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
Once is nothing at all...?
Waiting for disaster?
Environmental Injustice Case Study Industrial Park, Frankfurt Hoechst July 2021
This case study report was developed by students at the Goethe University Frankfurt, for the graduate class, “Ar
Timeline: Once is nothing at all...?
Waiting for disaster?
Poetry and scientific text
Johanna StorzWhat I find really noteworthy in this text is how Julia Watts Belser takes the poem by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and includes it into a scientific text. In this way, she not only allows an affected person to have her say, the poem also leaves the reader with a very striking image of the connection between the river and the body, in multiple ways, as well as the connection between enviromental harm and disability.
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