The Sociology of Disaster and Technoscience: Public Knowledge and Sustainability Beyond Fukushima

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The Sociology of Disaster and Technoscience: Public Knowledge and Sustainability Beyond Fukushima

Thursday, July 17, 2014: 10:30 AM-12:20 PM

Room: Booth 44

RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology (host committee)

Language: English

Session Organizer:

Miwao MATSUMOTO, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Co-chairs:

Cathryn CARSON, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Paul EDWARDS, University of Michigan, US, USA

Discussant:

Cathryn CARSON, University of California, Berkeley, USA

412.1

Structural Disaster and Infinite Responsibility behind Institutionalized Forbearance (Oral Presentation)
Miwao MATSUMOTO, The University of Tokyo, Japan

412.2

Global Atomic Inequalities: Marginal Work in the Nuclear Sector (Oral Presentation)
Gabrielle HECHT, University of Michigan, USA

412.3

Radiation Risks and the Hermeneutics of Low-Doses: A Chronic Disaster? (Oral Presentation)
Paul JOBIN, University of Paris, Diderot, France

412.4

Ongoing Disaster: Fukushima, Complex Technological Systems and Uncertainties (Distributed Paper)
Jose Luis GARCIA, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal; Helena Mateus JERONIMO, University of Lisbon, Portugal