Produkt
Klappentext"There is a nuclear ghost in Minamisoma." A resident revealed her mysterious experience following the 2011 nuclear fallout in coastal Fukushima. Investigating the nuclear ghost among the graying population, the author encounters radiation's shape-shifting effects on residents' livelihoods, non-human others, and local ecologies at the edges of evacuation zones. What happens if the state authority, scientific experts, and the public dispute over the extent, threshold, and nature of the harm from the accident? The Nuclear Ghost is one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of coastal Fukushima written in English. It offers dazzling stories of a diverse group of residents who aspire to live and die well in their now irradiated homes. The residents' individual determination to recover a series of geographical, social, political, and domestic disintegrations and environmental contamination for the region's intergenerational futurity provides a compelling case study for reimaging relationality and accountability in the ever-atomizing world.