Radiation brain moms and citizen scientists : the gender politics of food contamination after the Fukushima /

Aya Hirata Kimura traces the experiences of citizen scientists-particularly mothers-who after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster collected scientific data that revealed radiation-contaminated food, showing how the Japanese government used neoliberal and traditional gender ideolo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kimura, Aya Hirata, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Temas:
2000-2099
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.
Food contamination > Japan.
Mothers > Japan.
Accident nucléaire de Fukushima, Japon, 2011.
Aliments > Contamination > Japon.
Mères > Japon.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Food contamination
Mothers
Social conditions
Japan > Social conditions > 21st century.
Japon > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
Japan
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Aya Hirata Kimura traces the experiences of citizen scientists-particularly mothers-who after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster collected scientific data that revealed radiation-contaminated food, showing how the Japanese government used neoliberal and traditional gender ideologies to discount and socially sanction these women and their findings.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-199) and index.
ISBN:9780822373964
0822373963

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