidens.com
  21. Alexis-Martin, B. (7 September 2018) In the shadow of Fat Man and Little Boy. The Guardian.
  22. Alexis-Martin, B. (6 August 2017) Life after the bomb: exploring the psychogeography of Hiroshima. The Guardian.
  23. .Alexis-Martin, B. (8 February 2017) Architecture of the apocalypse: is it time to bring back nuclear bunkers? The Conversation.
  24. Alexis-Martin, B. (30 January 2017) Finger on the button: should Trump's nuclear weapons access be restricted? The Guardian.
  25. Alexis-Martin, B. (16 December 2016) If nuclear war broke out, where's the safest place on Earth? The Guardian.
  26. Alexis-Martin, B. (9 December 2016) The Anthropocene is a nuclear epoch – so how can we survive it? The Independent.
  27. Alexis-Martin, B. (31 October 2016) Colorado’s survivalists hunker down for the election – and the apocalypse. The Conversation.
  28. Alexis-Martin, B. (9 August 2015) Nuclear fallout: the mental health consequences of contaminated places The Guardian. ​​

Selected Peer-Reviewed Books, Papers, Policy Reports, and Special Editions

  1. Alexis-Martin, B. and Malin, S. 2024. Gender and Environmental Justice. Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education. Bloomsbury (in press).
  2. Alexis-Martin, B. and Kremakova, M. 2024. Editorial: Sociology of War. Sociological Review.
  3. Alexis-Martin, B. 2024. From now until Doomsday: Can societal norms help us to prevent our own obliteration? Sociology of War. Sociological Review.
  4. Alexis-Martin, B., Johnson, O., and UI Ain, Q. 2024. Addressing the Impact of UK and US Testing in Kiribati. Norwegian People’s Aid. April 2024 (report).
  5. Alexis-Martin, B., Maslen, M., Kaller, K., Donaldson, B., UI Ain, Q. 2024. TPNW: Victim Assistance and Environmental Remediation in the Pacific. Asia Pacific Leadership Network (report).
  6. Alexis-Martin, B. 2024. War and Conflict. The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities. Routledge (in press).
  7. Alexis-Martin, B. 2024. Blasts from the Past: Echoing Memories and Making Fragile Kin Sixty Years after the H-Bomb. Environmental Humanities (under contract).
  8. Alexis-Martin, B. 2023. Geographies of Nuclear War. Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press.
  9. Alexis-Martin, B., 2023. Nuclear Mobilities. In: The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities. Routledge.
  10. Alexis-Martin, B., Donaldson, B, Tiemory, E, Minor, E. 2022. Impacts from the British Nuclear Tests in Kiribati. United Nations Association Report for the First Meeting of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, United Nations. Vienna. 20-23 June 2022.
  11. Alexis-Martin, B., 2022. Book Review: The State of a Nuclear State: A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado. Cultural Geographies, 29(2), pp.329-330.
  12. Bowman, B., Bell, K. and Alexis-Martin, B., 2021. Youth, Climate, and Environmentalism. In Diversity and Inclusion in Environmentalism (pp. 132-147). Routledge.
  13. Alexis‐Martin, B., Turnbull, J., Bennett, L., Bolton, M., Davies, T., Dunlop, G., Hawkins, D., Hogue, R.H., Holloway, P., Malin, S.A. and Mangioni, T.L., 2021. Nuclear Geographies and Nuclear Issues. International Encyclopaedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology.
  14. Alexis‐Martin, B., Bolton, M.B., Hawkins, D., Tisch, S. and Mangioni, T.L., 2021. 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. Global Policy, 12(1), pp.106-121.
  15. Alexis-Martin, B, Malin, S, and Jensen, C. 2020. Rocky Flats and Environmental Health: Contested Illnesses and Contended Spaces. In Doom with a View: Historical and Cultural Contexts of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. Iversen, K. ed., Fulcrum Publishing.
  16. Alexis-Martin, B., Sandys, K. and Mulvihill, M., 2020. ‘Mine are the Dead Spaces': A Discussion of Bunker Work’s Atmospheres, Limits and Routines. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 13(1), pp.54-74.
  17. Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Creating Object-Based Learning for the Anthropocene: A Critical Reflection. International Journal of Management and Applied Research, 7(3), pp.215-223.
  18. Alexis-Martin, B. 2020. Nuclear Warfare and Weather (Im)mobilities. In Weather: Spaces, Mobilities and Affects (eds. Barry, Borovnik, Edensor). Routledge.
  19. Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Ginkgo. In Manchester: Something Rich and Strange (pp. 263-266). MUP.
  20. Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Radium. In Manchester: Something Rich and Strange (pp. 237-240). MUP.
  21. Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Arsenic. In Manchester: Something Rich and Strange (pp. 199-201). MUP.
  22. Alexis-Martin, B., Kuntsman, A. and Xin, L., 2020. Editorial. Special Edition: Digital COVID. Journal of Environmental Media, 1(1).
  23. Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Sensing the Deathscape: Digital Media and Death during COVID-19. Journal of Environmental Media, 1(1), pp.11-1.
  24. Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Untangling Uranium. The Extractive Industries and Society, 7(2), pp.517-519.
  25. Malin, S.A. and Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Embedding the Atom: Pro-neoliberal Activism, Polanyi, and Sites of acceptance in American uranium communities. The Extractive Industries and Society, 7(2), pp.535-543.
  26. Malin, S.A. and Alexis-Martin, B., 2020. Assessing the State of Uranium Research: Environmental Justice, Health, and Extraction. The Extractive Industries and Society, 7(2), pp.512-516.
  27. Alexis-Martin, B. 2019. Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impacts of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima. London: Pluto Press. ISBN: 0745339204.  Won British International Studies Association L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2020. Shortlisted for Bread and Roses Award 2020.
  28. Alexis-Martin, B., 2019. Geographies of Nuclear Warfare: Future Spaces, Zones, and Technologies. In: A Research Agenda for Military Geographies. Edward Elgar Press. pp.40–56. ISBN: 9781786438867
  29. Alexis-Martin, B., 2019. The Nuclear Imperialism-Necropolitics Nexus: Contextualizing Chinese-Uyghur Oppression in our Nuclear Age. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 60(2), pp.152-176
  30. Alexis-Martin, B., Malin, S., Winde, F. 2019-2020. Special Edition: Extracting Social Justice from Uranium. The Extractive Industries and Society.
  31. Alexis-Martin, B., Waight, E. and Blell, M., 2019. Nuclear Families: A Social Study of British Nuclear Test Veteran Community Families. University of Southampton: Southampton, UK.
  32. Alexis-Martin, B., 2018. Book review: Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches. Cultural Sociology, 12(2)
  33. Alexis-Martin, B., 2018. The Derelict Afterlives of Para-nuclear Waste. Toxic News. European Research Council.
  34. Malin, S., and Alexis-Martin, B., 2017. Flatlining: Exploring hidden toxic landscapes and the embodiment of contamination at Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, USA. Toxic News. European Research Council.
  35. Alexis-Martin, B., 2017. Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: the Gender Politics of Food Contamination After Fukushima. Gender, Place and Culture, 24(9), pp. 1366-1368.
  36. Alexis-Martin, B., and Davies, T., 2017. Towards Nuclear Geography: Zones, Bodies and Communities. Geography Compass, 11(9), e12325
  37. Alexis-Martin, B., 2017. An Unnatural Environmental History of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Environment & Society, Summer, no. 21. Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society.
  38. Alexis-Martin, B., 2016. It was a Blast!'—Camp Life on Christmas Island, 1956–1958. Environment & Society, Autumn, no. 19. Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society.
  39. Alexis-Martin, B., 2016. Grapple Slings and Moonshine: Conversations with the Men who Tested Atomic Weapons on Christmas Island. Toxic News. European Research Council
  40. Alexis-Martin, B., 2016. The Chernobyl necklace: the psychosocial experiences of female radiation emergency survivors. BELGEO, 1, pp.1-10.