Radioactive Mosquito Bite and Its Surreal Life

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI:10.1215/08992363-10742481

Ryo Morimoto

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Abstract

Abstract The article explores the tensions between the state, science, and the lived experience among the residents in the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima. The author proposes the analytics of the “surreal” to apprehend the incommensurable divide invisible radiation in society had produced between the state's techno-scientific focus on making the radiation visible and people's diverse everyday experience of radiation in various aspects of life. Ethnographically retelling the struggles of a medical doctor who came to understand the manifold consequences of the accident in coastal Fukushima, the article shows how social science is a critical stakeholder in addressing the surreal to mediate between science and the lay public, the state and citizen, and risk and life to prevent the individuation of risk perceptions that follow with the emergence of invisible hazards in society.

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放射性蚊子叮咬及其超现实生活

本文探讨了2011年福岛核事故后，国家、科学和居民生活经验之间的紧张关系。作者提出了对“超现实”的分析，以理解社会中不可见的辐射在国家对使辐射可见的技术科学关注与人们在生活的各个方面对辐射的多样化日常体验之间所产生的不可公度的鸿沟。这篇文章以民族志的方式重新讲述了一位医生的挣扎，他开始理解福岛沿海事故的多重后果，这篇文章展示了社会科学如何成为解决超现实主义的关键利益相关者，在科学与普通公众、国家与公民、风险与生命之间进行调解，以防止随着社会中无形危险的出现而出现的风险感知的个性化。

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Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

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期刊介绍： Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU. A four-time CELJ award winner, Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks. Artists, activists, and scholars, both well-established and younger, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture.