ISBN:
9780520394100
,
9780520394117
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 339 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
California series in public anthropology 56
Series Statement:
California series in public anthropology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Morimoto, Ryō Nuclear ghost
DDC:
363.17/990952117
Keywords:
Radioactive pollution
;
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011
;
Fukushima-ken (Japan) Social conditions 21st century
Abstract:
"'There is a nuclear ghost in Minamisōma,' explained an elderly local who had a mysterious experiencing following the 2011 nuclear disaster in coastal Fukushima. In his highly original book, Ryo Morimoto explores the nuclear ghost that lives among the graying population that remained in the contaminated region after the fallout. Encountering radiation's shape-shifting effects on residents' livelihoods, nonhuman others, and local ecologies at the edges of evacuation zones, Morimoto asks: what happens if the state authority, scientific experts, and the public dispute over the extent, threshold, and nature of the harm from the accident? As one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of life after Fukushima in English, Nuclear Ghost offers dazzling stories from a diverse group of residents who aspire to live and die well in their now irradiated homes, offering a compelling case for reimaging relationality and accountability in the ever-atomizing world"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Naming the nuclear ghosts -- Spirited away -- Kaleidoscopic harm -- The compensation game -- Radioactive mosquitos and the science of half-lives -- Between Fūhyō and Fūka -- Frecon Baggu and the archive of (half)lives -- In search of the invisible -- A wild boar chase -- Epilogue.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
