Slides for Teaching “Disaster” in the Classroom: A Workshop with Teach 3.11

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Teach 3.11 held a workshop on Teaching “Disasters” for the Nuclear Power in Asia: Two Years after Fukushima symposium, hosted at the National University of Singapore, 22 March 2013. Here, we post the presentation slides so you can view what we discussed in this very successful meeting. A hearty thank you to all our participants near and far who submitted teaching materials that helped spur much lively and productive conversation about the future of teaching about disasters and the Teach 3.11 project more generally. To get involved, talk to us at teach3eleven@gmail.com or via Twitter, @Teach_311.

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Teach 3.11 held a workshop on Teaching "Disasters" for the Nuclear Power in Asia: Two Years after Fukushima symposium, hosted at the National University of Singapore, 22 March 2013. Join the conversation at teach3eleven@gmail.com.

Teach 3.11 held a workshop on Teaching “Disasters” on 22 March 2013 for the Nuclear Power in Asia: Two Years after Fukushima symposium, hosted by the STS Research Cluster at the National University of Singapore. Join the conversation at teach3eleven@gmail.com.

Buku: Kepulauan Beracun (2010)

Buku: Kepulauan Beracun (2010)

Judul Asli: Walker, Brett. 2010. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan. University of Washington Press.

WALTOXBuku yang mudah dibaca ini menawarkan narasi inovatif tentang hubungan antara bangsa, penderitaan, dan polusi industri. Walker memaparkan analisa tajam atas sejumlah kasus dalam sejarah Jepang, seperti tambang tembaga Ashio di era Meiji, penyakit Minamata, dan Itai-itai (“sakit, sakit”) yang terjadi di periode setelah Perang Dunia Kedua. Menurut Walker, penyebab hibrida (hybrid causation) melemahkan perbedaan proses penyebab “alami” dan “sosial” atau “manusia” untuk merumitkan “peran politik manusia, ekonomi, teknologi, budaya dalam polusi linkungan dan penyakit industri” (hal. xiv). Cara Walker menggabungkan isu-isu yang biasanya ditelaah secara terpisah ini membuat ulasannya sangat luas. Pembaca yang tidak siap akan mendapatkan narasi buku Walker sedikit membingungkan, tetapi dengan pendekatan yang menggunakan studi kasus memberi nilai pembelajaran yang dapat membantu mahasiswa memahami berbagai sudut pandang analisa dalam melihat kejadian sejarah polusi industri secara lebih mendalam.

Salah satu yang menarik di buku Walker adalah pengamatannya mengenai perbedaan-perbedaan antara pemikiran linkungan orang Amerika dan orang Jepang, yang menurutnya dipengaruhi oleh kata-kata yang tersusun di dalam Hukum Dasar Kontrol Polusi (Basic Law for Pollution Control) tahun 1967.  Menurutnya hukum Jepang menargetkan “lingkungan hidup” (seikatsu kankyō) ketimbang “alam liar” seperti yang terjadi di Amerika.  Yang pertama “terdiri dari alam dan organisme-organisme yang membentuk habitat manusia,” sedangkan yang kedua “merupakan tempat di mana manusia tidak termasuk di dalamnya”  (hal. 217). Walaupun Walker tidak menghubungkannya secara langsung dengan konsep yang dia tawarkan “penyebab hibrida”, dia beragumen bahwa konsep itu mewakili sebagian yang perlu dipelajari dari kasus-kasus sejarah yang dia tulis di bukunya. Mungkin ucapan Walker yang paling kontroversial dalam bukunya—dan ini sangat bergunan untuk mengajak murid-murid untuk berdiskusi—adalah pandangan buruknya mengenai masa depan masalah lingkungan. Dia berujar, “Saya tidak yaking kita sebagai suatu spesies, dapat menyelesaikan masalah-msalah ini  dalam waktu singkat, bahkan mungkin tidak sama sekali” (hal. 223).

Walaupun buku ini, yang diterbitkan tahun 2010, jelas tidak menyebutkan bencana nuklir di Jepang, implikasi dari konsep “penyebab hibrida” dapat ditarik dari ranah polusi industri ke ranah kecelakaan nuklir dan apa yang biasa disebut “bencana alam”.  Buku ini sangat bermanfaat sebagai materi pembelajaran, terutama untuk mahasiswa S1.

- Yoshiyuki Kikuchi diterjemahkan oleh Anto Mohsin

本:夢の原子力 Atoms for Dream (2012)

Yoshimi Yume-no-genshiryoku cover吉見俊哉.2012.夢の原子力 Atoms for Dream.東京:筑摩書房

福島第一原発事故以降、ドワイト・アイゼンハワー元米大統領による「アトムズ・フォー・ピース」(平和のための原子力)政策が日本の原子力政策に与えた影響について様々な研究が行われてきた。著者の吉見俊哉(東京大学大学院情報学環教授)は、本書でこの「アトムズ・フォー・ピース」という米国の世界戦略を日本に暮らす人々が受容していくプロセスを描いている。

本書の問いは次の通り。「アメリカの世界戦略としてみれば「アトムズ・フォー・ピース」として語られ、表現されたことは、同時代の日本の諸地域、諸階層、諸世代、異なるジェンダーの人々からみたときに、いかなる夢、すなわち「アトムズ・フォー・ドリーム」として経験されたのか。アイゼンハワーのしたたかな作戦の言語は、同時代の東アジアの旧帝国主義国、そしてまた敗戦国でもある列島に住まう人々のいかなる欲望の言語に変換されていったのか」(39頁)。

著者によると、日本による「夢」としての原子力の受容には、3つないしは4つのタイプの言説の操作が伴われていたという(288-291頁)。第一が「救済」という言説を伴った原子力の受容。「日本は広島と長崎の被爆により、原子力の軍事利用の悲惨さを身をもって経験した。まさにそうであるが故に、日本人はこの原子力の軍事利用に反対し、平和利用を推進しなければならないのだという主張」(288頁)である。第二が「成長」という言説を伴った原子力の受容。資源が乏しい上に敗戦国である島国日本が、経済を成長させるためには原子力のような「夢」のエネルギーが必要不可欠だという「生産力主義の主張」(289頁)である。第三に「幸福」という言説を伴った原子力の受容。原子力は便利で豊かな生活をもたらすというイメージの中で、「何らかの論理によって「夢」の受容が正当化されるのではなく、「夢」そのものの圧倒的な魅力によって過去を忘れ去り、原子力的な「暖かさ」のなかに自分たちの生活を浸からせていくことが正当化される」(290頁)というもの。最後に、70年代半ば以降になると「原子力が「クリーン」で自然と「調和」したエネルギー」(291頁)であるという言説が登場したという。本書の構成は以下の通り。

序章 放射能の雨 アメリカの傘

第I章 電力という夢―革命と資本のあいだ
一 革命としての電気
二 電力を飼いならす
三 総力戦と発電国家

第II章 原爆から原子力博へ
一 人類永遠の平和と繁栄へ
二 列島をめぐる原子力博
三 ヒロシマと原子力博
四 冷戦体制と「原子力の夢」

第III章 ゴジラの戦後 アトムの未来
一 原水爆と大衆的想像力
二 記憶としてのゴジラ
三 ゴジラの変貌とアトムの予言

終章 原子力という冷戦の夢

あとがき

参考文献

本書は一般の読者向けに書かれているものの、福島第一原発事故の原因について様々な見地から詳細に説明している。高校生以上のテキストとしてのぞましい。

-Yasuhito Abe

FILM: Nuclear Nation (2012)

Funahashi, Atsushi. 2012. Nuclear Nation. Documentary film.
http://nuclearnation.jp/en/

“Atomic energy makes our town and society prosperous,” reads a sign over a
prominent archway in the small town of Futaba, Fukushima. The camera pans over a
grey landscape of rubble, empty public buildings, and dozens of cows lying deceased and
mummified in barn stalls. Such scenes in Nuclear Nation render the declared
benevolence of atomic energy painfully ironic. They also make clear director Atsushi
Funahashi’s intent: to situate Japan’s present nuclear disaster within the context of
Japan’s promising nuclear past.

Funahashi explores Japan’s changing relationship with nuclear energy solely
through the eyes of Futaba residents. As the mayor of the town shows the camera old
photographs, we learn that Futaba welcomed Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)
and its nuclear energy plans in the 1960s. With a nuclear plant, explains the mayor, came
generous government subsidies, and Futaba quickly morphed from a small farming
village to a modern city supported by a major industry. However, the value of the plants
quickly depreciated and Futaba was on the verge of bankruptcy. In the 1990s the town
accepted two new plants and TEPCO’s promises of payment—the latter of which never
materialized—in an effort to pull itself out of debt. This narrative of the past, which
brings us up to the 2011 disaster, sheds light on the complicated but intricate relationship
that Futaba’s people and local government, like other small nuclear towns, have had with
the nuclear energy industry and its leading power companies.

Funahashi documents a radically changed attitude toward nuclear energy in a
post-3/11 world by following the people of Futaba for a year, beginning in the immediate
aftermath of the disaster. His focus on one town’s experience is a strength of the film, for
it allows Funahashi to explore the effects of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster on both a
community and an individual level. He highlights a handful of residents, weaving their
individual stories together as they experience a year of unfamiliarity, grief, anger, and,
surprisingly, optimism and acceptance. Forced to evacuate their town and seek refuge in
a high school, more than a thousand residents must sleep in the school’s gymnasium and
eat nothing but bento. The television seems to always be on and tuned into a station
playing national news about the disaster, none of which mentions Futaba. The residents
later stage a protest against the Liberal Democratic Party and TEPCO for their general
negligence. Throughout all of this Funahashi records incredible interviews; the residents
candidly express their past reliance on nuclear power and present frustration with the
industry, government, and options for the future—none of which fulfill the residents’
desire to return to their “homeland.”

This narrative allows Nuclear Nation to address many questions, but perhaps most
significant is the question of when disaster begins and ends. By taking us back in time,
Funahashi places a potential starting point for Fukushima at the arrival of nuclear power
in the region forty years ago. His view of an ending point is a little less clear; he
documents the disaster for a year but leaves the residents’ stories open-ended and their
new lives in new places unsettled. Nevertheless, by the end of the film it becomes clear
that Nuclear Nation is not a story about triumphing over disaster—that is, not a story with
a happy ending; rather, it is a story about the break-up of a community and the making of
an environmental ghost town. For educators and students who wish to learn about the
aftermath of Fukushima, about Japan’s forty-year history with nuclear energy, and about
the nature of disaster more generally, Nuclear Nation is an excellent choice.

-Ashanti Shih

Post-Fukushima Nuclear Politics in Japan

Aldrich, Daniel, James Platte, and Jennifer Jennifer. “Post-Fukushima Nuclear Politics in Japan, Part I.” Blog. The Monkey Cage, April 1, 2013. http://themonkeycage.org/2013/04/01/post-fukushima-nuclear-politics-in-japan-part-i/.

In this three-part blog post, Daniel Aldrich, James Platte, and Jennifer Sklarew summarize development in Japanese politics, bureaucratic organization, and the anti-nuclear protest movement since March 2011. The authors outline the tensions caused by the plummet in popular support for nuclear power and the technological momentum created by heavy investments in nuclear power by utilities and business, which necessitate their continued support. The political parties are caught between these rival concerns, further complicating an already complex policy debate. The authors provide a clear discussion of the bureaucratic reorganization resulting in the newly independent Nuclear Regulatory Authority, which has to balance pressure from politicians and the business community to restart the now idle reactors and the need to reform nuclear regulation that has long been lax and has repeatedly lost credibility since the 90s.

These blog posts are relatively short, about 1,000 words each, and should be fairly accessible to people without much background in Japanese politics. Since these posts provide multiple viewpoints, they should provide a catalyst for classroom debate and discussion, as well as provide an excellent overview of a set of complicated issues. The focus of these posts is on the national debate over the future of nuclear power in Japan, so supplementary materials related to the direct impact of nuclear disaster on the people and environment of Fukushima might be a useful supplement for classroom work.

-Craig Nelson, Ohio State University

Inaugural Meeting of the Forum (UC Berkeley, May 2013)

Building a Transnational Research Agenda and Strategy for Engagement through a Social Scientific Understanding of Disasters and the Disaster Sciences

INAUGURAL MEETING
University of California Berkeley
12-14 May 2013

OPEN COMMENT PERIOD
April 26-May 3

(Manuscripts will be posted on Friday, April 26th, and will be OPEN TO PUBLIC COMMENT during this period)

Through the support of the US National Science Foundation and generous contributions of the private Support Group for the STS Forum, we are holding the inaugural meeting of the “STS Forum on the 2011 Fukushima/East Japan Disaster,” as hosted by the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS). This is an academic forum for discussing the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear accident and the larger 2011 East Japan disaster. The goal of this forum is to build a transnational research agenda and community centered on this disaster, and to extend the social scientific and humanistic understanding of disasters and the disaster sciences. For the inaugural meeting, we have also invited scholars studying other disasters. See…

The original call for papers here
The workshop format, based on pre-circulated papers
The preliminary program
See all abstracts for papers

Manuscripts* will also be posted on this site and will be visible and open to public comment during the open comment period. (*At the discretion of the author. All manuscripts will be distributed to registered participants.)

Please note that this is a pre-circulated papers workshop, with participants selected based on abstracts received. We aim to extend the opportunity to all viewers to read and comment on the publicly posted manuscripts, however, workshop registration is limited to those participating in the workshop.

- Posted on behalf of STS Fukushima Forum

Teaching ‘Disasters’ in the Classroom: A Workshop

Teaching “Disaster” in the Classroom: A Workshop with Teach 3.11

Date: 22 March 2013
Time: 2:00 – 3:30pm
Workshop leader: Lisa Onaga (Nanyang Technological University)
Deadline for submitting materials: 15 March 2013
Venue: Research Division Seminar Room (AS7-06-42), Level 6, The Shaw Foundation Building, National University of Singapore,
To register, please email fasvksg@nus.edu.sg

The somber occasion of the second anniversary of the three disasters that struck eastern Japan in 2011 is a reminder that the work of teaching and learning about natural and manmade disasters from the perspectives of history of science and technology and science studies is far from complete.

Teach 3.11 is an activity of the Forum for the History of Science in Asia, a special interest group of the History of Science Society, that seeks to bring attention to the processes of building institutional and collective memory and understandings of disaster through science studies (defined broadly) perspectives. In conjunction with the FASS STS Cluster at National University of Singapore’s symposium, Nuclear Power In Asia: Two Years After Fukushima, we propose jointly to host a workshop to think through how we teach about “disasters” in the classroom, and to help us imagine other ways of gaining understandings of “disasters” both contemporary and historical.

We invite scholars, teachers, educators, and students to join us in a conversation around teaching and learning about natural and manmade disasters in classrooms through the lens of science studies and the history of science and technology. We also invite participants to come together and identify new opportunities and needs for teaching in this interdisciplinary area.

Ideally, we would like workshop participants to bring one or more of the following to this workshop: (a) an original syllabus for a university course engaged with themes related to disaster, (b) a suite of readings in any language at the secondary, junior, and university levels on a particular disaster-related topic; or (c) an active learning module on a disaster-related theme or issue. Deadline for submission is 15 March 2013 (Friday) to fasvksg@nus.edu.sg.

Appreciating that not many of us may have taught such a course or prepared such materials, we ask you to put together a paragraph on the kinds of issues, questions, and, cases that you think ought to be part of such a teaching programme. We intend to use this short 90-minute session to share these materials and to learn from each other through discussion and dialogue.

We would like to leave this workshop with a heightened sense of the possibilities inherent in teaching about disaster, as well as practical materials and ideas about how to structure our courses and modules. The newly redesigned Teach 3.11 site is willing to host the final versions of these materials to make them accessible to multiple communities.

This workshop, we hope, will also provide grounds for discussing the broader role that Teach 3.11 may play in continuing to support a space for exchanging knowledge and building collective wisdom as it looks to find ways to provide access to materials using various Asian languages as well as English. Thus, we also invite participants to help us envision where to take Teach 3.11 in its next phase of development.

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3.11 Virtual Conference: Building a Bridge to Disaster Studies

Based on our very successful event last year, the STS Forum on the 2011 Fukushima/East Japan Disaster and Teach 3.11 have organized another co-sponsored, online virtual conference to be held on the second memorial anniversary of the disaster:

STS Forum on the 2011 Fukushima/East Japan Disaster & Teach 3.11
3.11 Virtual Conference: Building a Bridge to Disaster Studies

An online pre-circulated papers workshop, with scheduled open comment period
11-14 March 2013
All participants welcome!

In the two years since the disaster, the scholarship on the disaster has continued to mature. This year, while we continue to welcome, and will be presenting new empirical material, we have also gathered featured essays that will help build a bridge between our understanding of the East Japan Disaster and the emerging work in the broader field of Disaster Studies.

At 8:00 a.m. JST, on March 11th (7:00 p.m. EDT on March 10th in the US), we will open up the conference by posting a collection of featured essays.* We expect to have essays by

  • Cecilia Ioana Manoliu (University of Tsukuba) on recovery and resilience after the 3.11 earthquake
  • Marja Ylönen (University of Jyväskylä) on signaled and silenced aspects of nuclear regulation
  • Markku Lehtonen (University of Sussex) on a comparative study of reactions to Fukushima
  • Tino Bruno (Univ. Jean Moulin) on US and French advocacy of civilian nuclear power
  • Charlotte Cabasse (University of California, Berkeley) on the mapping and making of risk
  • David Novak (UC Santa Barbara) on performing antinuclear movements on post-3.11 Japan
  • Noriko Manabe (Princeton University) on music and spaces of protest
  • Chika Watanabe (Cornell University) on the ambiguity of lessons in post-disaster recovery
  • Xiaomin Zhu (Peking University) on science communication for science literacy
  • Yuko Kobayashi (Anti-nuclear activist) on the Environmental Radioactivity Monitoring Project in the vicinity of Fukushima Dai-ichi
  • Yuji Miyake (professional engineer) on radiation dispersion
  • Atsushi Akera (Rensselaer) and on synopses of the 2012 SHOT Workshop and 4S annual meeting

In addition to providing an opportunity for everyone to comment on these essays, we will also encourage everyone to post their own thoughts and to introduce their own work through the Fukushima Forum Google Groups site (the Forum will be made open for the duration of the Virtual Conference). *Please bookmark http://fukushimaforum.wordpress.com/online-forum-2/second-3-11-virtual-conference-2013/

Our hope is that the virtual conference will continue to provide people with an opportunity to mark anniversary of the March 11, 2011 disasters with a time of reflection, scholarly inquiry, and open conversation.  Please join us in this conversation.

Sincerely,
Atsushi Akera (Rensselaer Polytechnic University)
Principal organizer, STS Forum on the 2011 Fukushima/East Japan Disaster

Lisa Onaga (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Managing Editor, Teach 3.11

We’re upgrading and want your input!

Teach 3.11 is upgrading and moving to a new server at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. We’re planning to roll out a substantial redesign in March 2013 with greater technological capacity using WordPress 3.5. Your input is important to us, so please contact us by the end of December 2012 to suggest any improvements or new content that you would like to see. In the meanwhile, pardon our dust. Thank you!

- Teach 3.11 team

Call for Papers: STS Forum on the 2011 Fukushima / East Japan Disaster

Call for Papers

An NSF Supported Workshop

STS Forum on the 2011 Fukushima / East Japan Disaster

Building a Transnational Research Agenda and Strategy for Engagement through a Social Scientific Understanding of Disasters and the Disaster Sciences

INAUGURAL MEETING

University of California Berkeley
12-14 May 2013

This serves as the call for papers and for participants to the inaugural meeting of the “STS Forum on Fukushima,” an academic forum for discussing the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear accident and the larger 2011 East Japan disaster. The goal of this forum is to build a transnational research agenda and community centered on this disaster, and to extend the social scientific and humanistic understanding of disasters and the disaster sciences; for this inaugural meeting, we also invite scholars studying other disasters (Chernobyl, Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, 9/11, Deepwater Horizon, as well as less well-known disaster), especially those who are interested in understanding disasters and the events in Japan in historical and comparative perspective. All scholars representing, or interested in engaging in active dialogue with those in the field of Science and Technology Studies, broadly construed, are invited to apply.

The aim of the inaugural meeting in Berkeley will be to bring together a community of interested scholars, introduce each other to our work in a focused setting, and to begin defining viable research strategies and alliances for pursuing future work. We also hope to constitute an informal publications committee that will begin exploring and cultivating specific venues for publication, including journal special issues and edited compilations.

Participants &Scope

The 2-½ day workshop will be held on the University of California, Berkeley campus, hosted by its Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society. We expect to draw scholars from Japan, the United States, Asia and Europe, and elsewhere in the world. We invite both senior and junior scholars (including graduate students), and hope to offer sufficient subsidies to make it possible for all those who are interested and selected to attend. Attendance will be limited to 30 participants.

While the major focus of the inaugural meeting will be the 2011 disaster in Japan, as we have noted above, we also wish to invite scholars who are working on other disasters in order to develop and strengthen the conceptual foundations upon which to base our understanding of the events in Japan, and to help ensure that our dialogue integrates into the wider disaster and disaster science studies community.

Workshop Format

The inaugural meeting of the Forum will be conducted as a pre-circulated papers workshop. Work in progress is positively encouraged. All papers will be of limited length,* with the accompanying expectation that all participants will both read and comment on all papers or précis’ prior to the workshop. (*1800-3000 words, or else a 1800 word précis accompanied by a longer manuscript made available to all participants.) Open discussion around a group of papers, organized into themes, will occur following an introduction of the papers by assigned respondents. The workshop will conclude with an open discussion on research directions and publication strategies. Per the terms of our grant proposal, written responses and reflections compiled both during and after the event will be an integral and required component of this workshop.

Travel Subsidies

Through the generous support of our NSF workshop grant (SES-1230627), we will minimally offer full housing subsidies to all participants. It is our intent to provide additional subsidies based on need, with special set-asides for graduate students, junior, and minority scholars, and those traveling internationally for this event. (A separate travel subsidy request form will be mailed to you following your acceptance to the workshop.)

Application & Deadline

To apply, please submit a 300-500 word abstract, and a 1-2 page biographic summary (an NSF-style biosketch would be ideal). The materials should be sent to the program chair, Atsushi Akera, at akeraa@rpi.edu (alternate: atsushi_akera@hotmail.com). Applications are due by 7 January 2013, and will be reviewed by a program committee comprised of an international panel of scholars. Please feel free to contact the program chair for further information.

We’re upgrading and want your input!

Teach 3.11 is upgrading and moving to a new server at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. We’re planning to roll out a substantial redesign in January 2013 with greater technological capacity. Your input is important to us, so please contact us by the end of December 2012 to suggest any improvements or new content that you would like to see. In the meanwhile, pardon our dust. Thank you!

- Teach 3.11 team

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Disasters, 18-23 Sept. 2012

Teach 3.11 cordially invites you to join an online discussion
18-23 September 2012
to discuss publicly posted manuscripts for the workshop
Historical and Contemporary Studies of Disasters:
Placing Chernobyl, 9/11, Katrina, Deepwater Horizon, Fukushima and Other Events in Historical and Comparative Perspective

 Click here to view and comment on the manuscripts

Co-Sponsored by the SHOT Prometheans (Engineering) SIG, SHOT Asia Network, and Teach 3.11

FILM: Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Promotional Documentary (1985) [Japanese]

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. We begin with a film translation and subtitling project of a Japanese documentary that details the construction of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.*

Nichiei Kagaku Eiga Seisakujo. 日映科学映画製作所 [Nichiei Science Film Production]. 1985. Fukushima no Genshiryoku. 福島の原子力 [Nuclear Power of Fukushima]. YouTube video, 27:00, posted originally by “habingo2,” April 02, 2011, part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sspp6D8giHc, part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTshYXmN1AY (Japanese). English subtitled version by Kudakwashe Mutenda and Keiko Nishimura, posted by “collabo311.” 13 September 2011. 
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFkkRr-gMww, Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E90DeDzpus.

前代未聞の福島原子力事故の実情が徐々に明らかになるにつれて、「福島原子力発電所はどのくらい安全だったのか?」という疑問が今日最も聞かれるようになった。この1987年に東京電力によって製作された27分に及ぶ福島原子力発電所の宣伝映画は、少なくとも東京電力の立場から、その質問に答える以上の内容となっている。一般市民に向け、平易かつ分かりやすい言葉で、原子力技術の複雑な仕組みが説明されている。

この宣伝映画は雄弁に福島原子力発電所の歴史を語っていく。建設場所の選択から建設過程、諸系統の試験、燃料装荷と起動試験、保守点検、労働者と周辺地域のための安全基準、放射能や放射性廃棄物の処理などについてが説明される。映画全体を通して、原子力発電所とその環境の調和を表現するために様々なBGMが使われており、原子力発電所の建設過程や営業運転、そして福島での人々の生活を撮影した写真・実写映像やアニメーションが効果的に組み合わされ、視聴者の理解を助けるようになっている。

本映画全体を通して、安全性というものは決して軽視されてはいない。「用心深く」「徹底的に」「注意深く」「ひとつひとつを」「厳しく監視」などの言葉の使われ方からもそれは明らかだ。1966年の建設当時、福島原子力発電所は疑い無く世界で最も技術を結集した、安全性の権化のような驚くべき建設物であった。

一般向けに作られていることからも分かるように、この宣伝映画は分かりやすく親しみやすい内容となっている。本作は当時劇場で公開され、多くの日本人が見に訪れたと言われている。

クダ∙ムテンダ & 西村恵子

*This documentary was translated and subtitled as a part of a course assignment in the Graduate Program in Global Studies at Sophia University. The resulting subtitled video is hosted by a collaborative web project organized by Sophia University graduate students, collabo311, of which one of the translators of the Fukushima power plant video, Keiko Nishimura, is a member.  Collabo311 reports on and analyzes cultural reactions to the events of 3.11 and includes various media, from Internet to architecture, spanning topics from radiation to animation.

단행본: 유독한 열도 (2010)

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.)

Walker, Brett. 2010. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan. University of Washington Press.

브렛 워커. 2010. <유독한 열도: 일본 산업병의 역사>. 워싱턴 대학 출판부.

이 책은 국가와 고통과 산업공해 사이의 다면적인 관계를 혁신적이고 이해하기 쉬운 이야기로 담아내고 있다. 브렛 워커(Brett Walker)는 일본 역사에서 잘 알려져 있는 메이지 시대 아시오 구리광산 오염사건과 전후에 일어난 미나마타병과 이타이 이타이 (“아프다 아프다”)병의 발병과 같은 사건에 대한 새로운 해석을 제공한다. 그의 핵심 개념인 “혼합 인과관계(hybrid causation)”는 “인간의 정치, 경제, 기술, 그리고 문화가 환경 오염과 산업 질병에 끼치는 영향”의 복잡성을 드러내기 위하여, “자연적”인 요소와 “사회적” 혹은 “인간적” 요소들이 원인을 제공하는 과정들의 구분을 약화시킨다(xiv쪽). 이와 같이 학자들이 따로 연구했을 법한 이슈들을 의도적으로 조합하여, 저자의 이야기는 대단히 광범위하게 확장된다. 이에 준비되지 않은 독자들은 처음에 갈피를 못 잡을 수도 있으나, 다양한 사례들을 포함하고 있는 워커의 접근법은 학생들이 산업 공해에 대하여 맥락화된 역사적 이해를 하고자 할 때 이용할 수 있는 다양한 분석 각도를 배울 수 있도록 도움으로써 교육적인 가치를 지닌다.

워커가 관찰한 미국과 일본의 환경철학의 전통의 차이는 매우 흥미롭다. 그에 의하면, 이 차이점이 1967년 통과된 일본의 공해대책기본법의 문구에 영향을 끼쳤다. 그는 일본의 법은 “대자연”(wilderness)이 아니라 “생활 환경”(生活 環境, seikatsu kankyō)을 대상으로 하고 있음을 지적하였다. 전자는 “인간이 없는 곳을 상징한다”면 후자는 “인간 거주와 가장 밀접하게 연관되어 있는 경관과 생물체들로 구성되어 있다”(217쪽). 비록 저자가 “혼합 인과관계”와 명백한 연결을 짓고 있지는 않지만, 일본의 개념은 이 책에 소개되어 있는 역사적 사건들로부터 받은 교훈들을 부분적으로 학습한 것이라고 주장한다. 아마 가장 논란의 여지가 많은 – 그렇기 때문에 학생들의 토론을 불러일으키는 데 유용한 – 점은 저자가 가지고 있는 미래의 환경 문제에 대한 다소 우울한 관점이다. 그는 이렇게 적고 있다: “나는 하나의 종(species)으로서 우리가 이와 같은 문제들을 당장 해결할 수 있을 것이라고 생각하지 않는다. 아마 전혀 해결할 수 없을지도 모른다”(223쪽).

2010년에 출간된 이 책에는 당연히 2011년에 일어난 재난에 대한 언급은 없지만, “혼합 인과관계”가 주는 함의는 분명히 산업 공해의 범주를 벗어나서 핵 사고와 소위 “자연” 재해라고 불리는 것의 영역에까지 확장된다. 특히 대학의 학부 수업의 읽기 자료로 강하게 권장한다.

- Yoshiyuki Kikuchi. Translation by YeonSil Kang

本:「フクシマ」論 (2011)

開沼博(2011)『「フクシマ」論:原子力ムラはなぜ生まれたのか』青土社

本書は日本の原子力の分析を通して日本の戦後成長における地方の自発的服従の歴史的形成過程を考察した学術書である。著者は、原子力を地方に導入したい「中央」とその原子力を受け入れ維持したい「地方」によって構成される原子力ムラという概念を提示しながら、「戦後成長の基盤」としての原子力(経済)「地方の統治装置」としての原子力(政治)「幻想のメディア」としての原子力(文化)という視座から、戦後日本における原子力を分析している。原子力ムラには、行政・電力産業・政治家・学者・マスメディア・反・脱原発団体などを含む「中央の側にある閉鎖的・保守的な原子力行政」などで構成されたムラ(<原子力ムラ>と表記)がある一方で、「地方の側にある原発および関連施設を抱える地域」によって構成されたムラ(「原子力ムラ」と表記)が存在する。著者によれば、原子力の導入を通して自国のエネルギー資源の確保を目指す<原子力ムラ>(中央)と原子力を受け入れることを通して故郷の永続的発展を望む「原子力ムラ」(地方)という二項対立的な構造の中で、原子力が2つの構造をつなぐ媒介としての役割を果たすことを通して戦後の経済成長が達成されたという。加えて、著者は戦後の経済成長の過程において「原子力ムラ」(地方)がマスメディアに映された自らの「欠如」を自覚し、愛郷的精神からその「欠如」を埋め合わせるために自発的に原子力を受け入れていったと指摘する。しかし、「原子力ムラ」による原子力の自発的な受け入れが皮肉なことに「原子力ムラ」(地方)を「原子力ムラ」(地方)として固定化してしまったという。本書は著者が東京大学大学院学際情報学府修士課程に提出した修士論文をもとにして出版され、第65回毎日出版文化賞(人文社会部門)を受賞した。構成は以下の通り。

 序章  原子力ムラを考える前提―戦後成長のエネルギーとは

第一章 原子力ムラに接近する方法

第二章 原子力ムラの現在

第三章 原子力ムラの前史―戦時~一九五〇年代半ば

第四章 原子力ムラの成立―一九五〇年代半ば~一九九〇年代半ば

第五章 戦後成長はいかに達成されたのか―服従のメカニズムの高度化

第六章 戦後成長が必要としたもの―服従における排除と固定化

終章  結論―戦後成長のエネルギー

補章  福島からフクシマへ

補章は福島原発事故発生以降に追加された。著者はここで福島原発事故以降における脱・原発運動の問題点について次のように指摘する。「原発を動かし続けることへの志向は一つの暴力であるが、ただ純粋にそれを止めることを叫び、彼らの生存の基盤を脅かすこともまた暴力になりかねない。そして、その圧倒的なジレンマのなかに原子力ムラの現実があることが「中央」の推進にせよ反対にせよ「知的」で「良心的」なアクターたちによって見過ごされていることにこそ最大の問題がある。」(372-373頁)

本書は、戦後日本において原子力が果たした役割に加えて福島原発事故の原因について詳しく説明している。もともと修士論文として書かれた作品なので、大学生以上のテキストとしてのぞましい

- Yasuhito Abe

FILM: Hiroshima (1953)

Sekigawa, Hideo. 1953. Hiroshima. Feature Film.

Hiroshima begins with a scene in a middle school classroom in 1953 where students’ misunderstandings of radiation and leukemia have led to discrimination against victims. By foregrounding issues of discrimination and the lack of governmental support for survivors in the classroom, the film’s pedagogic aim is pronounced. As a result, the extended second act of the film that portrays the actual atomic bomb attack resonates that much more poignantly as a historical frame for contemplation. Especially in Japan following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the significance of addressing the dangers and prejudices that face people of the affected areas and questions about natural habitat recovery seem all the more relevant.

After the classroom, the films shifts back in time to scenes of pre-bomb wartime life in Hiroshima. People are eking out a stark but seemingly harmonious existence despite a scarcity of basic goods. Suddenly, with thunderous impact of image and sound, the screen screams white and then falls to a smoldering blackness. For the next grueling hour, the film attempts to show the chaos and magnitude of the tragedy in the days that followed. In gritty black and white images, we see the often-futile search for loved ones and get a sense of the sheer numbers of people lost that day, and later to radiation sickness in the months that followed. By emphasizing the processes of recovery itself, such as panic and skepticism toward whether life could be revived there at all, the director Sekihara Hideo deconstructs certain stigmas that followed the bomb, reintroducing biological and humanistic aspects of the struggle.

Financed by the teachers union of Hiroshima, Sekigawa’s Hiroshima includes thousands of nuclear attack survivors as extras in a vivid depiction of the events surrounding August 6, 1945. Both this film and Shindo Kaneto’s 1952 Children of Hiroshima are based on a collection of stories by child survivors of the attack, “Children of Atomic Bomb” (edited by Osada Arata). However, whereas Shindo attempts to represent the trauma of the event through post-disaster reflection, Sekihara’s film is a more didactic and sustained representation of the event itself.

Overall, the film is an early indictment of the government’s mistreatment of radiation victims, an issue that would spark nationwide attention by the mid-1950s. Through the detailed exegesis of the everyday anxieties involved in recovery, such as waiting for doctor’s diagnoses or doubting whether plants would ever sprout from the scorched earth, we are left with the message that life returns even in the face of destruction. Hiroshima’s reach and influence may have been overshadowed at the time of its release by Shindo’s film, but its value as both a historical record and lesson for a post-Fukushima world gives it a second life today. The film proves to be a powerful representation of historic trauma and serves as a reminder of the ways in which victims of nuclear tragedy sought — and continue to seek — understanding, support, and reconciliation.

-Kenneth Masaki Shima

단행본: 고베의 재건 (2010)

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.)

Edgington, David W. 2010. Reconstructing Kobe: The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity. University of British Columbia Press.

고베가 도쿄나 다른 일본 도시들이 앞으로 반드시 다가올 위기에 대비할 수 있는 기회를 주었는지는 확실히 알 수 없을지도 모른다. 다음 지진이 일어나고 그 위기를 평가하기 전까지는 그것을 인식할 수 없을 것이다.

이 단락은 데이빗 에징턴(David W. Edgington)이 한신-아와지 대지진에 이은 일본 고베의 10년간의 복구계획과 재건에 대해 쓴 광범위하고 디테일한 책의 마지막 부분이다. 3월 11일에서 석달이 지난 지금, 우리는 재난 복구에 있어서 일본이 고베로부터 무엇을 배웠냐고 물은 그의 질문에 대답하기 시작해도 될 것이다. 에징턴의 연구자료로 판단해보면, 이러한 노력들이 완전히 평가되기 까지는 10년 혹은 그 이상이 걸릴지도 모른다.

브리티시 컬럼비아 대학(University of British Columbia)의 지리학 교수 에징턴은 운명적이었던 1995년 1월 17일의 아침부터 2005년까지 고베의 정치적, 사회적, 그리고 물질적 변화의 윤곽을 추적했다. 에징턴은 이론적 논의는 상대적으로 적으면서, 많은 경험적이고 정량적인 데이터를 사용한 명료한 서술적 설명을 제공했다. 이 책은 수많은 수치와 도표와 사진을 포함하고 있어서 학부생과 대학원생 모두를 아우르는 다양한 독자들에게 분석과 토론을 위한 풍부한 자료를 제공한다. 카트리나 이후의 뉴올리언즈와 같이 재해가 휩쓸고 간 도시들의 복구과정에 대해 연구하거나, 동아시아의 역사적인 재해 이후의 후유증에 대해 조사해 본 학자들은 이 책에서 아주 흥미로운 비교와 새로운 출발점을 찾을 것이다. 또한 이 책은 많은 독자들로 하여금 지금 일본 동부에서 진행중인 복구를 위한 노력과 그 맥락을 이해할 수 있도록 도움을 줄 것이다.

‘위험한 기회’라는 일본어 危機(위기)에서 영감을 얻어, 에징턴은 재난이 일어난 후의 고베를 ‘위기의 지형’과 ‘기회의 지형’의 조각보라고 묘사했다. 이 개념은 그가 인구학, 법적, 정책적 이유, 자금제도, 그리고 한정된 기한의 압력의 설명력을 중시했음에도 불구하고, ‘위기/기회’라는 이중적 개념을 그의 이야기에서 항상 언급되는 공간적 범주와 연결시킨다. ‘미리 존재하는 상황’, ‘재난 그 자체의 구체적 성격’, ‘정부와 비정부기구의 복구 촉진을 위한 노력’, 그리고 ‘정부에 대한 지역 공동체의 태도와 관계’, 이 4가지 범주가 저자의 재앙과 도시의 복구에 관한 논의의 뼈대를 세우는 데 도움을 준다.

4, 5, 6 장은 재난 후 복구에 대한 연구에 관심이 있는 학생들을 위해 가장 흥미로운 생각할 거리를 제공한다. 이 단원들은 고베 대지진 이후, 특히 시에서 많은 희생자들이 아직도 보호소에 있거나 일본 전역에 흩어져 있었고, 희생된 6400명을 애도하고 있었음에도 불구하고 중앙정부의 예산을 획득하기 위해 두 달만에 복구 계획을 발표 했을 때 사람들과 기관 사이의 갈등을 묘사하고 있다. 이러한 계획들은 화난 시민들이 시청을 5시간 가량 둘러 싸고서 한 시민이 나중에 “불 난 집을 터는 도둑 같다”라고 했듯이 시민들의 의견을 묻지 않은 채 그들을 이용한 것에 대하여 농성을 부리는 상황에 맞닥뜨렸다. 시에서는 즉각 태도를 바꿔 복구 계획과 재개발에 있어서 대규모 시민참여 계획을 도입했다.

고베의 재개발 계획에는 지도에서 ‘블랙 존’이라고 불리는 정부의 주요 지원을 받게 될 지역 8개를 파악하는 것이 포함되어 있었다. 이 지역들은 피해의 심각성 뿐만이 아니라, 고베시가 경제적 재개발을 증대시키는 데 이용할 만한 특성과 같이 다른 이유로 인해서도 선택되었다. 에징턴의 연구는 전체 시의 3퍼센트밖에 차지하지 않는 ‘블랙 존’이라고 불리는 곳과, 시의 대부분을 차지하면서 더 심각한 피해를 입은 곳도 있는 ‘화이트 존’ 혹은 그 중간인 ’그레이 존’에 배분된 정부 지원의 불균형을 지적한다.

도시의 역사를 공부하는 학생들은, 고베의 경험이 지역사회 만들기(community-building) 단체의 인기가 고베와 일본 전역에서 1990년대 후반부터 오늘날까지 급증하는데 기여했다는 점에서, 이 연구가 유익하다는 사실을 알게 될 것이다. 고베는 이미 지역 주민들이 도시 계획부서와 함께 일하며 그들의 지역을 공동으로 개발하는 연계 계획의 선구자적 역할을 한 역사를 가지고 있었다. 에징턴은 세가지 사례 연구를 통해 전통적 도시계획과 지역사회 만들기(community-building)에 바탕한 지역계획을 전체 시 규모에서 결합시키는 것은 전적으로 새로운 실험이었고 굉장히 불균둥한 결과를 낳았다는 것을 보여주었다. 재난을 겪은 다른 도시의 사례와 같이, 저자의 고베에 대한 분석은, 파괴와 재개발 자금이 가져다 준 기회의 바람을 잡으려고 서두르는 과정에서, 복구라는 배는 기존의 혹은 새로운 복잡한 사회관계, 답답한 경제적, 정치적 현실, 파괴의 잔해들, 그리고 완전한 새출발이란 불가능하다는 완고한 사실을 헤쳐나가야만 한다는 것을 보여준다.

이 책은 야심차게 넓은 범위를 가지고 있지만, 한권의 책이 고베의 복구계획과 재건을 완전히 다룰 수는 없을 것이다. 좋은 연구는 앞으로의 추가 연구를 위한 질문을 낳는데, 에징턴은 이 책에서 그러한 역할을 했다. 그가 언급한대로, 에징턴의 사례연구는 ‘블랙 존’만을 다루었으며, 그는 정부의 지원 없이 스스로 일어서도록 남겨진 ‘화이트 존’이 사실은 블랙 존보다 더 빨리 복구되었다는 점을 지적했다. 에징턴의 연구는 융통성 없는 법안과 지역 주민과 정부 사이의 논쟁적인 협상이 블랙 존의 복구를 지연시켰다고 주장했다. 그러나 사람들은 ‘화이트 존’과 ‘그레이 존’에 대한 비슷한 사례 연구를 보고 싶어 할 것이다.

에징턴은 노년층, 육체 노동자, 그리고 재일 한국인과 중국인 및 과거 천민층의 후손을 포함한 소수족들의 극심한 취약점을 지적했다. 이 그룹들의 특별한 경험은 더 많고 상세한 조사를 필요로 한다. (이 재앙의 장년층 희생자들에 대한 한 연구서가 이미 출판 되었다. Junko Otani, Older People in Natural disasters: The Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. )

마지막으로, 지역 만들기(community-building) 조직들과 (대부분 시에서 나온) 전문 계획 컨설턴트들에 의해 중재된 지역 주민과 시 사이의 협상은, 전문가와 공무원과 지역 주민들간의 상호작용이 일어나는 흥미로운 장소였다. 학생과 학자들은 이 협상이 어떻게 진행되었는지, 어떻게 핵심적인 이슈들이 정해지고 구성되었는지, 어떤 종류의 사회를 건설할 것인가에 대한 전망이 어떻게 표현되고 논쟁되었는지 정확히 알기 위해 협상의 자세한 부분들을 열어 보는 과정에 흥미로움을 느낄 수 있을 것이다.

이 책에 대한 보충자료로서 에징턴 교수가 고베와 센다이를 비교하는 짧은 동영상들을 참고할 수 있다.

- Tyson Vaughan and In Young Kim, trans.

Historical and Contemporary Studies of Disasters Workshop

Teach 3.11 is pleased to announce the preliminary program of the workshop “Historical and Contemporary Studies of Disasters,” to be held at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) annual meeting in Copenhagen on Sunday, 7 October 2012. This is a pre-circulated papers workshop, with advance registration required. Please contact the
program chair, Atsushi Akera, for information at akeraa @ rpi.edu.

Click here to see program.

This event is co-sponsored by the SHOT Prometheans (Engineering) Significant Interest Group, SHOT Asia Network, and Teach 3.11.

本: Site fights: Divisive facilities and civil society in Japan and the West

Aldrich, D.P. (2008). Site fights: Divisive facilities and civil society in Japan and the West. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

邦訳:ダニエル・P・アルドリッチ『誰が負を引きうけるのか:原発・ダム・空港立地をめぐる紛争と市民社会』世界思想社、2012年

本書は原子力発電所や空港やダムなどといった市民全体にとっては必要であるものの、それらの施設が設置される地域共同体には好ましくない影響を及ぼす可能性のある施設について、日本の国家機関と市民社会の関係性という観点から論じた専門書である。著者のダニエル・P・アルドリッチ(パデュー大学準教授)は本書を通じて、国家機関は市民社会の成熟度が低い地域にこれらの施設を設置する傾向があると主張している。著者によると、市民社会としていまだじゅうぶんに成熟していない地域において組織的な反対運動が存在しない場合には、政策立案者は強硬的な手段を通してその地域にこれらの施設を設置する傾向があるという。このことは、市民社会として成熟している地域において組織的な反対運動が起きた場合にのみ、政策立案者は地域住民の理解を得るために説得や補助金などのソフトな手段を講じる傾向があることを示す。

本書は日本の原子力政策および福島原発事故の理解を深めるうえで有益な資料であると言える。なお、本書は2012年に世界思想社から『誰が負を引きうけるのか:原発・ダム・空港立地をめぐる紛争と市民社会』として邦訳された。

本書の構成は以下の通り。

Introduction: Site Fights and Policy Tools

  1. Picking Sites
  2. A Logic of Tool Choice
  3. Occasional Turbulence: Airport Siting in Japan and France
  4. Dam the Rivers: Siting Water Projects in Japan and France
  5. Trying to Change Hearts and Minds: Japanese Nuclear Power Plant Siting
  6. David versus Goliath: France Nuclear Power Plant Siting
  7. Conclusion: Areas for Future Investigation

各章の中でもとりわけ東日本大震災に伴う福島原発事故の参考になるものとして、第五章と第六章が挙げられる。第五章では、日本の原子力政策の歴史が叙述されたのち、日本政府がいかにしてさまざまな地域住民による反原発運動に対処したかが分析されている。第六章は比較研究の対象として、日本の国家機構と共通点を多く持つフランスの事例が取り上げられている。国家機構では共通点が多いものの、日仏の政策立案者による反原発運動に対する対処の仕方には大きな違いが存在する。本書は専門的な用語が数々散見されるものの、その都度丁寧に説明されているため高校生高学年から大学生以上に適切な教材であると思われる。

-Yasuhito Abe

[関連した2011年のアルドリッチとデュシンベールに書かれた記事「Hatoko Comes Home」はこちら。]

記事: Hatoko comes home: Civil society and nuclear power in Japan

Dusinberre, M & Aldrich, D.P. (2011). Hatoko comes home: Civil society and nuclear power in Japan. The Journal of Asian Studies, 70 (3), 638-705

被爆地である広島からそう離れていない山口県上関町がいかにして1980年代初頭に原子力発電所を誘致するに至ったかを検証した研究である。1974年4月、日本放送協会(NHK)は朝の連続ドラマ「鳩子の海」の放映を開始した。この連続ドラマは、広島で被爆した後に山口県上関町の住民の養子となった少女(平和のシンボルの鳩から「鳩子」と名付けられる)が成長する過程を描いている。本論文の著者マーティン・デュシンベール(ニューキャッスル大学講師)とダニエル・P・アルドリッチ(パデュー大学準教授)は、戦後日本の原子力政策と上関町の過疎化を中心とした社会経済的衰退を描きつつ、石油危機後の中央政府や中国電力、そして地域のエリートや地域住民たちがどのような理由をもって原発誘致に至ったかかを検証している。

本論文は1980年代初期の山口県上関町というケースを取り上げた研究である。しかし、著者らによると、本論文に描かれている上関町の原発誘致決定に至るプロセスには、福島を含めた他の地域の原発誘致にも当てはまる共通点が存在するという。著者らは、上関町の原発誘致に至るプロセスにおける「地域社会の運営のされ方」「地域住民による自分たちの生活する地域の経済が衰退することへの恐れ」「電力会社による地域住民の日常生活に対する介入」「中央政府から地域社会に与えられる補助金の誘惑」「原発の安全性に関する議論が回避される」という点にこれらの共通点を見出している(702頁)。

日本の原子力政策および福島原発事故の理解を地域社会の立場から深めるうえで有益な資料であると言える。高校で習う戦後史の知識を要するので、大学生以上の教材として適切だと思われる。

-Yasuhito Abe

[関連したアルドリッチの邦訳された本『Site Fights』はこちら。]