Summary of SEAA READS, session ten 6/2024
Ryo Morimoto 2023 Nuclear Ghost , The Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520394117/nuclear-ghost Our bookclub discussion in summer again was hosted by Bill Kelly, who crafted a couple of questions for the group to consider ahead of the online conversation. (1) What might be distinctive features and requirements of anthropological fieldwork in a “disaster” site as opposed to what most of us encounter. And (2) what is it that anthropologists, among other researchers, might be contributing to our understandings of 3.11 [Fukushima prefecture's 2011 triple disaster in March] and its aftermath. The book distills its place and time out of the author's dissertation, together with several years involved on the database of the Japan Disasters Archive [ https://jdarchive.org/en ] that was launched to gather the hurricane of online sources during and after the Fukushima disaster from earthquake, tsunami, nuclear radiation release and persisting c...