Nwoya Environmental Injustice Record
Photo essay, Nwoya District, Uganda
Photo essay, Nwoya District, Uganda
Photo essay to introduce viewers to soil health injustice in Wayanad District, Kerala, India
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Adriana Petryna is a professor of antropology. She is interested in cultrual and polticial aspects of science and medicine in Eastern Eurpoe. She teaches at Penn State.
It is made and sustained through interviews of people who were there in the powr plant during the event, the surrounding citizens in the villages, Americans who came to intervene on their citizens, and people in Japan's government. Film footage is used to support the argument. The scientific information that is provided for support in the film was saying the levels of radiation around the plant as the situation became better and worse, the structure of the power plant (briefly), how to stop a nuclear meltdown.
The author is Byron Good, he is an American medical anthropologist studying mental illness at Harvard University . His work focuses on mental illness in Asian and Indonesian socities.
The study was funded by the CDC (the US gov) and the WHO.
Wayanad District in Kerala District