Fall-out from Fukushima: Nuclear Evacuees Seeking Compensation and Legal Protection After the Triple Meltdown

ISBN-13: 9781032033006 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 190 str.

Giulia de Togni

Opis

This book shows how the Fukushima plaintiffs have challenged narratives of safety and risk containment produced by TEPCO and the Japanese government through offering new empirical data on risk perceptions and life choices of some nuclear evacuees.

Spis treści

1. The Politics of Risk in a Disaster Archipelago  Part 1: Risk Perceptions, Worldviews, and Individual Choices of Nuclear Evacuees  2. Life After Fukushima  3. Loss of Homeland  4. Food Safety Under the Radiation Threat  Part 2: Collective Civil Actions Against TEPCO and the Government  5. Nuclear Evacuees Seeking Compensation  6. Competing Narratives in the Courtroom  7. Female Plaintiffs Reshaping Gender Inequality  8. The Emancipatory Effects of Fukushima

O autorze

Giulia De Togni is a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on risk, technology, and health. She received her MSc in social anthropology from Oxford University (2015) and a PhD in social anthropology from UCL (2019) with dissertations focused on Fukushima.