Based on a variety of interviews with residents, farmers, scientists, journalists, and activists who have been affected by the Fukushima catastrophe, the authors underscore the personal, political, and humanitarian impacts in testimonies, science, and photos. The book engagingly addresses diverse issues that continue to haunt and persist and calls for collective responsibility to deal with the devastating environmental, economic, and social consequences of nuclear energy. The book offers a critique of the violent history of modernism and the supremacy of science that has been articulated into all forms of social injustice and ecological injustice.
Foreword: Not Again, Please, Never Again - Rebecca Johnson.- Foreword:
Charting Contested Contours Of Sustainaiblity, Development, Social And
Ecological Justice - Anita Rampal.- Introduction: No Solutions In Sight,
Making Possible The Impossible - Lau Kin Chi.- Introduction: Education For
Ecological Justice And Social Justice Cultivating The Capacity For Affect,
Thinking, Autonomy And Action Lau Kin Chi.- Introduction: When We Talk
About Nuclear Energy, What Are We Talking About? - Huang Xiaomei.-
Introduction: We Are In A Critical State - He Zhixiong.- Preface.- Part One.-
I. What Happened In Fukushima?.- Ii. Natural Disasters Or Human-Caused
Calamity.- Iii. Fairy Tale Of Astro Boy.- Iv. Three Questions On Nuclear
Power.- V. The Long Road Home.- Vi.Revival? Clearing Evacuees To Zero?.- Vii.
Glint Of Hope Ignited By The Olympic Torch?.- Viii. Where Did Contaminated
Substances Go?.- Ix. Heart Of Darkness The Molten Reactor Core.-
X.Returning To The Scene: Back Then, How Nice It Would Have Been, If
Only..- Xi. Absent Supervision.- Xii. Radioactive Contamination Spread
Worldwide The Threat From Nuclear-Contaminated Water.- Xiii. Who Protects
Decontamination Workers And Nuclear Energy Workers?.- Xiv. Mourning Of
Nature.- Xv. From Nuclear Weapon To Nuclear Energy, From Nuclear Energy To
Nuclear Weapon.- Xvi. The Peoples Self Rescue.- Epilogue Resonance That Lit
Up The Earth.- Part Two.- What I Saw After Shooting Fukushima For 10 Years
Toyoda Naomi.- Thoughts On Nuclear Power In Fukushima, Bangladesh, Rio, And
Geneva - Ohashi Masaaki.- Eight Years From The Great East Japan Earthquake:
Current Situation Of Fukushima And Its Challenges - Aihara Hiroko.- Double
Challenges To Japanese Farmers: The Nuclear Disaster And Transpacific
Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement - Ando Takemasa.- Buildup Of Nuclear
Armament Capability And The Post-War Statehood Of Japan: Fukushima And The
Genealogy Of Nuclear Bombs And Power Plants - Muto Ichiyo.- "Obsession With
Normalcy" And The World Today - Sun Ge.- Light Of The Sun Or Fire Of
Purgatory: Nuclear Power Is The Destiny Of Industrial Civilization - Tian
Song.
Lau Kin Chi is Coordinator, Programme on Cultures of Sustainability at the Centre for Cultural Research and Development, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China.
Huang Xiaomei is a freelance translator based in Hong Kong, China.
He Zhixiong is Director of the Digital Section, Green Ground Rural Reconstruction Social Enterprise Alliance, China.