Etsuko Kinefuchi

Competing Discourses on Japan's Nuclear Power

Pronuclear versus Antinuclear Activism

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780367490492
• ISBN-10: 0367490498
• Artikelnr.: 62714985

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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