Ethnographic Study of Nuclear Disaster

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26580152
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: Aino University Junior College
• Principal Investigator: TAKAGAKI MASAO 藍野大学短期大学部, その他部局等, 教授(移行) (70252533)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 原発事故 / 福島県飯舘村 / 放射能汚染 / 仮設 / 復興 / エスノグラフィー / 文化生成 / コミュニティー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

At the end of March 2017, after the seventh year of the earthquake disaster, governmental order for evacuation was mostly terminated except for Nagadoro where radiation levels are still high. The radiation level in the living zone of Iitate village has decreased to less than 0.3 μSv/hr. The form of life style of villagers is varied, after the evacuation order for them is terminated. Villagers trying to return home in Iitate immediately will be less than 20%. Most of them are elderly people with little risk of radiation damage, and it is difficult to regenerate the community. As seen in the Nanohana project (hybrid plant of radiation pollution and nature) in radiation contaminated environments in Fukushima, the driving force of reconstruction can be found even in the hybrid structure with pollution, so in order to fit Latour's scientific theory into a low-level radioactive environment, we should rethink the real nature and the progress of science in his theory.

Free Research Field

文化人類学、医学（脳神経外科学）、放射線防護学