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Planetary atmospheres and urban society after Fukushima
Abstract
This collection examines the events of Fukushima in Japan in terms of urban sociology and cultural politics, both as a planetary event and a dual economic and environmental crisis which indelibly marked Japan and the wider global community. It considers what cultural forms can express this situation, problematizing the national frame of analysis in terms of the concept of the planetary. Building on recent debates in ecocriticism and debating the spatial logic of containment that reduces the event of Fukushima to a place-bound object argues for a close-reading of cultural texts and local urban practices in Fukushima Japan to articulate different narratives of the planetary and redefine our topologies of attachment to local places beside national discourses of unity, resilience and global strategies of risk management, opening the way to a rethink of Japan’s cultural politics of Japan after March 2011.
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introduction
pp.1-18
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2007-0_1a comparative literature of the errant star
pp.21-27
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2007-0_2planetary love in Shōno Yoriko
pp.51-70
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2007-0_4recovering from 3.11
pp.73-94
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2007-0_5when politics prevails over scientific proof
pp.95-112
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2007-0_6the tokyo bay area in the great East Japan earthquake
pp.113-127
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2007-0_7on Chernobyl II
pp.131-167
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2007-0_83/11 after cinema
pp.169-194
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2007-0_9the voice in Furukawa Hideo
pp.195-205
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2007-0_10capitalism and atmosphere
pp.207-209
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2007-0_11Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2017
Pages: 218
ISBN (hardback): 978-981-10-2006-3
ISBN (digital): 978-981-10-2007-0
Full citation:
Thouny Christophe, Yoshimoto Mitsuhiro (2017) Planetary atmospheres and urban society after Fukushima. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.