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The COVID-19 pandemic in Japan casts a shadow over how we remember this ten-year commemoration of the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011. These two disasters, one a global pandemic and the other a
There have been many theories, discussions and debates about what combination of factors contributed to Japan’s success up until now in preventing uncontrolled spread of COVID-19 and health system collapse. Oft-described as surprising or mysterious by foreign media, this success
Healing Fukushima. 2016. Directed by Sulfikar Amir. Written by Shi-Lin Loh. Healing Fukushima is a documentary exploration of Japanese medical responses to a series of disasters that culminated in the nuclear accidents on 11 March 2011. It depicts how Japanese
Knowles, Scott Gabriel. 2013. The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America. University of Pennsylvania Press. 이 책에서 스캇 놀즈는 미국에서 재난 전문가—보험 감정사, 과학자, 관료, 도시 계획자, 사회과학자 등 다양한 직군의 전문가들—들의 탄생하는 과정을 설명한다. 그는 1860년부터 현재에
ドキュメンタリー映画『ヒバクシャ－世界の終わりに』（2003）、『六ケ所村ラプソディー』（2006）、『ミツバチの羽音と地球の回転』（2010）など、福島原発事故以前から原発問題を追っている鎌仲ひとみ監督による最新作。福島に残ることを選択した母親たちを中心に、子どもを被曝から守るための方法を探る人々の姿が描かれる。キーワードは「保養」である。
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
文章：“ ‘冷静客观的工作’：对原子辐射生物学效应研究的首次协谈” （Hamblin, 2007） Jacob Hamblin, “‘A Dispassionate and Objective Effort’: Negotiating the First Study on the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation,” Journal of the History of Biology 40, no. 1 (March 2007): 147-177. Jacod Hamblin在这篇文章中从一个侧面检查了20世纪50年代对公众环境中安全原子辐射水准进行辩论的历史。文章内容集中在美国国家科学院1956年的报告《原子辐射生物学效应》(Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation,
Lakoff, Andrew, ed. 2010. Disaster and the Politics of Intervention. New York: Columbia University Press. アンドリュー・レイコフ編（2010）『災害と介入における政 治』コロンビア大学出版. 本書は「大災害に至るリスクを軽減するために公共機関によって行われる介入の役割」（1頁~2頁）について様々な観点から論じている専門書である。本書は編者のアンドリュー・レイコフ（南カリフォルニア大学准教授）による序文に加えて以下の論文によって構成されている。 Chapter 1: “Beyond Calculation: A Democratic Response to Risk,” by Sheila Jasanoff. Chapter 2: “Private Choices, Public Harms: The Evolution of National
Editors’ Note: This is a Korean translation of a Teach 3.11 annotation. We invite volunteers to translate and/or contribute content in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese languages. Thank you. (한국어, 일본어, 중국어로 기존의 내용을 번역하거나 새로운 내용을 기고할 자원활동가를 찾고 있습니다.)
Editors’ Note: This is a Korean translation of a Teach 3.11 annotation. We invite volunteers to translate and/or contribute content in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese languages. Thank you. (한국어, 일본어, 중국어로 기존의 내용을 번역하거나 새로운 내용을 기고할 자원활동가를 찾고 있습니다.)
Editors’ Note: This is a Japanese translation of a Teach 3.11 annotation. We invite volunteers to translate and/or contribute content in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese languages. Thank you. 『ノーマル・アクシデント：高危険度技術とともに生きる』 Perrow, Charles. 1984, 1999. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. Princeton University Press.
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
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