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This book examines the discursive formation of nuclear power in Japan. It will be of interest to students and scholars of social discourse, social movements, Japanese society, cultural studies, environmental communication, media analysis, energy and sustainability, and democracy, among others.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. Japan’s Nuclear Power: A Short History 3. Mediating Nuclear Power for Citizens: Newspaper Editorials in Shaping Nuclear Power 4. Pronuclear Power Discourse: Safe, Indispensable, and Green 5. Fighting for Community: Antinuclear Movements at Ground Zero 6. Pre-Fukushima Urban Antinuclear Activism: Identity and Sociocultural Challenges 7. Fukushima and (Re)claiming the Voices of Democracy 8. Fukushima "Under Control": Progress Discourse and Its Excess 9. Nuclear Power, Democracy, and Sustainability
About the author
Etsuko Kinefuchi is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and affiliated faculty in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Summary
This book examines the discursive formation of nuclear power in Japan. It will be of interest to students and scholars of social discourse, social movements, Japanese society, cultural studies, environmental communication, media analysis, energy and sustainability, and democracy, among others.
