Japanese families decoupling following the Fukushima Nuclear Plant disaster

Morioka, Rika

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“…If radiation from Fukushima proved to be harmful to their families and could eventually destroy the economy, they would have to fundamentally re-evaluate their role. To consider the threat of radiation from the technology they have created is to doubt the system in which they help maintain, as well as their values and life choices (Morioka, 2015: 6).…”

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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

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The Interplay of Climate and Disaster in Men's Stories of the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake in Aotearoa New Zealand¹

Rushton,

Phibbs,

Kenney

et al. 2024

Sociological Inquiry

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This paper contributes to the emerging field of men, masculinities, and disasters by drawing on narratives of men's accounts of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, including how stories of the earthquake intersect with experiences and understandings of extreme weather and climate change. A qualitative methodology was employed, and semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 19 men who experienced the 7.8 magnitude earthquake. This article offers an examination of the complexity of disaster experiences and recovery, as well as how people make sense of hazards and risks. We argue that ongoing exposure to climate hazards informed participant's responses to other infrequent natural hazard events, such as the Kaikōura earthquake. The research identified that men construct their own understandings and responses to natural hazards through a hierarchy of risk perception and probability based on personal experience.

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Japanese families decoupling following the Fukushima Nuclear Plant disaster

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

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

The Interplay of Climate and Disaster in Men's Stories of the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake in Aotearoa New Zealand¹

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Japanese families decoupling following the Fukushima Nuclear Plant disaster

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

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

The Interplay of Climate and Disaster in Men's Stories of the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake in Aotearoa New Zealand1

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