本：夢の原子力 Atoms for Dream (2012)

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, University of Southern California

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

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

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.

We recommend that you click on the “full screen” option (lower right box icon) to enjoy the full details of the slides.

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.

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

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.

Another Year of “Teaching the Disaster” through History of Science and Technology

The multi-language educational project Teach 3.11 launched shortly after March 11th, 2011 in an effort to introduce resources to help “teach the disaster” through the lens of history of science, technology, environment, and medicine in global East Asia. To commemorate the one-year anniversary of the triple disasters, we would like to recognize and thank our volunteers who have produced the lay summaries of scholarship and multimedia that appear throughout the Teach 3.11 web site. These volunteers, who include undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty, span time zones, languages, institutions, and disciplines. We are grateful for and proud of our volunteers, who make it possible for Teach 3.11 to serve as a sign of international solidarity and a way to remember the estimated 15,000 who died and the 3,000 who remain missing after the devastations of March 11th.

The work of Teach 3.11 aims to strengthen a foundation for teaching about this calamity and encourage the collective wisdom of scholars working in various languages at the intersections of history of science, technology, and Asia. As we commit to a second year of activity, Teach 3.11 will focus on producing new content as well as increasing translations of existing content in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. The resulting collection of postings will amount to an online multilingual, annotated bibliography that teachers, students, and scholars of any discipline may continue to find useful into the future.

Teach 3.11 seeks new volunteers to write short annotations (and translations) in English, Japanese, Korean, or Chinese in order to fulfill these goals. Students as well as faculty are warmly invited to contribute through this web page. To volunteer, or to send the Teach 3.11 team feedback, please email teach3eleven -at- gmail.com or “follow” @Teach_311 on Twitter.

Please also feel free to visit the STS Fukushima Online Forum, to peruse a provocative suite of essays co-sponsored by Teach 3.11 that have been made available for online discussion.

Thank you, and we look forward to hearing from you soon.

Teach 3.11 editorial team

3.11 Virtual Conference: Looking Back to Look Forward (11-12 March 2012)

311バーチャル会議: Looking Back to Look Forward (11-12 March 2012)

Teach 311は2012年3月11日～12日日本時間朝8時から、STS 福島フォーラムのホームページ上で東北大震災の一周忌に開かれるバーチャル会議を後援します。このイベントは、現地調査を手がける著名な研究者から大学院生によるエッセイに対してのコメントや対話を48時間に渡り受け付けるもので、昨年あった地震、津波、核による惨事の合同災害に関連する主な課題や未解決の問題について話し合う場になる予定です。 どなたでも参加できますので、皆様と語り合えますのを楽しみにしております。詳細はこちらです。

Teach 3.11 is pleased to co-sponsor a “virtual conference” that will take place 11-12 March 2012 from 8:00 a.m., Japan Standard Time (6:00 p.m., March 10, EST) at the science studies Fukushima Forum web site on the one-year anniversary of the triple disasters that devastated eastern Japan. The event, in the form of a 48-hour open comment and dialogue session in response to a suite of essays by established scholars to graduate students conducting fieldwork, will commemorate and discuss major issues and concerns raised – and still unsettled – related to the confluence of last year’s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters. All are welcome to join the online discussion. We look forward to meeting you there. Thank you.

Details are available here.

Teach 3.11: Participatory Educational Project Puts the Kanto-Tōhoku Disaster into Historical Context

We are pleased to announce the publication of an article in the September 2011 issue of East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal introducing the Teach 3.11 project. With permission from Duke University Press, we have uploaded a proof of the article for your convenience.

Onaga, Lisa. 2011. ”Teach 3.11: Participatory Educational Project Puts the Kanto-Tōhoku Disaster into Historical Context,” East Asian Science, Technology and Society 5.3:417-422.

Official journal site.
Extract on Project Muse.
Article proof (pdf).

Teach 3.11 is on summer break. We’ll be “back-to-school” with a redesigned website and fresh content. We also welcome new contributors and your feedback, which can be sent to teach3eleven [at] gmail.com. Thank you, stay safe, and please stay tuned.

Introduction

Teach 3/11 is a participatory resource to help teachers and scholars locate and share educational resources about the historical contexts of scientific and technical issues related to the triple earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters in Japan.

• “What should I read?”
• “What should I teach?”
• “Who studies these issues?”

These represent a sample of the kinds of questions that have been directed at and among many Japan-watchers and analysts of science and technology since 3/11. As an independent initiative spurred by the hope of helping people find answers to such questions more quickly, Teach 3/11 is a participatory online project built in the spirit of international cooperation and solidarity that disaster recoveries depend upon, regardless where they occur. In partnership with the Forum for the History of Science in Asia, Teach 3/11 has a simple goal: to develop a list of teaching resources with the help of the the collective wisdom of scholars worldwide working at the intersections of history of science and technology and Asia.

Beginning on 14 April through the end of the month, we will make a post every weekday at 2:46 p.m. local time in Japan to remember the events that have since unfolded. We will also field the receipt of citation suggestions during our first phase of development through a self-imposed deadline of April 22nd in order to post the most relevant information about references, readings, and audio-visual materials to aid teachers interested in the most pertinent history of science and technology resources in the wake of 3/11 current events.  In our second phase of development, we will work on preparing contributed material for continued online postings, which will collectively result in an online teaching resource.

Beginning with materials in English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese, our hope is to make Teach 3/11 as useful as possible for fellow educators everywhere. Here’s a sample of the kind of entries we’re aiming to compile. We’re also interested in compiling a list of study questions for students. Click here to get started.

Our lines of communication are open to the community. Contact teach3eleven [at] gmail [dot] com or @teach_311 to reach us. Bookmark and check teach311.wordpress.com as we make continual updates. As we increase our digital capacity, please stay tuned and help spread the word!

Thank you for participating in Teach 3/11.

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Banner image: A house floats intact in the Pacific Ocean, washed out to sea by the tsunami of March 11, 2011.  Credit: US Navy

Teach 3/11 at Syracuse University

Teach 3/11 will man a booth at the one-day Post Disaster Recovery conference at Syracuse University on April 15!