The sacred and profane of Japan’s nuclear safety myth: On the cultural logic of framing and overflowing

• Main Author: SAITO, Hiro
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: cosmology; Fukushima; science and technology studies; sociotechnical imaginary; strong program; Asian Studies; Science and Technology Policy; Science and Technology Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3408; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4665/viewcontent/17499755211001046_with_cover_page_v2.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Any policy requires a ‘frame’ and, by the same token, entails an ‘overflow’, externalizing a certain part of the world as irrelevant. This mundane business of policy framing and overflowing became an urgent matter of concern in Japan in March 2011, as the Fukushima nuclear disaster exposed how the e...