Human Security and Japan's Triple Disaster (eBook, PDF)

Responding to the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis
Redaktion: Bacon, Paul; Hobson, Christopher

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Japan has been one of the most important international sponsors of human security, yet the concept has hitherto not been considered relevant to the Japanese domestic context. This book applies the human security approach to the specific case of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident that struck Japan on 11 March 2011, which has come to be known as Japan's 'triple disaster'. This left more than 15,000 people dead and was the most expensive natural disaster in recorded history.

The book identifies the many different forms of human insecurity that were produced or exacerbated within Japan by the triple disaster. Each chapter adds to the contemporary literature by identifying the vulnerability of Japanese social groups and communities, and examining how they collectively seek to prevent, respond to and recover from disaster. Emphasis is given to analysis of the more encouraging signs of human empowerment that have occurred. Contributors draw on a wide range of perspectives, from disciplines such as: disaster studies, environmental studies, gender studies, international relations, Japanese studies, philosophy and sociology.

In considering this Japanese case study in detail, the book demonstrates to researchers, postgraduate students, policy makers and practitioners how the concept of human security can be practically applied at a policy level to the domestic affairs of developed countries, countering the tendency to regard human security as exclusively for developing states.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317747475
• Artikelnr.: 41327940

Autorenporträt

Paul Bacon is Associate Professor, School of International Liberal Studies, and Deputy Director of the European Union Institute, Waseda University, Japan. Chris Hobson is Assistant Professor, School of Political Science and Economics Waseda University, Japan, and Visiting Research Fellow, United Nations University, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Human Security Comes Home: Responding to Japan's Triple Disaster Paul
Bacon and Christopher Hobson 2. The Politics of Human Security in Japan
Paul Bacon 3. Mismanaging Risk and the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Jeff
Kingston 4. Hidden Insecurities: The Workers of Fukushima Dai-ichi
Christopher Hobson 5. Human Security as a Military Security Left-Over, or
as Part of the Human Condition? Paul James 6. Human Security and Life
Recover: Lessons from the 1995 Kobe Earthquake and the 2011 Triple Disaster
Mayumi Sakamoto 7. Towards a People-centred Housing Recover after the
Triple Disaster Elizabeth Maly 8. An Ageing Society and Post-Disaster
Community Security Junko Otani 9. Post-disaster Recovery and the Cultural
Dimension of Human Security Akiko Fukushima 10. What Role for Nuclear Power
in Japan after Fukushima? A Human Security Perspective Paul Bacon and Mai
Sato 11. Towards Human Security: Climate Change and the Military Role in
Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response Andrew DeWit 12. Life after
the Triple Disaster: Human Security and the Future Christopher Hobson