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Author(s) -
POLLERI MAXIME
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1111/amet.12763
Subject(s) - governmentality , radioactive contamination , normative , corporate governance , political science , normalization (sociology) , neoliberalism (international relations) , politics , vision , narrative , hegemony , public administration , sociology , environmental ethics , law , social science , contamination , business , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , finance , anthropology , biology
In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, citizen scientists collectively tracked and monitored residual radioactivity in Japan, legitimizing alternative views to an official assessment of the radioactive contamination. But initial practices of resistance have evolved in collaboration with the official Japanese politics of radioactive governance, supporting hegemonic understandings of radiation danger and normative visions of postdisaster recovery. Civic resources used to resist and reinterpret official narratives of contamination end up reinforcing a state‐sponsored normalization of this disaster. Meanwhile, they become crucial techniques of neoliberal governmentality designed to govern the conduct of populations amid contaminated environments. [ nuclear disaster , radioactive contamination , citizen science , governance , neoliberalism , Fukushima , Japan ]