Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination After Fukushima

Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination After Fukushima

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Author/Contributor(s): Kimura, Aya Hirata
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 08/26/2016
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
Aya Hirata Kimura traces the experiences of citizen scientists--particularly mothers--who after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster collected scientific data that revealed radiation-contaminated food, showing how the Japanese government used neoliberal and traditional gender ideologies to discount and socially sanction these women and their findings.