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Fall-Out from Fukushima: Nuclear Evacuees Seeking Compensation and Legal Protection After the Triple Meltdown

Fall-Out from Fukushima: Nuclear Evacuees Seeking Compensation and Legal Protection After the Triple Meltdown

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Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

AnthropologyEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032033002
ISBN13: 9781032033006
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 25 2021
Pages: 190
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book shows how the Fukushima plaintiffs have challenged narratives of safety and risk containment produced by TEPCO and the Japanese government through offering new empirical data on risk perceptions and life choices of some nuclear evacuees.

Considering the Fukushima evacuees' disappearance from public discourse in Japan, the book engages with theoretical writings on risk, neoliberal governmentality and citizen science. Chapters draw on a wide range of anthropologically-related methodologies including socio-linguistics, participant observation, and qualitative interviews. Themes of self-governance, resistance, gender, kinship, class and social change surface throughout, setting the Fukushima experience in a broad historical, social, and comparative context. This is the first ethnographic account of the Fukushima litigation and the first extensive qualitative study documenting the worldviews and living conditions of nuclear evacuees who moved outside Fukushima Prefecture, with a particular focus on underrepresented groups (single mothers, elderly and disabled evacuees). The history of industrial disasters and the role of citizens in shaping environmental policy in Japan is also evaluated.

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