Fall-Out From Fukushima Nuclear Evacuees Seeking Compensation And Legal Protection After The Triple Meltdown | Asian Studies

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. Fall-out from Fukushima sets out to be a manifesto for understanding and supporting post-nuclear disaster societies and will appeal to students and scholars of social legal and linguistic anthropology science and technology studies as well as Japanese studies. |Fall-out from Fukushima Nuclear Evacuees Seeking Compensation and Legal Protection After the Triple Meltdown | Asian Studies