Fall-out from Fukushima

This book shows how the Fukushima plaintiffs have challenged narratives of safety and risk containment produced by TEPCO and the Japanese government through offering new empirical data on risk perceptions and life choices of some nuclear evacuees.

Giulia De Togni is a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on risk, technology, and health. She received her MSc in social anthropology from Oxford University (2015) and a PhD in social anthropology from UCL (2019) with dissertations focused on Fukushima.

1. The Politics of Risk in a Disaster Archipelago Part 1: Risk Perceptions, Worldviews, and Individual Choices of Nuclear Evacuees 2. Life After Fukushima 3. Loss of Homeland 4. Food Safety Under the Radiation Threat Part 2: Collective Civil Actions Against TEPCO and the Government 5. Nuclear Evacuees Seeking Compensation 6. Competing Narratives in the Courtroom 7. Female Plaintiffs Reshaping Gender Inequality 8. The Emancipatory Effects of Fukushima