Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists : The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after 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
Autor principal: Kimura, Aya Hirata, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Mothers.
Food contamination.
HISTORY / Asia / Japan
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Meres > Japon.
Aliments > Contamination > Japon.
Accident nucleaire de Fukushima, Japon, 2011.
Mothers > Japan.
Food contamination > Japan.
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.
Japan.
Japon > Conditions sociales > 21e siecle.
Japan > Social conditions > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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 (224 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780822373964

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