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...Writing Through Fukushima ...

... Fukushima nuclear accident neoliberalism postfeminism scientism ...

... “Atoms for Peace” campaign Fukushima nuclear meltdown transpacific critique Human Terrain System ruins ...

...-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 ...

... The conclusion of the book takes a cue from the “Happy Fukushima” video to shed light on the mandate to be happy under neoliberalism. Happiness is an appropriate emotion under neoliberalism, particularly for women, who are culturally required to be nice and friendly. Yet the mandate to be happy...

... The epilogue brings the book’s overarching discussions on historical justice to a close through a reflection on the Fukushima nuclear meltdown and the lethal Cold War legacies of the “Atoms for Peace” campaign it embodies. The concluding analyses extend consideration of the illegibility...

... and gained a new sense of urgency with the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor, the chapter follows especially the work of Azuma Hiroki. It detects shifts in the way Azuma and his group deal with the problem of mediation and suggests that these shifts are closely tied to the manner in which media...

... This chapter examines the case of the safe school lunch movement (which was highly feminized) that demanded the government ensure the safety of the public school lunch program after the Fukushima accident. Food policing and the charge of fūhyōhigai made it difficult for women in the movement...

... 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...

... with irrational fearmongering. As evident in the post-Fukushima neologism “radiation brain mom,” the implicit target of fūhyōhigai policing was women, understood as having an irrational “radiation brain,” being antiscience, and overreacting. With its strong shaming effects, such food policing made many women’s...

... to the 2010s, suggesting a return to a consideration of theories of mediation—this time in the contemporary moment, and in relation to questions of social change. Focusing on the “lost decades” and the sense of crisis that began in the 1990s and gained a new sense of urgency with the meltdown at the Fukushima...