Nuclear Ecologies

Art and Collaboration in post 3.11. Japan
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-96802-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Visual and Media Histories

This book traces the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011 and how art emerged as a powerful response to the socio-political and environmental consequences. Artists turned to collaborative and ecological practices to make sense of the crisis, challenging official narratives and responding to the violence of radioactive contamination.

Zielgruppe

Academic, General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deichert, Theresa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Folgen von Katastrophen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements. Author’s Note 1. Introduction 2. Metabolic Ecologies: Nonhuman Collaborations and the Affective Power of Contaminated Foodstuff 3. Utopian Democracies? Collaborations in Contested Spaces of Anti-Nuclear Activism 4. Cast in (In)visibility: Collaborations and the Exclusion Zone’s Ambiguity 5. Toxic Waste and “Pristine Nature”: Collaborations with Nonhuman Animals 6. Exposing Continuity: Nonhuman Collaborators as Nuclear History’s Witnesses 7. Taking Stock Bibliography. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Theresa Deichert is a curator at KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN, holding a PhD in Transcultural Studies from Heidelberg University and an MA in History of Art from UCL. Her research and curatorial work center on socio-political and ecological engagement in contemporary art. She has published in The Journal of Transcultural Studies, among others, and co-edited Imagining the Apocalypse (2022).