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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kimura, Aya Hirata, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Moms with radiation brain" : gendered food policing in the name of science
  • Engineering citizens
  • School lunches: science, motherhood, and joshi power
  • Citizen radiation-measuring organizations
  • The temporality of contaminants.

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