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Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Society After Fukushima

Christophe Thouny, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

218 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-10-2006-3 (ISBN)

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This collection examines the event of Fukushima in Japan in terms of urban sociology and cultural politics to portray the triple catastrophe of March 2011 as both a planetary event and a dual economic and environmental crisis which indelibly marked Japan and the wider global community. The contributors examine how this new situation has been expressed in particular cultural forms (literature, film), political discourses and urban everyday life in Tokyo and Fukushima, arguing for an imperative need to redefine the national frame of analysis in terms of the concept of the planetary. Building on recent debates in ecocriticism, Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Life After Fukushima deconstructs the spatial logic of containment that reduces the event of Fukushima to a place-bound object to instead reinscribe this event within an open narrative of the planetary. This we believe will allow us to redefine our topologies of attachment to local places beside national discourses of unity, resilience and global strategies of risk management, and open the way to a radical rethink of Japan’s cultural politics of Japan after March 2011.

Christophe Thouny is Assistant Professor in the Center for Global Communication Strategies at The University of Tokyo, Japan. His research interests focus on the modern urban experience in Japan in relation with nationalism, globalization, and environmental problems. Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto is Professor at the School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University, Japan.

1 "Dying Wisdom" and "Living Madness" by Satoshi Ukai.- 2 Nuclear Disaster and Bubbles by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto.- 3 How can I Love my Radioactive Tuna? Planetary Love in Shono Yoriko by Christophe Thouny.- 4 Brave New Sanriku: Recovering from 3.11 by Ramona Bajema.- 5 From Atomic Fission to Splitting Areas of Expertise: When Politics Prevails Over Scientific Proof by Cecile Asanuma-Brice.- 6 Reconstruction of Marginality: Tokyo Bay Area in the Great East Japan Earthquake by Tadahito Yamamoto.- 7 Ecosophy and Planetary Writing by Toshiya Ueno.- 8 In Time for the War: 3/11 After Cinema by Philip Kaffen.- 9 The Gesture from Fukushima Daiichi; The Voice in Furukawa Hideo by Doug Slaymaker.- Conclusion by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.01.2017
Zusatzinfo	10 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 218 p. 10 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Cultural Politics • Fukushima Japan • Literature, Cinema and Love • Melancholy Ethics • Nuclear disaster • Planetary Open Space • Planetary Thinking • Risk Management
ISBN-10	981-10-2006-X / 981102006X
ISBN-13	978-981-10-2006-3 / 9789811020063
Zustand	Neuware