Post-political uncertainties: Governing nuclear controversies in post-Fukushima Japan
Post-political uncertainties: Governing nuclear controversies in post-Fukushima Japan
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后政治不确定性：福岛核事故后日本的核争议治理
作者：
M. Polleri
本文探讨了一系列围绕核电的作用和放射性污染的威胁在后福岛日本的公众争议。实证案例研究的重点是经济产业省（METI），日本最有影响力的部门，更重要的是，2011年福岛核灾难前的核能监管机构。通过对经济产业省公开会议的参与观察，以及对国家和非国家行为者的采访，我研究了核电的特定愿景如何继续影响国家行为者处理福岛后争议及其随后的不确定性的专家权威的基础。在福岛事件后的陈述中，经济产业省将核能视为日本民族国家和人类福祉的非政治必要性。它通过调动围绕特定政治场景（如全球变暖）的不确定性类别来做到这一点。对经济产业省来说，与放弃核电有关的潜在不确定性有可能引发比福岛放射性污染更大规模的政治动荡。出现了一种双重非政治化的形式，即福岛放射性污染问题通过被认为是“后政治”的优先事项而非政治化--即迫切需要立即采取行动，而不需要进行深入审议。我把这个过程称为建立“后政治不确定性”。这种去政治化引发了围绕有意义的公众参与决策的伦理问题，这些决策发生在政治和科学技术研究的交叉点上。
This article examines a set of public controversies surrounding the role of nuclear power and the threat of radioactive contamination in a post-Fukushima Japan. The empirical case study focuses on the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan’s most influential ministry and, more importantly, the former regulator of nuclear energy before the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Through participant observation of METI’s public conferences, as well as interviews with state and non-state actors, I examine how particular visions of nuclear power continue to affect the basis of expert authority through which state actors handle post-Fukushima controversies and their subsequent uncertainties. In its post-Fukushima representations, METI frames nuclear power as an apolitical necessity for the well-being of the Japanese nation-state and the common humanity. It does so by mobilizing categories of uncertainty around specific political scenes, such as global warming. For METI, the potential uncertainties linked with the abandonment of nuclear power have the power to trigger political turmoil of a higher scale than those linked with Fukushima’s radioactive contamination. A form of double depoliticization takes place, in which the issue of Fukushima’s radioactive contamination gets depoliticized through perceived priorities that are paradoxically depicted as ‘post-political’ – that is, in an urgent need for immediate action and not open to in-depth deliberation. I refer to this process as establishing ‘post-political uncertainties’. This kind of depoliticization raises ethical questions surrounding meaningful public participation in decisions that happen at the intersection of politics and science and technology study.
要求更安全的明天：2012 年夏天日本的反核集会
影响因子：
1.3
作者：
Akihiro
通讯作者：
Akihiro