Legacies of Fukushima : : 3.11 in Context / / ed. by Ryuma Shineha, Kyle Cleveland, Scott Gabriel Knowles.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Bonner, Sean,; Brown, Azby,; Cleveland, Kyle,; Fackler, Martin,; Jacobs, Robert,; Jobin, Paul,; Juraku, Kohta,; Kamisato, Tatsuhiro,; Kingston, Jeff,; Kinsella, William J.,; Knowles, Scott Gabriel,; Lesavre, Başak Saraç-,; Lifton, Robert Jay,; Murillo, Luis Felipe R.,; Schmid, Sonja D.,; Shineha, Ryuma,; Simms, James,; Suzuki, Tatsujiro,; Yagi, Ekou,
• HerausgeberIn: Cleveland, Kyle,; Knowles, Scott Gabriel,; Shineha, Ryuma,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

It was an unlikely convergence of events. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the largest in Japanese memory and the fourth largest recorded in world history; a tsunami that peaked at forty meters, devastating the seaboard of northeastern Japan; three reactors in meltdown at the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima; experts in disarray and suffering victims young and old. It was, as well, an unlikely convergence of legacies. Submerged traumas resurfaced and communities long accustomed to living quietly with hazards suddenly were heard. New legacies of disaster were handed down, unfolding slowly for generations to come.The defining disaster of contemporary Japanese history still goes by many different names: The Great East Japan Earthquake; the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami; the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster; the 3.11 Triple Disaster. Each name represents a struggle to place the disaster on a map and fix a date to a timeline. But within each of these names hides a combination of disasters and legacies that converged on March 11, 2011, before veering away in all directions: to the past, to the future, across a nation, and around the world. Which pathways from the past will continue, which pathways ended with 3.11, and how are these legacies entangled?Legacies of Fukushima places these questions front and center. The authors collected here contextualize 3.11 as a disaster with a long period of premonition and an uncertain future. The volume employs a critical disaster studies approach, and the authors are drawn from the realms of journalism and academia, science policy and citizen science, activism and governance—and they come from East Asia, America, and Europe. 3.11 is a Japanese legacy with global impact, and the authors and their methods reflect this diversity of experience.Contributors: Sean Bonner, Azby Brown, Kyle Cleveland, Martin Fackler, Robert Jacobs, Paul Jobin, Kohta Juraku, Tatsuhiro Kamisato, Jeff Kingston, William J. Kinsella, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Robert Jay Lifton, Luis Felipe R. Murillo, Başak Saraç-Lesavre, Sonja D. Schmid, Ryuma Shineha, James Simms, Tatsujiro Suzuki, Ekou Yagi.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword. Fukushima’s Special Message -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. LEARNING FROM DISASTER -- Chapter 1. What Was Learned from 3.11 -- Chapter 2. Unfulfilled Promises: Why Structural Disasters Make It Difficult to “Learn from Disasters” -- Chapter 3. Fukushima Radiation Inside Out -- Chapter 4. Has Japan Learned a Lesson from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident -- Chapter 5. The Developmental State and Nuclear Power in Japan -- PART II. PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND PUBLIC TRUST -- Chapter 6. The Road to Fukushima: A US- Japan History -- Chapter 7. Media Capture: The Japanese Press and Fukushima -- Chapter 8. The Politics of Radiation Assessment in the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Chapter 8. The Politics of Radiation Assessment in the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis -- Chapter 9. Nuclear Labor, Its Invisibility, and the Dispute over Low- Dose Radiation -- Chapter 10. Food and Water Contamination After the Fukushima Nuclear Accident -- Chapter 11. Suffering the Effects of Scientific Evidence -- PART III. POSSIBLE FUTURES -- Chapter 12. Building a Community- Based Platform for Radiation Monitoring After 3.11 -- Chapter 13. The Closely Watched Case of Iitate Village: The Need for Global Communication of Local Problems -- Chapter 14. Describing and Memorializing 3.11: Namie and Ishinomaki -- Chapter 15. Renegotiating Nuclear Safety After Fukushima: Regulatory Dilemmas and Dialogues in the United States -- Chapter 16. International Reactions to Fukushima -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments