| Project/Area Number |
20K13702
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
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| Research Institution | Tamagawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Keywords | citizen science / expert activism / post-Fukushima Japan / nuclear power / environmental justice / disaster justice |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This research discusses the nature of expert activism and explains the organization of alliances between activists and sympathetic experts across borders in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. As a result, this research can offer strategic insights on the possible solutions to disaster inequalities.
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research project focused on community activism in Japan following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in March 2011. It analyzed how citizens, alarmed by the consequences of the accident, found ways to cope with the uncertainties of radiation pollution by soliciting experts from Japan and abroad and creating expert-activist alliances.
During the four years of my project, I interviewed experts from different fields who were working with citizens on various recovery projects. The results were published in an edited volume entitled "Japan’s Triple Disaster: Pursuing Justice after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Accident." The volume was edited by me, Dr. Julia Gerster, and Dr. Manuela Hartwig, and was published in the Routledge Contemporary Japan Series. The chapters of the volume discuss disaster governance and the various forms of disaster-related injustices following the Great East Japan Earthquake.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
The results of this research further our understanding of environmental and disaster justice and demonstrate how expertise can undermine environmental inequalities. Furthermore, this research project elicits the roles and responsibilities of experts in environmental justice struggles.
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