Scribd Logo
Încărcați

Bine ați venit la Scribd!

  • Biopower and Biopolitics Since Fukushima

    Încărcat de

    Pablo De Soto
    316 vizualizări22 pagini
    This presentation is the result of field research in Japan during the winter of 2011/12. The goal of the study is to analyze the controversy and social & political conflict following the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant multiple reactors accident. How is this ongoing crisis being governed? What are the cultural and artistic responses? What new forms of social organization and subjectivity are taking place? How is it shaping democracy? The fieldwork consisted of active engagement in the antinuclear demonstrations and actions as well as being involved in the artistic scene in Tokyo. Several research trips to Fukushima prefecture were made to conduct interviews with the local residents and radiation refugees. The research, based on participatory experiences, will address perspectives of conflict about life and politics with reference to the incident and the regional reactions of the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant disaster. This paper seeks to connect the implications of the incident to Foucault`s concept of Biopower, as well as his concept of Biopolitcs redefined by Negri and Hardt. Foucault invented the concept of Biopower in order to define the application and impact of political power in all aspects of life. He created this theory after analyzing the relationship between biology, State and Industrial capitalism in the late 70s. Fundamental theory of Biopower addresses the role of government in managing life´s parameters. In the case of the Fukushima incident these relationships manifested to new levels of analysis and encourage the exploration of further methods of inquiry. The inquiry involves analysing roles of governance and includes the information disclosure on radioactivity levels, evacuation measures, the maximum legal exposure of children to radiation and food management for example. This paper will further analyze the role of biopolitics as the social response and resistance to biopower. In relation to the Fukushima incident, these forms of social response and resistance are represented in the role of women´s engagement in activism, the occupation and action at corporate and government buildings, hunger strikes and internet media-activism. This study will offer an analysis of how the political categories of Biopolitics and Biopower can be re-introduced and further redefine the relationship between biology, the State and contemporary capitalism in Japan and on a global scale.

    Drepturi de autor

    © Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA)

    Formate disponibile

    PDF sau citiți online pe Scribd

    Vi se pare util acest document?

    Este necorespunzător acest conținut?

    Raportați acest document
    This presentation is the result of field research in Japan during the winter of 2011/12. The goal of the study is to analyze the controversy and social & political conflict following the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant multiple reactors accident. How is this ongoing crisis being governed? What are the cultural and artistic responses? What new forms of social organization and subjectivity are taking place? How is it shaping democracy? The fieldwork consisted of active engagement in the antinuclear demonstrations and actions as well as being involved in the artistic scene in Tokyo. Several research trips to Fukushima prefecture were made to conduct interviews with the local residents and radiation refugees. The research, based on participatory experiences, will address perspectives of conflict about life and politics with reference to the incident and the regional reactions of the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant disaster. This paper seeks to connect the implications of the incident to Foucault`s concept of Biopower, as well as his concept of Biopolitcs redefined by Negri and Hardt. Foucault invented the concept of Biopower in order to define the application and impact of political power in all aspects of life. He created this theory after analyzing the relationship between biology, State and Industrial capitalism in the late 70s. Fundamental theory of Biopower addresses the role of government in managing life´s parameters. In the case of the Fukushima incident these relationships manifested to new levels of analysis and encourage the exploration of further methods of inquiry. The inquiry involves analysing roles of governance and includes the information disclosure on radioactivity levels, evacuation measures, the maximum legal exposure of children to radiation and food management for example. This paper will further analyze the role of biopolitics as the social response and resistance to biopower. In relation to the Fukushima incident, these forms of social response and resistance are represented in the role of women´s engagement in activism, the occupation and action at corporate and government buildings, hunger strikes and internet media-activism. This study will offer an analysis of how the political categories of Biopolitics and Biopower can be re-introduced and further redefine the relationship between biology, the State and contemporary capitalism in Japan and on a global scale.

    Drepturi de autor:

    Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA)
    Descărcați ca PDF sau citiți online pe Scribd
    Indicator pentru conținut neadecvat
    316 vizualizări22 pagini

    Biopower and Biopolitics Since Fukushima

    Încărcat de

    Pablo De Soto
    This presentation is the result of field research in Japan during the winter of 2011/12. The goal of the study is to analyze the controversy and social & political conflict following the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant multiple reactors accident. How is this ongoing crisis being governed? What are the cultural and artistic responses? What new forms of social organization and subjectivity are taking place? How is it shaping democracy? The fieldwork consisted of active engagement in the antinuclear demonstrations and actions as well as being involved in the artistic scene in Tokyo. Several research trips to Fukushima prefecture were made to conduct interviews with the local residents and radiation refugees. The research, based on participatory experiences, will address perspectives of conflict about life and politics with reference to the incident and the regional reactions of the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant disaster. This paper seeks to connect the implications of the incident to Foucault`s concept of Biopower, as well as his concept of Biopolitcs redefined by Negri and Hardt. Foucault invented the concept of Biopower in order to define the application and impact of political power in all aspects of life. He created this theory after analyzing the relationship between biology, State and Industrial capitalism in the late 70s. Fundamental theory of Biopower addresses the role of government in managing life´s parameters. In the case of the Fukushima incident these relationships manifested to new levels of analysis and encourage the exploration of further methods of inquiry. The inquiry involves analysing roles of governance and includes the information disclosure on radioactivity levels, evacuation measures, the maximum legal exposure of children to radiation and food management for example. This paper will further analyze the role of biopolitics as the social response and resistance to biopower. In relation to the Fukushima incident, these forms of social response and resistance are represented in the role of women´s engagement in activism, the occupation and action at corporate and government buildings, hunger strikes and internet media-activism. This study will offer an analysis of how the political categories of Biopolitics and Biopower can be re-introduced and further redefine the relationship between biology, the State and contemporary capitalism in Japan and on a global scale.

    Drepturi de autor:

    Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA)
    Descărcați ca PDF sau citiți online pe Scribd
    Indicator pentru conținut neadecvat
    din 22

    Biopower and Biopolitics since Fukushima

    PhD Student Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

    Pablo de Soto

    Second Annual Conference of Japan Association for Human Security Studies, Aichi University, Nagoya, Japan 09/30/2012 11:50h UTC+9h Videoconference

    Research questions

    * How is the ongoing nuclear crisis being governed? * What are the cultural responses? * What new forms of social organization and subjectivity are taking place? * How is it shaping democracy?

    Es

    "It is my view that Oi Nuclear Plant reactors 3 and 4 should be restarted to protect the lives of citizens. Yoshihiko Noda

    "Saikado Hantai!" "Kodomo o Mamoro!" "Genpatsu Iranai!"

    "Genpatsu Hantai!"

    "Genpatsu Hanzai!"

    Life and Politics

    Theories

    Foucault

    Negri & Hardt

    Biopower Biopolitics
    Question: How the political categories of Biopower and Biopolitics can be re-introduced to redene the new relationship between biology, the State and capitalism in contemporary Japan?

    Biopower

    TEPCO press conference: "Dont' worry about radiation"

    Information Control

    Evacuation

    Radiation Exposure Limit

    Food management

    Biopolitics of resistance

    Swarming

    Women at the core

    Crowdsource radiation mapping and citizen science

    Artists as activists

    New global solidarity

    What It's going on:

    A rebelion in the eld of life reproduction,


    against the naturalization of the nuclear catastrophe

    The formation of the multitude and a struggle


    for a true -more participatory- democracy

    Global Crossroads
    Former Nuclear Power Plants going ahead life
    expectancy > bigger risk of accidents (Probability of maximum level accidents around 1,5%) worldwide. Democracy at stake

    Nuclear Energy is having big contestation

    Koondakulam, India

    Two protesters killed by police to start the reactors

    @pablodesoto pablodesoto@gmail.com http://scoop.it/t/cartas-desde-fukushima

    S-ar putea să vă placă și