Planetary atmospheres and urban society after Fukushima

Christophe Thouny, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (eds)

Palgrave Macmillan - Basingstoke

2017

This collection examines the events of Fukushima in Japan in terms of urban sociology and cultural politics, both as a planetary event and a dual economic and environmental crisis which indelibly marked Japan and the wider global community. It considers what cultural forms can express this situation, problematizing the national frame of analysis in terms of the concept of the planetary.