Competing discourses on Japan's nuclear power : pronuclear versus antinuclear activism
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Competing discourses on Japan's nuclear power : pronuclear versus antinuclear activism
(Routledge studies in environmental communication and media)(Earthscan from Routledge)
Routledge, 2022
- : hbk
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines the discursive formation of nuclear power in Japan to provide insights into the ways this technology has been both promoted and resisted, constituting and being constituted by Japan's sociocultural landscape.
Each chapter pays close attention to a particular discursive site, including newspaper editorials, public relations campaigns, local site fights, urban antinuclear activism, and post-Fukushima pronuclear and antinuclear articulations. The book also raises the question of democracy and sustainability through the examination of nuclear power discourses. It demonstrates the power of discourse in shaping nuclear power by creating knowledge, influencing decisions, relationships, identity, and community. Readers will gain a range of insights from the book: prominent articulations on nuclear power discourse, state and corporate strategies for enticing consent for controversial facilities and technologies, the power of the media in framing public knowledge, the role of social movements and activisms in civic society, the power of community, and nuclear power as a problematic in representative democracy and sustainability.
This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in social discourse, social movements, Japanese society, cultural studies, environmental communication, media analysis, energy and sustainability, and democracy, among others.
Table 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
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