Archiving the Remains of the Nuclear World: Citizen Radiation Detection Activities in Post-Nuclear Japan
Since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, more than 100 citizen radiation detection
labs have been established in Japan. In this talk, Kim addresses how citizen labs
produce, circulate, and contest radiation detection data not only to understand the
safety in the environment but also to archive the environmental injustice created
by the nation-state and nuclear industry. In exploring radiation contamination after
the disaster, citizen labs investigate how nuclear crises have affected the more-than-human
environment (Haraway 2015; Tsing 2013) beyond anthropocentric accounts. This project
also asks how citizens expand their understanding regarding nuclear crises beyond
Fukushima through radiation detection activities.
connect with us