1st Edition
Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age Exploring the Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1. Introduction: The Raison D’être of the Arts in the Nuclear World
Roman Rosenbaum
2. Anti-Nuclear Movements and Education for Peace and Human Rights
Kazuyo Yamane
3. Interrogating the Nuclear Industry, Local and Global: Tsushima Yūko’s Post-3.11 Writing
Barbara Hartley
4. Contemporary Perspectives on the Nuclear World, Seventy-Five Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Manga as Nuclear Art
Roman Rosenbaum
5. Anti-Nuclear Activism Through the Arts in Japan
Yasuko Claremont
6. Hiroshima Museums: Atomic Artifacts on the Seventy-fifth Anniversary
Ann Sherif
7. Silence and Resilience: Commemorating Nagasaki Alongside the ‘Extraordinary Noise’ of the Olympics and Under the Covid-19 ‘Mushroom Cloud’
Gwyn McClelland and Yuki Miyamoto
8. An Apocalypse Through Australian Eyes: the Art and Objets Trouvés of Occupied Hiroshima
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
9. Genbaku Legacy in Post-3.11 Japan: Ōta Yōko and Yoshida Chia
Veronica De Pieri
10. The Unquiet Legacy of Nuclear Testing in French Polynesia
Elizabeth Rechniewski
11. Scientific Activism in the Nuclear Age: Atuhiro Sibatini and the Ranger Uranium Mine
Alexander Brown
12. Epilogue: Celebrating Nuclear Activism and the Power of the Individual
Yasuko Claremont
Biography
Roman Rosenbaum, PhD is an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney, Australia. He specialises in Postwar Japanese Literature, Popular Cultural Studies and translation. His latest research publication includes The Representation of Japanese Politics in Manga:The Visual Literacy of Statecraft (Routledge, 2020).
Yasuko Claremont, PhD in Japanese literature, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, was curator for the exhibition, Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age, April/May 2022 at the Tin Sheds Gallery. Her forthcoming book, The Asia Pacific War: Impact, Legacy, and Reconciliation, will be published by Routledge.
