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JAPAN COPES WITH CALAMITY: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE By Tom Gill & Brigitte Steger VG
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- ISBN-10
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- Book Title
- Japan Copes with Calamity: Ethnographies of the Earthquake,
- Item Height
- 9 inches
- ISBN
- 9783034309226
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
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- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Japan Copes with Calamity : Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011
- Features
- New Edition
- Item Length
- 8.9in
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- Lang A&G International Academic Publishers, Peter
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- Number of Pages
- Xii, 316 Pages
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This book is the first collection of ethnographies in English on the Japanese communities affected by the giant Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011 and the ensuing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. It brings together studies by experienced researchers of Japan from field sites around the disaster zone. The contributors present the survivors' struggles in their own words: from enduring life in shelters and temporary housing, through re-creating the fishing industry, to rebuilding life-ways and relationships bruised by bereavement. They contrast the sudden brutal loss of life from the tsunami with the protracted anxiety about exposure to radiation and study the battle to protect children, family and a way of life from the effects of destruction, displacement and discrimination. The local communities' encounters with volunteers and journalists who poured into Tohoku after the disaster and the campaign to win compensation from the state and nuclear industry are also explored. This volume offers insights into the social fabric of rural communities in north-eastern Japan and suggests how the human response to disaster may be improved in the future.
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Lang A&G International Academic Publishers, Peter
ISBN-10
3034309228
ISBN-13
9783034309226
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Publication Name
Japan Copes with Calamity : Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
New Edition
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
Xii, 316 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
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New Edition
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Well referenced in anthropology theory and history, Japan Copes with Calamity goes to the core of practical and theoretical concerns in disaster study and substantially advances the field. (Susanna M. Hoffman, co-editor of Catastrophe and Culture ) An 'urgent ethnography' of Japan's response to the 3.11 disasters. Engaged in the recovery effort since its earliest stages, the authors have produced a significant study based on the voices of the people affected. (Shinji Yamashita, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo) An important contribution both to Japanese studies and to the social science of disasters. It succeeds in rendering comprehensible an extremely complex sociocultural event. (Harumi Befu, Stanford University) These are first-rate ethnographies displaying not only great empathy but also deep contextual knowledge of contemporary Japanese society and culture. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the resiliency of the human spirit in the wake of catastrophic events. (Ted Bestor, Harvard University) The contributors furnish subtle, thought-provoking, and original work that conveys the immense challenges of this notorious series of disasters and how different communities have coped with the thorny aftermath. [...] This is a very important collection that contributes greatly to scholarly and other understanding of this tragic series of disasters and their continuing aftermath. (Peter W. Kirby, Social Science Japan Journal 14.2014), «Well referenced in anthropology theory and history, Japan Copes with Calamity goes to the core of practical and theoretical concerns in disaster study and substantially advances the field.» (Susanna M. Hoffman, co-editor of Catastrophe and Culture ) «An _urgent ethnography_ of Japan_s response to the 3.11 disasters. Engaged in the recovery effort since its earliest stages, the authors have produced a significant study based on the voices of the people affected.» (Shinji Yamashita, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo) «An important contribution both to Japanese studies and to the social science of disasters. It succeeds in rendering comprehensible an extremely complex sociocultural event.» (Harumi Befu, Stanford University) «These are first-rate ethnographies displaying not only great empathy but also deep contextual knowledge of contemporary Japanese society and culture. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the resiliency of the human spirit in the wake of catastrophic events.» (Ted Bestor, Harvard University) «The contributors furnish subtle, thought-provoking, and original work that conveys the immense challenges of this notorious series of disasters and how different communities have coped with the thorny aftermath. [...] This is a very important collection that contributes greatly to scholarly and other understanding of this tragic series of disasters and their continuing aftermath.» (Peter W. Kirby, Social Science Japan Journal 14.2014), Well referenced in anthropology theory and history, Japan Copes with Calamity goes to the core of practical and theoretical concerns in disaster study and substantially advances the field. (Susanna M. Hoffman, co-editor of Catastrophe and Culture) An 'urgent ethnography' of Japan's response to the 3.11 disasters. Engaged in the recovery effort since its earliest stages, the authors have produced a significant study based on the voices of the people affected. (Shinji Yamashita, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo) An important contribution both to Japanese studies and to the social science of disasters. It succeeds in rendering comprehensible an extremely complex sociocultural event. (Harumi Befu, Stanford University) These are first-rate ethnographies displaying not only great empathy but also deep contextual knowledge of contemporary Japanese society and culture. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the resiliency of the human spirit in the wake of catastrophic events. (Ted Bestor, Harvard University)
Table of Content
Contents: Tom Gill/Brigitte Steger/David H. Slater: The 3.11 Disasters - David H. Slater: Urgent Ethnography - Brigitte Steger: Solidarity and Distinction through Practices of Cleanliness in Tsunami Evacuation Shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture - Nathan J. Peterson: Adapting Religious Practice in Response to Disaster in Iwate Prefecture - Johannes Wilhelm/Alyne Delaney: No Homes, No Boats, No Rafts: Miyagi Coastal People in the Aftermath of Disaster - David McNeill: Them versus Us: Japanese and International Reporting of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis - Ikeda Yoko: The Construction of Risk and the Resilience of Fukushima in the Aftermath of the Nuclear Power Plant Accident - Morioka Rika: Mother Courage: Women as Activists between a Passive Populace and a Paralyzed Government - Tom Gill: This Spoiled Soil: Place, People and Community in an Irradiated Village in Fukushima Prefecture - Tuukka Toivonen: Youth for 3.11 and the Challenge of Dispatching Young Urban Volunteers to North-eastern Japan - David H. Slater: Moralities of Volunteer Aid: The Permutations of Gifts and their Reciprocals.
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Power Resources / Nuclear, Ethnic Studies / General, Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
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Yes
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Technology & Engineering, Social Science
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