The imaginary and epistemology of disaster preparedness: The case of Japan's nuclear safety failure

• Main Author: SAITO, Hiro
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Developmental state;Disaster governance;Organizational failure;Political economy;Regulatory capture;Science and technology studies; Asian Studies; Emergency and Disaster Management; Political Economy; Politics and Social Change
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3788; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5046/viewcontent/S0304422X2100084X_pvoa_cc_by_nc_nd.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The Fukushima nuclear disaster was profoundly a man-made one, resulting from the organiza-tional failure of nuclear emergency preparedness. To fully understand the cause of this disaster, I propose to extend an organizational perspective on disasters into a macro-institutional perspec-tive on disast...