Grassroot responses to the Tohoku earthquake of 11 March 2011: Overcoming the dichotomy between victim and helper (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

Fisker-Nielsen, Anne Mette

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8322.2012.00873.x

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“…Hence, they were perceived as an anomaly in Japanese normative culture. As Fisker-Nielsen (2012: 20) explains in this regard: ‘At the local level in Japan, the individual is normally understood as standing in the way of collective national, political or economic interests. This is increasingly seen as political rhetoric devoid of substance which caters to elite interests’.…”

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Post-political uncertainties: Governing nuclear controversies in post-Fukushima Japan

Polleri

2019

Soc Stud Sci

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This article examines a set of public controversies surrounding the role of nuclear power and the threat of radioactive contamination in a post-Fukushima Japan. The empirical case study focuses on the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan most influential ministry and, more importantly, the former regulator of nuclear energy before the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Through participant observation of METI’s public conferences, as well as interviews with state and non-state actors, I examine how particular visions of nuclear power continue to affect the basis of expert authority through which state actors handle post-Fukushima controversies and their subsequent uncertainties. In its post-Fukushima representations, METI frames nuclear power as an apolitical necessity for the well-being of the Japanese nation-state and the common humanity. It does so by mobilizing categories of uncertainty around specific political scenes, such as global warming. For METI, the potential uncertainties linked with the abandonment of nuclear power have the power to trigger political turmoil of a higher scale than those linked with Fukushima’s radioactive contamination. A form of double depoliticization takes place, in which the issue of Fukushima’s radioactive contamination gets depoliticized through perceived priorities that are paradoxically depicted as ‘post-political’ – that is, in an urgent need for immediate action and not open to in-depth deliberation. I refer to this process as establishing ‘post-political uncertainties’. This kind of depoliticization raises ethical questions surrounding meaningful public participation in decisions that happen at the intersection of politics and science and technology study.

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Post-political uncertainties: Governing nuclear controversies in post-Fukushima Japan

Polleri

2019

Soc Stud Sci

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“…Details in this article are drawn from these sources, as well as interviews conducted by the author in Sendai with Soka Gakkai administrators who led relief efforts at the Tōhoku Culture Center (interviews 11 June 2012). Additional details are available in English in Fisker‐Nielsen .…”

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What Have Religious Groups Done After 3.11? Part 1: A Brief Survey of Religious Mobilization after the Great East Japan Earthquake Disasters

McLaughlin

2013

Religion Compass

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This article serves two principal purposes: 1) to survey the many rescue, relief, and reconstruction initiatives undertaken by Buddhist, Shinto, Christian, and New Religious organizations in the two years since the March 2011 disasters that devastated northeast Japan, and 2) to introduce electronic and print resources to readers interested in learning more about specific religious disaster response campaigns. The pragmatic aid efforts carried out by religions contrast with moralistic interpretations offered by public figures, and they indicate that many religious groups regard their disaster aid not as temporary relief but instead as opportunities to begin positive new engagements with the Japanese public.

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Sustainability science in action: a review of the state of the field through case studies on disaster recovery, bioenergy, and precautionary purchasing

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Grassroot responses to the Tohoku earthquake of 11 March 2011: Overcoming the dichotomy between victim and helper (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

Post-political uncertainties: Governing nuclear controversies in post-Fukushima Japan

Post-political uncertainties: Governing nuclear controversies in post-Fukushima Japan

What Have Religious Groups Done After 3.11? Part 1: A Brief Survey of Religious Mobilization after the Great East Japan Earthquake Disasters

Sustainability science in action: a review of the state of the field through case studies on disaster recovery, bioenergy, and precautionary purchasing

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