Maxime Polleri
Maxime Polleri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval and a member of the Graduate School of International Studies. As an anthropologist of science and technology, he studies the governance of disasters and waste with a focus on nuclear topics.
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https://thebulletin.org/2023/10/fukushima-wastewater-issue-will-further-divide-a-nation-split-families-and-cause-atomic-divorce/
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2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster.
Picturing the Invisible provides a striking photographic portrait of communities living with radiation and trauma in Fukushima and neighboring prefectures, 10 years on.
10 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster the future of nuclear power in Japan still appears indecisive. I argue that it is doubtful that Japan will fully abandon nuclear power. This is not the result of political agendas. Instead, it has to do with particular visions of how nuclear power affects energy policies in ways that go beyond matters of electricity. In other words, pre-2011 visions associated with nuclear power and technologies still influence how Japan handles future uncertainties around energy policies. These four visions are linked with energy independence, “clean” energy, technical expertise, and international security. While Fukushima led to surface level political posturing and indecision around energy matters, the obdurate, enduring, and historically entrenched tropes that surround nuclear power have barely budged. This explains why Japan might not abandon nuclear power.
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/fukushima-citizen-science/
https://thebulletin.org/2023/10/fukushima-wastewater-issue-will-further-divide-a-nation-split-families-and-cause-atomic-divorce/
https://aeon.co/essays/life-in-fukushima-is-a-glimpse-into-our-contaminated-future
2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster.
Picturing the Invisible provides a striking photographic portrait of communities living with radiation and trauma in Fukushima and neighboring prefectures, 10 years on.
10 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster the future of nuclear power in Japan still appears indecisive. I argue that it is doubtful that Japan will fully abandon nuclear power. This is not the result of political agendas. Instead, it has to do with particular visions of how nuclear power affects energy policies in ways that go beyond matters of electricity. In other words, pre-2011 visions associated with nuclear power and technologies still influence how Japan handles future uncertainties around energy policies. These four visions are linked with energy independence, “clean” energy, technical expertise, and international security. While Fukushima led to surface level political posturing and indecision around energy matters, the obdurate, enduring, and historically entrenched tropes that surround nuclear power have barely budged. This explains why Japan might not abandon nuclear power.
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/fukushima-citizen-science/
The overall objective of this thesis is to update the impact of a given visual culture in the formation and construction of a female identity in Japan. This ideal, known as kawaii, advocates cuteness and childish behaviour. The female representations related to this ideal differ according to the different groups and locations analyzed. As a result, these variances have an important influence on the vision, perception and social acceptance of Japanese women, particularly when they are linked to their identity. The aesthetics of kawaii has been strongly criticized by the anthropological community. Cuteness has often been looked in a negative way as having harmful consequences for Japanese women. However, these judgments stem from a misunderstanding related to epistemological errors, as well as the misuse of the connotations of Japanese words. The hegemony attached to the ideal of kawaii mainly comes from an economic policy promoted by the government and known as Cool Japan. The female representations found in this policy are linked to the inferior state of Japanese women. Despite that, these images are not representative of identities and roles associated with Japanese women. They mainly reinforce cultural stereotypes. Through the kawaii phenomenon, intellectuals, be they Japanese or not, have often endorsed fixed identity and stereotyped gender roles for Japanese women, which are far from the reality of the younger generation.
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/857864
Thinking Can Help Earth Now. The MIT Press:
Cambridge, MA and London, 2020; 208 pp.: ISBN
9780262539265, US$25.00, £18.76 (pbk)
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Société française des études japonaises – French Society for Japanese Studies – フランス日本研究学会
https://nouvelles.ulaval.ca/2023/10/05/a-lere-des-desastres-a:e6995a11-e638-4f83-a0b8-8db7af834102
https://www.pentictonherald.ca/spare_news/article_3cde7a8d-dd47-50b5-931f-fbdf4f1588f3.html