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Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Edited book | New Steps in Japanese Studies
Chapter | Bio-Politics over Radiation
Bio-Politics over Radiation
From Hiroshima, Chernobyl to Fukushima
- Kazashi Nobuo - Kobe University - email
Abstract
‘Bio-politics’, according to Foucault, concerns natural environment and bodies, which are both ‘ungovernable.’ Problems regarding radiation risk are typical problems of governability; radiation can contaminate the whole environment and can eventually damage genes and destroy the self-reproductive capacity of biological bodies. Since radiation can be neither seen nor sensed, problems relating to the so-called ‘radiation exposure safety level’ become political problems concerning the scientific construction of invisible reality and the definition of its meanings for human health. We shed light on the concrete ways bio-politics operates in the nuclear age, running through from Hiroshima, Chernobyl to Fukushima, with an eye to justice as the security of biological bodies.
Submitted: March 8, 2016 | Accepted: Dec. 9, 2016 | Language: en
Keywords Safety Level • Justice • Risk • Bio-Politics • Radiation
Copyright © 2017 Kazashi Nobuo. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Opening Texts
- Preface
- Masumoto Hiroko
- Foreword
- Bonaventura Ruperti
Part 1. Literature & Culture: Crossings and Mitate
- Dōgen and mitate
- Aldo Tollini
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Multiple Modernities and Japan
Nagai Kafū and H.G. Wells - Yui Kiyomitsu
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Da ‘monello’ a ‘ragazzo per bene’
La trasformazione del protagonista ne Le avventure di Pinocchio nella loro prima traduzione giapponese - Matsumoto Fuko
Part 2. Japanese Language and Japanese Education
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Reading Lessons for Advanced-Level Learners Using Modern Japanese Literature
Learners’ and Teachers’ Observations from Portfolios - Sugihara Saki, Kiso Miyako
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On the Multiple Clause Linkage Structure of Japanese
A Corpus-based Study - Maruyama Takehiko, Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen W. Horn, Kerri L. Russell
Part 3. Nuclear Questions: from Hiroshima to Fukushima
- Engaged foreign language pedagogy: Translating Hadashi no Gen
- Marcella Mariotti
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Bio-Politics over Radiation
From Hiroshima, Chernobyl to Fukushima - Kazashi Nobuo
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Nobuo Kazashi |
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dc.title |
Bio-Politics over Radiation. From Hiroshima, Chernobyl to Fukushima |
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Chapter |
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en |
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dc.description.abstract |
‘Bio-politics’, according to Foucault, concerns natural environment and bodies, which are both ‘ungovernable.’ Problems regarding radiation risk are typical problems of governability; radiation can contaminate the whole environment and can eventually damage genes and destroy the self-reproductive capacity of biological bodies. Since radiation can be neither seen nor sensed, problems relating to the so-called ‘radiation exposure safety level’ become political problems concerning the scientific construction of invisible reality and the definition of its meanings for human health. We shed light on the concrete ways bio-politics operates in the nuclear age, running through from Hiroshima, Chernobyl to Fukushima, with an eye to justice as the security of biological bodies. |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies |
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dc.publisher |
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing |
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dc.issued |
2017-05-25 |
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dc.dateAccepted |
2016-12-09 |
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dc.dateSubmitted |
2016-03-08 |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-153-9/bio-politics-over-radiation/ |
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10.14277/6969-152-2/CFJS-5-9 |
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2610-8976 |
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2610-9395 |
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978-88-6969-153-9 |
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dc.identifier.eisbn |
978-88-6969-152-2 |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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with fulltext |
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open |
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yes |
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dc.subject |
Bio-Politics |
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dc.subject |
Bio-Politics |
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dc.subject |
Justice |
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dc.subject |
Justice |
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dc.subject |
Radiation |
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dc.subject |
Radiation |
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dc.subject |
Risk |
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dc.subject |
Risk |
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dc.subject |
Safety Level |
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dc.subject |
Safety Level |
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