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We are honored to have permission from Indira Chowdhury to share this essay, written originally as an address to students in Nepal. On 25 April 2015, the Gorkha earthquake destroyed the Madan Puraskar Pustaklalaya Archives (http://madanpuraskar.org). It had also disrupted the
《灾害学》编辑部.《灾害学》. 1986 – Zaihaixue Zazhishe, eds. Zaihaixue (Journal of Catastrophology). 1986 – The Journal of Catastrophology (http://www.zaihaixue.com/) was founded in 1986. As the first Chinese scholarly journal that specialized on the subject of disasters, the publication was an
中尾麻伊香．「近代化を抱擁する温泉 :大正期のラジウム温泉ブームにおける放射線医学の役割」、『科学史研究』52 (2013): 187-199. Nakao, Maika “Kindaika o hōyō suru onsen: Taishō-ki no rajium onsen bu-mu ni okeru hōshasen igaku no yakuwari” Kagakushi Kenkyū 52 (2013):187-199 The author of this article is a historian of science specialising in the history
萧凌波, 黄欢, 魏柱灯. “华北1743-1744 年与1876-1878 年旱灾中的政府粮食调度与社会后果对比.” 灾害学 27, no 1 (2012): 101-106. Xiao, Lingbo, Huan Huang, and Zhudeng Wei. 2012. “Comparing Governmental Food Relief and its Impact on Society during the Droughts of 1743-1744 and 1876-1878 in North China.”
Igarashi, Yasumasa et al. Minna de kimeta “anshin” no katachi: posuto 3.11 no “jisan jishō” o sagashita Kashiwa no ichinen. Aki shobō, 2012. The Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March, 2011 and the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi
Jones, Christopher F. Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America. Harvard University Press, 2014. Routes of Power is a book about the way energy travels and the consequences of its pathways on how we use it and think (or not)
A2-B-C. Directed by Ian Thomas Ash. 2013. (Documentary, 70min.) This documentary by the Japan-resident American filmmaker Ian Thomas Ash focuses on children and parents living in areas of Fukushima prefecture contaminated by radioactivity. Focusing exclusively on these Fukushima families, the director
Project “Sending Books to the Children of Iwaki”: http://atlantic.gssc.nihon-u.ac.jp/~gssc_alumni/project.html (accessed February 28, 2015) This website features an archive of correspondence – email, postal, and pictorial – between the participants of an ongoing project to send books to the children of Iwaki City. Iwaki
Nakagawa, Yasuo. Hōshasen hibaku no rekishi: Amerika genbaku kaihatsu kara Fukushima genpatsu jiko made. Akashi shoten, 2011. Today’s radiation exposure protection standards have been dressed up in scientific garb to convince those compelled to live with radiation from nuclear power
Farías, Ignacio. 2014. “Misrecognizing Tsunamis: Ontological Politics and Cosmopolitical Challenges in Early Warning Systems.” The Sociological Review 62, S1: 61-87. This article examines the debates around the failure of the warning system for the tsunami that occurred in Chile
Erikson, Kai. 1994. A New Species of Trouble: The Human Experience of Modern Disasters. W.W. Norton and Company.* Kai Erikson posits the thesis that the kinds of disasters that increasingly befall contemporary human communities are historically unprecendented. In particular, this
“Earthquake School in the Cloud: Citizen seismologists in Taiwan.” Accessed December 07, 2014. http://.wix.com/earthquake-school. “Taiwan dizhen xueyuan (台灣地震學園).” Accessed December 07, 2014. http://katepili2003.wix.com/future-eq-school. This Taiwan-based website is a resource platform that provides games and stories to educate citizens about seismology,
Yamazaki, Masakatsu. “Nuclear Energy in Postwar Japan and Anti-Nuclear Movements in the 1950s.” Historia Scientiarum 19, no. 2 (2009): 132-145. Masakatsu Yamazaki’s “Nuclear Energy in Postwar Japan,” the product of an international workshop held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology
Aldrich, Daniel P. Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery. University of Chicago Press (2012). In Building Resilience, Daniel P. Aldrich, an associate professor of political science at Purdue University, argues that “high levels of social capital… serve as the
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. Directed by Alison Klayman. 2012. (Documentary, 96 min.) Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry tells the story of Ai Wei Wei, perhaps the most famous Chinese artist on the international art scene today, and his fight against the
Finn, M. “Information Infrastructure and Descriptions of the 1857 Fort Tejon Earthquake,” Information & Culture, volume 48, number 2 (2013): 194-221. A magnitude 7.9 earthquake occured in the San Andreas Fault near Fort Tejon in the morning of January
Gong Liao ni hao ma 貢寮你好嗎. Directed by Tsui Shu-hsin 崔愫欣 . 2004. (Documentary, 89 mins.) Gongliao (貢寮), a fishing village located in the northeast Taiwan, was chosen by the government in the early 1980s to be the location for the Fourth Nuclear Power
By Anto Mohsin PhD Candidate, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University Themes and Rationales: This module is drawn from my undergraduate writing seminar called “Technology and Society: Examining Technological and Natural Disasters,” taught at Cornell University in the Fall 2013.
Morone, Joseph G. and Edward J. Woodhouse. Averting Catastrophe: Strategies for Regulating Risky Technologies (University of California Press, 1986) In their book Morone and Woodhouse seek to explain how some organizations manage to avoid accidents even though they work
Elvin, Mark. “Who Was Responsible for the Weather? Moral Meteorology in Late Imperial China,” in Beyond Joseph Needham: Science, Technology and Medicine in East and Southeast Asia, Osiris, 2nd Series, Volume 13 (University of Chicago Press, 1998), 213-237 Elvin
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