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Majia Holmer Nadesan analyzes the Fukushima nuclear disaster and its radiological aftermath for the citizens of Japan and elsewhere in the context of historical and contemporary understandings of radiation-caused health and reproductive effects.
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"The most thorough, documented analysis of the radiation effects of the Fukushima disaster I know of, with an unsparing account of 68 years of nuclear denial." Charles Perrow, Yale University, USA
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Majia Holmer Nadesan is a professor at Arizona State University. She has published a number of books examining the bioethics and biopolitics of social governance and human welfare: Constructing Autism, Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life, and Governing Childhood: Biopolitical Strategies of Childhood Education and Management. Her work addresses how powerful market forces, state sovereignty, and expert knowledge shape public health and welfare.
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Book Title: Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk
Authors: Majia Holmer Nadesan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137343123
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-34311-6Published: 31 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-34312-3Published: 31 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 149
Topics: Asian Culture, Sociology, general, Asian Politics, Environmental Politics, International Political Economy, Development Studies