1st Edition
Competing Discourses on Japan’s Nuclear Power Pronuclear versus Antinuclear Activism
By Etsuko Kinefuchi
Copyright 2022
174 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
174 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
174 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines the discursive formation of nuclear power in Japan to provide insights into the ways this technology has been both promoted and resisted, constituting and being constituted by Japan’s sociocultural landscape.
Each chapter pays close attention to a particular discursive site, including newspaper editorials, public relations campaigns, local site fights, urban antinuclear... Read more
- Introduction
- Japan’s Nuclear Power: A Short History
- Mediating Nuclear Power for Citizens: Newspaper Editorials in Shaping Nuclear Power
- Pronuclear Power Discourse: Safe, Indispensable, and Green
- Fighting for Community: Antinuclear Movements at Ground Zero
- Pre-Fukushima Urban Antinuclear Activism: Identity and Sociocultural Challenges
- Fukushima and (Re)claiming the Voices of Democracy
- Fukushima "Under Control": Progress Discourse and Its Excess
- Nuclear Power, Democracy, and Sustainability
Biography
Etsuko Kinefuchi is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and affiliated faculty in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
