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What Might The Media’s Short Term Attention to Disasters Tell Us About Ourselves?
Tags: disaster, earthquake, haiti, japan, Libya, Media, Nuclear power plant
Added on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 to Articles and Featured sections.
One of the most interesting turn of events during the current nuclear crisis in Japan is how by Thursday, March 17, 2011 the ongoing drama of the catastrophe was displaced from the headlines by stories about the rebellion in Libya. Just as it…
Nuclear Power, Fears and the Limits of Democracy
Tags: Anthropology, disaster, japan, Media, Nuclear power plant, radiation
Added on Saturday, March 19th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
Keibo Oiwa, a Japanese cultural anthropologist and environmentalist, speaks to Democracy Now about the current nuclear crisis: And I’m really realizing again that, you know, democracy is so hollow now. I mean, we don’t have power. This is not…
On Japanese Suffering
Tags: disaster, earthquake, japan, Nuclear power plant, suffering
Added on Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.
“In Japanese culture, there’s a sort of nobility in suffering with a stiff upper lip, in mustering the spiritual, psychological resources internally,” said John Nelson, a cultural anthropologist and chairman of the department of theology and…
Nuclear Payouts: Knowledge and Compensation in the Chernobyl Aftermath
Tags: Chernobyl, disaster, Nuclear power plant, public health, radiation
Added on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 to Articles sections.
*This is a special feature from the second, atomic themed print issue of Anthropology Now.* “Nothing happened” When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in the early morning of April 26, 1986, it blasted a radioactive plume as high as…
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