| Project/Area Number |
22KF0044
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| Project/Area Number (Other) |
22F22764 (2022)
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund (2023)
Single-year Grants (2022) |
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| Section | 外国 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 04030:Cultural anthropology and folklore-related
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
ボレー セバスチャン 東北大学, 災害科学国際研究所, 准教授 (70751676)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
GAULENE MATHIEU 東北大学, 災害科学国際研究所, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2023-03-08 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
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| Keywords | Radiation / Collective memory / Fukushima accident / Disaster science / Semiotics / Cultural anthropology / Iitate Village / Tohoku Earthquake / 放射能 / 集合記憶 / 福島原子力発電所事故 / 災害科学 / 記号論文化人類学 / 飯舘村 / 東日本大震災津波 |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This research examines the decontamination work following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident. We examines how the Japanese way of dealing with disasters plays a role in the radioactive decontamination and how decontamination form a basis for the construction of a collective memory of disasters.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This research examined the construction of collective memory of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident and the decontamination process. The researcher collected primary data from the village of Iitate and other neighbouring areas and extensively documented the decontamination process. This study suggests that spatial and symbolic distance (e.g. thinking that decontamination was effective and living in Iitate is safe) allows individuals to end the disaster and move beyond the trauma by transforming it into a memory. In contrast, individuals such distance (e.g. thinking the level of radioactivity is unsafe but still living there) may repetitively experience the trauma and the impossibility of forming a memory. For these individuals, the Fukushima nuclear accident is still ongoing.
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