SfAA Panel: Beyond Environmental Injustice
Essay for the double-panel "Beyond Environmental Injustice", 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 22-27, 2021.
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jaostrander“safety sometimes gets pitted against profitability”
“Consequently, we see a trend where mitigating the consequences of a nuclear disaster is also increasingly being regarded as an international task.”
“We need to create a credible organization-one that combines the legitimacy of the United Nations agency and the executive vigor of an industry group.”
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jaostranderThe arguments in the article are primarily supported by analysis of narratives given by patients who participated in an interview.
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jaostranderThis study looks at subjects who lived in Fukushima at the time of the nuclear disaster. Specifically those who were under the age of 20 in 2015.
Law does more than codify, regulate, and control; it also catalyzes and transmutes, provoking cascading social and cultural effects, particularly when the force of law is informational.