Culture, Place, and Nature
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Culture, Place, and Nature

Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape

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Culture, Place, and Nature

Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape

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A probe of the environmental and sociocultural effects of industrialization and nuclear disaster on coastal livelihoods Both before and after the 2011 "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tidal wave, and consequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, anthropologist Satsuki Takahashi visited nearby communities, collecting accounts of life and livelihoods along the industrialized seascape. The resulting environmental ethnography examines the complex relationship between commercial fishing families and the Joban Sea—once known for premium-quality fish and now notorious as the location of the world's worst nuclear catastrophe. Fukushima Futures follows postwar Japan's maritime modernization from the perspectives of those most entangled with its successes and failures. In response to unrelenting setbacks, including an earlier nuclear accident at neighboring Tokaimura and the oil spills of stranded tankers during typhoons, these communities have developed survival strategies shaped by the precarity they share with their marine ecosystem. The collaborative resilience that emerges against this backdrop of vulnerability and uncertainty challenges the progress-bound logic of futurism, bringing more hopeful possibilities for the future into sharper focus.

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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780295751351
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Prologue: A Month after 3/11
  9. Introduction: The Removal of Fukushima Future
  10. Chapter 1. Tankers, Clams, and Octopuses
  11. Chapter 2. Survival Conditions
  12. Chapter 3. Mamas’ Elegy
  13. Chapter 4. The (Un)expected
  14. Chapter 5. Fourfold Pain
  15. Chapter 6. Fukushima FORWARD
  16. Chapter 7. In Limbo
  17. Epilogue: The Return of the Octopuses
  18. Notes
  19. Works Cited
  20. Index
  21. Series List