Post-Fukushima Activism: Politics and Knowledge in the Age of Precarity

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Book Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction......Page 8
Bibliography......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
The Process of Depoliticisation in Post-War Japan......Page 16
Impossibility of the Outside......Page 23
Crack and Change......Page 31
Notes......Page 36
Bibliography......Page 37
Introduction......Page 41
Politics of Governance......Page 42
Power and Resistance: What Oppresses Us?......Page 50
Agency and Desire: Who Wants Social Change?......Page 54
Advancement and Resonance: Where to Go?......Page 60
Bibliography......Page 67
Introduction......Page 70
Details of the Fieldwork......Page 71
Initial Motivation for the Post-Fukushima Anti-Nuclear Movement......Page 75
Ethics and Emotional Politics......Page 82
Bibliography......Page 97
Introduction......Page 99
Development of the Politics of Emotions......Page 100
Mapping the Emotional Politics......Page 109
Resonance in the Movement......Page 117
Notes......Page 124
Bibliography......Page 125
Introduction......Page 127
Epistemological Turning Point in Social Movement Research......Page 128
Ontological Turning Point in Political Theories......Page 135
Uncertainty and the Role of Knowledge......Page 144
Bibliography......Page 148
Introduction......Page 151
Reimagining Subjectivity: Impersonal Agency and Desire......Page 153
Reimagining Ethics: Heterogeneous Bodies and Assemblage......Page 160
Reimagining Politics: Dignity and Affirmation of Life......Page 166
Notes......Page 175
Bibliography......Page 176
Introduction......Page 179
Disaster and Knowledge......Page 180
Science, Philosophy and Art......Page 189
Post-Disaster Political Imaginary......Page 200
Bibliography......Page 203
Conclusion......Page 207
Bibliography......Page 211
Index......Page 212