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Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Society After Fukushima

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Editors:
  1. Christophe Thouny

    1. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  2. Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto

    1. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

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  • Reframes the debate on Fukushima Japan as a planetary event, across academic disciplines and professional practices
  • Combines cutting-edge works in Japanese urban sociology and readings of literature and visual culture with provocative discussions of media ecologies and environmental crisis
  • Offers a variety of case studies, literary texts along with theoretical discussions of academic practices and discourses on and around Fukushima Japan

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Planetary Atmospheres of Fukushima: Introduction

    • Christophe Thouny
    Pages 1-18

  3. Planetary Thinking After Fukushima

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. “Dying Wisdom” and “Living Madness”: A Comparative Literature of the Errant Star

      • Satoshi Ukai, Philip Kaffen
      Pages 21-27

    3. Nuclear Disaster and Bubbles

      • Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
      Pages 29-50

    4. How Can I Love My Radioactive Tuna? Planetary Love in Shōno Yoriko

      • Christophe Thouny
      Pages 51-70

  5. Literature, Cinema and Love in Fukushima Japan

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. Ecosophy and Planetary Writing: On Chernobyl II

      • Toshiya Ueno
      Pages 131-167

    3. In Time for the War: 3/11 After Cinema

      • Philip Kaffen
      Pages 169-194

    4. The Gesture from Fukushima Daiichi: The Voice in Furukawa Hideo

      • Doug Slaymaker
      Pages 195-205

    5. Conclusion: Capitalism and Atmosphere

      • Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
      Pages 207-209

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 211-218
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About this book

This collection examines the event of Fukushima in Japan in terms of urban sociology and cultural politics to portray the triple catastrophe of March 2011 as both a planetary event and a dual economic and environmental crisis which indelibly marked Japan and the wider global community. The contributors examine how this new situation has been expressed in particular cultural forms (literature, film), political discourses and urban everyday life in Tokyo and Fukushima, arguing for an imperative need to redefine the national frame of analysis in terms of the concept of the planetary. Building on recent debates in ecocriticism, Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Life After Fukushima deconstructs the spatial logic of containment that reduces the event of Fukushima to a place-bound object to instead reinscribe this event within an open narrative of the planetary. This we believe will allow us to redefine our topologies of attachment to local places beside national discourses of unity, resilience and global strategies of risk management, and open the way to a radical rethink of Japan’s cultural politics of Japan after March 2011.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Christophe Thouny

  • Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

    Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto

About the editors

Christophe Thouny is Assistant Professor in the Center for Global Communication Strategies at The University of Tokyo, Japan. His research interests focus on the modern urban experience in Japan in relation with nationalism, globalization, and environmental problems. 

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto is Professor at the School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University, Japan.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Society After Fukushima

  • Editors: Christophe Thouny, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2007-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2006-3Published: 19 January 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9502-3Published: 15 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2007-0Published: 13 January 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 218

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Culture

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