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The Fukushima Catastrophe

To What End?

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Authors:
  1. Kin Chi Lau

    1. Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China

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  2. Huang **aomei

    1. Hong Kong, China

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  3. He Zhixiong

    1. Yongji, China

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  • Analyzes the catastrophe at Fukushima
  • Discusses collective action to confront nuclear disaster
  • Explores the violent essences of modernism and science

Part of the book series: Global University for Sustainability Book Series (GUSBS)

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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.

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. Introduction: No Solutions in Sight, Making Possible the Impossible—Lau Kin Chi

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 1-9

  3. Introduction: Education for Ecological Justice and Social Justice—Cultivating the Capacity for Affect, Thinking, Autonomy and Action—Lau Kin Chi

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 11-22

  4. Introduction: When We Talk About Nuclear Energy, What Are We Talking About? Huang **aomei

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 23-24

  5. Introduction: We Are in a Critical State—He Zhixiong

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 27-29

  6. What Happened in Fukushima?

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 31-36

  7. Natural Disasters or Human-Caused Calamity

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 37-41

  8. Fairy Tale of Astro Boy

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 43-48

  9. Three Questions on Nuclear Power

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 49-60

  10. The Long Road Home

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 61-69

  11. Revival? Clearing Evacuees to Zero?

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 71-81

  12. Glint of Hope Ignited by the Olympic Torch?

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 83-86

  13. Where did Contaminated Substances Go?

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 87-95

  14. Heart of Darkness—The Molten Reactor Core

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 97-103

  15. Returning to the Scene: “Back Then, How Nice It Would Have Been, If Only …”

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 105-108

  16. Absent Supervision

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 109-113

  17. Radioactive Contamination Spread Worldwide—The Threat from Nuclear-Contaminated Water

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 115-124

  18. Who Protects Decontamination Workers and Nuclear Energy Workers?

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 125-131

  19. Mourning of Nature

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 133-139

  20. From Nuclear Weapon to Nuclear Energy, From Nuclear Energy to Nuclear Weapon

    • Lau Kin Chi, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong
    Pages 141-145
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China

    Kin Chi Lau

  • Hong Kong, China

    Huang **aomei

  • Yongji, China

    He Zhixiong

About the authors

Lau Kin Chi is Coordinator, Programme on Cultures of Sustainability at the Centre for Cultural Research and Development, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China.

Huang **aomei 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.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Fukushima Catastrophe

  • Book Subtitle: To What End?

  • Authors: Kin Chi Lau, Huang **aomei, He Zhixiong

  • Translated by: Alice Chan

  • Series Title: Global University for Sustainability Book Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1956-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1955-0Published: 13 December 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1958-1Due: 13 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-1956-7Published: 12 December 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2752-7379

  • Series E-ISSN: 2752-7387

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 161

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 60 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Asian Politics, Civil Law, Environmental Economics

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