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Japan copes with calamity : ethnographies of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters of March 2011 / edited by Tom Gill, Brigitte Steger, and David H. Slater.

Title
Japan copes with calamity : ethnographies of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters of March 2011 / edited by Tom Gill, Brigitte Steger, and David H. Slater.
Publication
  • Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, [2013]
  • © 2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Slater, David H., 1960-
  • Steger, Brigitte, 1965-
  • Gill, Tom, 1960-
Description
xi, 316 pages : maps; 23 cm
Subject
  • Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan
  • Kernkraftwerk Fukushima
  • 2011
  • Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 > Social aspects
  • Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 > Social aspects
  • Nuclear power plants > Accidents > Japan > Fukushima-ken
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction. The 3.11 disasters / Tom Gill, Brigitte Steger and David H. Slater ; Urgent ethnography / David H. Slater -- Coping with life after the tsunami. Solidarity and distinction through practices of cleanliness in tsunami evacuation shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture / Brigitte Steger ; Adapting religious practice in response to disaster in Iwate Prefecture / Nathan J. Peterson ; No homes, no boats, no rafts : Miyagi coastal people in the aftermath of disaster / Johannes Wilhelm and Alyne Delaney -- Coping with life after the nuclear disaster. Them versus us : Japanese and international reporting of the Fukushima nuclear crisis / David McNeill ; The construction of risk and the resilience of Fukushima in the aftermath of the nuclear power plant accident / Ikeda Yoko ; Mother courage : women as activists between a passive populace and a paralyzed government / Morioka Rika ; This spoiled soil : place, people and cummunity in an irradiated village in Fukushima Prefecture -- Insider/outsider encounters. Youth for 3.11 and the challenge of dispatching young urban volunteers to north-eastern Japan / Tuukka Toivonen ; Moralities of volunteer aid : the permutations of gifts and their reciprocals / David H. Slater -- Epilogue. Still missing / Brigitte Steger.
ISBN
  • 3034309228
  • 9783034309226
LCCN
^^2013939853
OCLC
  • 859747215
  • SCSB-12204006
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