Event | Envisioning Next Generation Radiation Governance: Remembering Fukushima, 2021
Envisioning Next Generation Radiation Governance: Archiving, Regulation, Education, Places
Radioactive Performances: Teaching about Radiation after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and its release of radioac- tive contamination, the Japanese state put into motion risk communica- tion strategies to explain the danger of radiation e
Events of Disaster & Consequences
This slide pictures a brief timeline of developments in the Chemical Valley
Environmental Injustice Case Study Sarnia, Ontario, July 2021
This case study report was developed by students at the Goethe University Frankfurt, for the graduate class, “Archi
Chemical Valley Memo 2
This memo will add some of my thoughts to Carlys memo which gives a great overview for the chemical valley case study.
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Following the article, the author J. Kenens has published another paper "Changing perspectives: tracing the evolution of citizen radiation measuring organizations after Fukushima (2020)" DOI: 10.1051/radiopro/2020041 (link) that draws on the research on citizen science in Japan with a new focus on the comparison of their practices directly after the nuclear accident and today.
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It is interesting to see how citizen science in Japan is enacted and how the concept of citizen science is dependent to the social and cultural context. Also looking at it not only from a top-down perspective, where universities or organizations are involved, but also the bottom-up perspective that includes only those practices that are done by citizens alone opens up a new space. As I am currently engaging with research on air pollution in different sites, I could build from this text in considering the link between "citizen-driven approaches and institutional imparatives in the governance" (p. 7) of issues with air pollution.
In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, citizen scientists collectively tracked and monitored residual radioactivity in Japan, legitimizing alternative views to an official assessm