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Phalkey, Jahnavi. “Science, State Formation and Development: the Organization of Nuclear Research in India, 1938-1959.” Ph. D. diss., Georgia Tech University, 2007. Winner of the Sardar Patel Award (UCLA, 2008) for best dissertation on modern India. This recent dissertation, completed
Editor’s note: This week, we are pleased to feature contributions from Sofia University graduate students enrolled in Tak Watanabe’s 2011 spring semester classes in Tokyo, Japan. Hamblin, Jacob Darwin. 2008. Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste In The Oceans At The Dawn of The
Jasanoff, Sheila, and Sang-Hyun Kim. 2009. “Containing the Atom: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Nuclear Power in the United States and South Korea.” Minerva 47: 119-146. http://www.springerlink.com/content/y2738665782223l6/ By introducing the concept of “sociotechnical imaginaries,” this article examines and compares the historical differences
Edgington, David W. 2010. Reconstructing Kobe: The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity. University of British Columbia Press. [wptabs mode=”horizontal”] [wptabtitle] English[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] … we may not know fully if Kobe has provided Tokyo, or any other Japanese city, with the
Low, Morris, Shigeru Nakayama, and Hitoshi Yoshioka. 1999. “Technology versus Commercial Feasibility: Nuclear Power and Electric Utilities.” In Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan, 66-81. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This article is a chapter of a book coauthored by
Juraku, Kohta, Tatsujiro Suzuki, and Osamu Sakura. 2007. “Social Decision-making Processes in Local Contexts: An STS Case Study on Nuclear Power Plant Siting in Japan.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society 1 (1): 53-75. Available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/51243p18300u0n84/. In contrast to
Smits, Gregory. 2011. “Danger in the Lowground: Historical Context for the March 11, 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami.” The Asia-Pacific Journal 9 (20), May 16. http://www.japanfocus.org/-Gregory-Smits/3531 In the days and weeks following the disaster on March 11, 2011, the Japanese popular press revisited
Nelson, Craig. 2011. “‘The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow’: The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan.” Origins 4 (9) (June). http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/article.cfm?articleid=57. Ohio State University’s online journal Origins (tagline: “Current Events in Historical Perspective”) has published a highly accessible article by
Greene, J. Megan. 2008. “Starts and Stops,” The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan, 14-46. Harvard University Press. For those interested in the origins of nuclear energy research by Japan’s East Asian neighbors, Greene’s history of science policy in
![ARTICLE: Chernobyl’s Survivors: Paralyzed by Fatalism or Overlooked by Science? (2011) [Japanese]](https://www.teach311.org/files/2011/05/bulletin-of-the-atomic-scientists-2011-petryna-30-7.png "ARTICLE: Chernobyl’s Survivors: Paralyzed by Fatalism or Overlooked by Science? (2011) [Japanese]")
Petryna, Adriana. 2011. “Chernobyl’s survivors: Paralyzed by fatalism or overlooked by science?” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 67 (2): 30 -37. DOI: 10.1177/0096340211400177. Available at http://bos.sagepub.com/content/67/2/30.abstract. チェルノブイリ原発事故後のウクライナで調査した人類学者の論文。要旨は、国連などの放射能被害調査では、「危険性への誤った見解から生じるストレスが被害を甚大化させた」という論調で被害の決着化を図るが、1）そのような結論は被曝を回避するためにとった人々の行動と努力を無力化する、2）日本の原爆被害調査を鑑みれば、結論を出すにはさらに長期間を要する、3）ソ連崩壊・市場経済導入で長期にわたるデータ収集が断絶された、4）安全な被曝限度は時代と政治体制の文脈で変化する、5）被害補償を求める身体の政治化が継続している、などの理由で、放射能被害を今後も直視し続ける必要がある、と主張。 This is an article by Adriana Petryna, an anthropologist who conducted field work
Petryna, Adriana. 2011. “Chernobyl’s survivors: Paralyzed by fatalism or overlooked by science?” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 67 (2): 30 -37. DOI: 10.1177/0096340211400177. Available at http://bos.sagepub.com/content/67/2/30.abstract. This is an article by Adriana Petryna, an anthropologist who conducted field work in
Editors’ Note: A new edition of this book was published in 2011 by Asahi Shimbunsha after this annotation was originally posted. Yoshioka, Hitoshi 吉岡斉. 1999. Genshiryoku no shakaishi: sono Nihon-teki tenkai. 原子力の社会史―その日本的展開. Asahi Shinbunsha. 朝日新聞社. Hitoshi Yoshioka gives an overview and
Karan, Pradyumna and Unryu Suganuma, eds. 2008. Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan. University Press of Kentucky. This edited volume consists of a number of interesting essays covering a wide range of issues and
Kim, Seong-Jun. 2009. “Technology Transfer Behind a Diplomatic Struggle: Reappraisal of South Korea’s Nuclear Fuel Project in the 1970s.” Historia Scientiarum 19(2): 184-193. Seong-Jun Kim explores the Nuclear Fuel Project, a failed attempt by the government and scientists of South Korea
原爆投下から原爆医療法ができるまでの期間は被爆者にとって暗黒の十年であったといわれる。このうち七年間、日本はアメリカ軍に占領されていた。本書はこの時期に何があったのかを被曝者を対象とした原爆調査の歴史から検証し、原爆加害国であるアメリカに協力していった原爆被害国日本の加害性を問うものである。
DiMoia, John. “Atoms for Sale? Cold War Institution-Building and the South Korean Atomic Energy Project, 1945-1965.” Technology and Culture 51 (2010): 589-618. DOI: 10.1353/tech.2010.0021 South Korea’s nuclear program has a dynamic history. It began with nuclear technology assistance from the
Atwater, Brian F. et al. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America. U.S. Geological Survey professional paper, 1707. Reston, Va.: U.S. Geological Survey; Seattle: In Association with University of Washington Press, 2005. This
Clancey, Gregory. 2006. Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930. University of California Press. Earthquake Nation provides crucial historical context for understanding more recent outbreaks of “Japanese seismicity” in Kobe (1995) and the Tōhoku and Kanto regions of
Perrow, Charles. 1984, 1999. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. Princeton University Press. This classic of organizational sociology doubles as the cornerstone of a genre sometimes dubbed “disaster studies” and presents crucial insights for scholars of technological accidents and disasters in both
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Kim, Boumsoung 金凡性. 2007. Meiji · Taishō no Nihon no Jishingaku: “Rōkaru · Saiensu” o Koete. 明治・大正の日本の地震学―「ローカル・サイエンス」を超えて [Beyond Local Science: The Evolution of Japanese Seismology During the Meiji and Taisho Eras]. Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai. 東京大学出版会 [Tokyo University Press]. 日本の科学全般が西欧に追いつこうとしていた明治時代、日本の地震学は世界のトップを走っていた。どのようにして日本の地震学が、あるいは地震学者・大森 房吉が世界において中心的な位置に立てたのか、そしてなぜその中心的な位置からはずれたのかをダイナミックに論じる。