Two decades of ecosemiotics in Tartu

Maran, Timo

doi:10.12697/sss.2018.46.4.11

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“…To decenter radioecology as one of many models of ecological relations at play in coastal Fukushima and to better describe local residents' own theorization of the postfallout ecology in terms of en, I employ what Winfried Nöth (1998) and others call "ecosemiotics" (Kull 1998;Maran 2018;Maran and Kull 2014). Rooted in Peircean semiotics, ecosemiotics is an orientation that expands the linguocentric study of semiosis (sign process) by exploring sign-mediated relations between humans and the environment.…”

Section: Ethnography Of Falloutmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Wild Boar Chase: Ecology of Harm and Half-Life Politics in Coastal Fukushima

Morimoto¹

2022

Cult. Anthropol.

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This article explores how the Japanese state’s radiation-centered approach to ecological redress in postfallout costal Fukushima impacts a local framework of relationality called en/縁. By ethnographically tracing encounters between humans and wild boars in the region through an ecosemiotic lens, the essay articulates the differences and tensions between en and the model of relationality that the government’s decontamination policy enforces. In so doing, I decenter and unsettle the dominance of biomedically oriented, anxiety-driven toxic discourses of radiological threat. Against the narratives of anthropocentric exposure and nuclear victimhood that tend to encircle Fukushima since the nuclear accident, the article illuminates the multiscalar and semiotic issue that decontamination efforts catalyze. The essay argues that narrowly defining safety in terms of distancing radioisotopes from humans engages what I call a half-life politics of nuclear things, through which locals, wild boars, and the land itself are made complicit in the production of nuclear waste. 要旨東日本大震災と大津波に起因する東京電力福島第一原子力発電事故は地域の環境、さらに人と自然との関わりに甚大な影響を及した。事故後耕作放棄地となった土地には野生動物が進出し、汚染された作物を食べ被曝し、原発避難民のスムーズな帰還や、帰宅民の生活を脅かしている。この論文は福島県浜通り地域に出没するイノシシと、それに日々対応する南相馬、相馬市民との震災後の関係性を追い、日本政府による測定可能な放射線の有無に特化した環境除染政策がもたらす『縁』という世界観への影響を考察する。さまざまの物事を分断し続けている原子力災害を『縁』という万物のつながりの視点からアプローチすることにより、人間と放射性物質の関係性を生物的ダメージに特化して語るフォールアウト関連の学術的思考や、事故後の政策に見られる科学技術、汚染中心の『半減期的政治』とは異なる人と自然との関係性の考え方の重要性を示し、人間のみの被曝を減らす環境除染政策の問題点を論じる。

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Section: Ethnography Of Falloutmentioning

confidence: 99%