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By Aya Hirata Kimura
... happiness justice citizen science ...
Book Chapter

By Aya Hirata Kimura
... citizen science social movement citizenship ...
Book Chapter

By Aya Hirata Kimura
... neoliberalism citizen science gender care ...
Published: 05 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373964-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7396-4
... politics contra policing. The answer to the question of who can be a citizen in citizen science in contemporary Japan seems to be “not many people.” In addition to neoliberal and postfeminist constraints on the idea of proper citizenship, post-Fukushima Japan saw a surge in radical leftist groups that made...
Published: 22 August 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822393849-030
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9384-9
Book Chapter

By Aya Hirata Kimura
Published: 05 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373964-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7396-4
... and shunning of outrage works to obfuscate justice concerns. The chapter calls for citizen science practices that bring justice back into conversations about contamination and food problems. happiness justice citizen science ...
Published: 05 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373964-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7396-4
...-subject that is aligned with neoliberalism, postfeminism, and scientism. This chapter also reviews literature on citizen science, gendering of contamination activism, postfeminism, and these issues in the Japanese contexts. Fukushima nuclear accident neoliberalism postfeminism scientism ...
Published: 05 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373964-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7396-4
..., aspirational neoliberalism made a particular temporal understanding of radioactive materials salient. neoliberalism citizen science gender care ...
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By Kath Weston
Series: ANIMA
Published: 01 January 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7382-7
... science. Some used crowdsourced maps of radioactive hotspots and other digital technologies to disseminate the results of their studies. Citizen science-based initiatives like these can engage in technostruggle , a process in which ordinary people avail themselves of technology to produce knowledge about...
Series: ANIMA
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373827-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7382-7
... used crowdsourced maps of radioactive hotspots and other digital technologies to disseminate the results of their studies. Citizen science-based initiatives like these can engage in technostruggle , a process in which ordinary people avail themselves of technology to produce knowledge about visceral...
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374220-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
... The conclusion explores the ways in which nationalism is both an object of inquiry in anthropology and a methodological challenge. More and more anthropological inquiry is hindered and sometimes made impossible by forms of policing that keep foreign anthropologists out. At the same time citizens...
Published: 15 May 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375463-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7546-3
... individual citizens responsible for ensuring good health by reducing genetic risk may support the wider incorporation of genetic technologies into the neoliberal health care system. The author argues, therefore, that we need a new reproductive dystopia that accounts for the changing political context...
Published: 05 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373964-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7396-4
... to speak up against the government position that no special measures were necessary in the school lunch programs. This chapter describes three strategies that the women activists in the safe school lunch movement used, emphasizing science, motherhood, and hegemonic femininity. Women activists...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 19 January 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7627-9
... virologists framed their work in Cameroon as a global biosecurity issue, based on the idea that new, unknown viruses circulating among local apes and monkeys could pass to humans through the hunting and eating of “bushmeat” by Cameroonian populations. The chapter analyses how local artists and citizens...
Published: 28 November 2000
DOI: 10.1215/9780822380283-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8028-3
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 03 June 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7446-6
... initiatives that set out to teach people directly about a variety of subjects, privileging science and art but gradually extending to incorporate virtually all areas of work and life, creating educational “niche” programming for various social groups. The chapter follows the history of this expansion from...
Published: 05 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373964-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7396-4
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 19 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376279-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7627-9
... framed their work in Cameroon as a global biosecurity issue, based on the idea that new, unknown viruses circulating among local apes and monkeys could pass to humans through the hunting and eating of “bushmeat” by Cameroonian populations. The chapter analyses how local artists and citizens criticized...
Published: 15 May 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7546-3
... the benefits of genetic research to people of color, and media promoting genetic technologies have prominently featured their images. At the same time, the important role of genetic screening that makes individual citizens responsible for ensuring good health by reducing genetic risk may support the wider...
Published: 10 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7305-6
... are revealed in the criminalization measures taken to enforce responsibility, particularly among people living with HIV. Social research also identifies conditions that undermine the realization of good citizens postulated by neoliberal discourse. Market discourse unanchors individual responsibility from...