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Japan Copes with Calamity

Brigitte Steger, Tom Gill, David H. Slater (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

318 Seiten

2015 | 2nd Revised edition
Peter Lang Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-906165-51-2 (ISBN)

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This book is the first collection of ethnographies in English on the Japanese communities affected by the giant Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011 and the ensuing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. From life in shelters, to anxiety about exposure to radiation, to encounters with aid-workers and journalists, this volume offers unique insights into the lives of those affected by ‘3.11’.

Four years after the 3.11 disaster in Japan, this acclaimed collection of ethnographies in English on the Japanese communities affected by the giant Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters continues to be the only one of its kind. With a new preface offering an update on the affected communities, this volume brings together studies by experienced researchers of Japan from field sites around the disaster zone. The contributors present the survivors’ struggles in their own words: from enduring life in shelters and temporary housing, through re-creating the fishing industry, to rebuilding life-ways and relationships bruised by bereavement. They contrast the sudden brutal loss of life from the tsunami with the protracted anxiety about exposure to radiation and study the battle to protect children, family and a way of life from the effects of destruction, displacement and discrimination. The local communities’ encounters with volunteers and journalists who poured into Tohoku after the disaster and the campaign to win compensation from the state and nuclear industry are also explored. This volume offers insights into the social fabric of rural communities in north-eastern Japan and suggests how the human response to disaster may be improved in the future.

Contents: Tom Gill/Brigitte Steger/David H. Slater: The 3.11 Disasters – David H. Slater: Urgent Ethnography – Brigitte Steger: Solidarity and Distinction through Practices of Cleanliness in Tsunami Evacuation Shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture – Nathan J. Peterson: Adapting Religious Practice in Response to Disaster in Iwate Prefecture – Johannes Wilhelm/Alyne Delaney: No Homes, No Boats, No Rafts: Miyagi Coastal People in the Aftermath of Disaster – David McNeill: Them versus Us: Japanese and International Reporting of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis – Ikeda Yoko: The Construction of Risk and the Resilience of Fukushima in the Aftermath of the Nuclear Power Plant Accident – Morioka Rika: Mother Courage: Women as Activists between a Passive Populace and a Paralyzed Government – Tom Gill: This Spoiled Soil: Place, People and Community in an Irradiated Village in Fukushima Prefecture – Tuukka Toivonen: Youth for 3.11 and the Challenge of Dispatching Young Urban Volunteers to North-eastern Japan – David H. Slater: Moralities of Volunteer Aid: The Permutations of Gifts and their Reciprocals – Brigitte Steger: Still Missing …

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.2.2015
Verlagsort	Witney
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-906165-51-3 / 1906165513
ISBN-13	978-1-906165-51-2 / 9781906165512
Zustand	Neuware