Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk

Zusatztext "The most thorough! documented analysis of the radiation effects of the Fukushima disaster I know of! with an unsparing account of 68 years of nuclear denial." Charles Perrow! Yale University! USA Informationen zum Autor Majia Holmer Nadesan is a professor at Arizona State University. She has published a number of books examining the bioethics and biopolitics of social governance and human welfare: Constructing Autism, Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life, and Governing Childhood: Biopolitical Strategies of Childhood Education and Management. Her work addresses how powerful market forces, state sovereignty, and expert knowledge shape public health and welfare. Klappentext Majia Holmer Nadesan analyzes the Fukushima nuclear disaster and its radiological aftermath for the citizens of Japan and elsewhere in the context of historical and contemporary understandings of radiation-caused health and reproductive effects. Zusammenfassung Majia Holmer Nadesan analyzes the Fukushima nuclear disaster and its radiological aftermath for the citizens of Japan and elsewhere in the context of historical and contemporary understandings of radiation-caused health and reproductive effects. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Why Nuclear Power 3. Fukushima Disaster 4. Radiation Effects 5. Conclusion

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• Authors: M Nadesan, M. Nadesan, Majia Holmer Nadesan
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9781137343116
• ISBN: 978-1-137-34311-6
• No. of pages: 157
• Series: Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Pivot
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Asien, C, Sociology, Environmental Policy, Asia, Entwicklungsstudien, International Relations, Politics & government, auseinandersetzen, Sociology, general, Economic development, Political Economy, Environmental policy & protocols, International Political Economy, Environmental Politics, Development Studies, Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Asia—Politics and government, Asian Politics, Asian Culture, Ethnology—Asia, International Political Economy’