Maxime Polleri
Biographic Data
| ID | 119531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maxime Polleri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maxime |
| FAMILY NAME | Polleri |
| SIGNATURE | POLLERI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9645-4773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “incidents” that do not warrant such labeling. I explore how specific narratives around the Anthropocene …
Fukushima and the Politics of Nuclear Disaster Recovery
The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima, triggered by an earthquake and tsunami, was the worst nuclear power plant disaster in Japan’s history, bringing back painful memories of trauma associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While the aftermaths of Fukushima remain contentious, Japanese political elites have promoted a politics of recovery rather than a discourse of nuclear victimhood. This approach, which pushes aside competing vis…
Déchets
Le terme de déchet représente un objet normativement considéré comme indésirable au sein d’un système social particulier. Son intérêt ethnologique naît des analyses structuro-fonctionnalistes liées aux notions de pureté et de souillure. À partir des années 1960, plusieurs anthropologues examinent les expériences culturelles associées à la gestion de déchet afin de comprendre les contextes sociaux qui conduisent à l’acceptation ou au rejet de cert…
Towards an anthropology of misinformation
This article stresses the importance of further developing an anthropological approach to misinformation studies. It argues that misinformation studies should outgrow their dichotomy between truth and falsity to instead study misinformation as signals that reveal a range of narratives and experiences within specific issues, such as the causes of mistrust in experts' organizations. Drawing on case studies surrounding Covid-19, police brutality and…
The visible and invisible atom: From Hiroshima to Fukushima
Radioactive Performances: Teaching about Radiation after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and its release of radioactive contamination, the Japanese state put into motion risk communication strategies to explain the danger of radiation exposure. Through an ethnography of state-sponsored exhibits, hands on activity, and didactic centers aimed at providing radiation information, this article examines how state expertise on radiation hazards is increasingly being disseminated to the public vi…
Post-political uncertainties: Governing nuclear controversies in post-Fukushima Japan
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,…
Conflictual collaboration: Citizen science and the governance of radioactive contamination after the Fukushima nuclear disaster
In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, citizen scientists collectively tracked and monitored residual radioactivity in Japan, legitimizing alternative views to an official assessment of the radioactive contamination. But initial practices of resistance have evolved in collaboration with the official Japanese politics of radioactive governance, supporting hegemonic understandings of radiation danger and normative visions of postd…
Exchanging Business Cards in Japan: Oh! So you are an
This article uses the simple example of a Japanese business card as a threefold way to explore identity making, essentialist features, and what it is that anthropologists do. In Japan, the transmission of idealized forms of identity has been explained through numerous processes, such as national discourses or education. Yet, how stereotypical ways of being are reproduced and embedded in insignificant little things – like the worlds that collide o…
Tracking Radioactive Contamination after Fukushima
Disaster was on my mind. In five minutes, my 12-hour flight would land in Tokyo. Trapped in economy seating, I could not help but think of the well-traveled anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard, wh
Matters” of Importance: Contaminated Materiality in the Aftermath of the Fukushima Disaster
Contamination has been viewed as a form of invasion—an intrusion perpetrated by a group, a pernicious substance, or an unwanted agent. It is ‘the Other’ that has fascinated anthropologists for so long. We often assume that our current theory of knowledge about contamination is justified—although this current understanding fails to take into account the agency of contaminants themselves. Ideas about contamination throughout history have helped to …
Ethnographic Memories
This article explores the similarities between a memoir and an ethnographic work. A memoir stands as an historical account written from personal knowledge. It is a form of writing that should resonate deeply within the heart of the anthropologist, whose very own specificity is to be, first and foremost, an ethnographer. That is, anthropologists are individuals full of (hi) stories, contingence, and subjectivity, who nevertheless struggle to bring…
Conflictual collaboration: Citizen science and the governance of radioactive contamination after the Fukushima nuclear disaster
In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, citizen scientists collectively tracked and monitored residual radioactivity in Japan, legitimizing alternative views to an official assessment of the radioactive contamination. But initial practices of resistance have evolved in collaboration with the official Japanese politics of radioactive governance, supporting hegemonic understandings of radiation danger and normative visions of postd…
Post-political uncertainties: Governing nuclear controversies in post-Fukushima Japan
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,…
Tracking Radioactive Contamination after Fukushima
Disaster was on my mind. In five minutes, my 12-hour flight would land in Tokyo. Trapped in economy seating, I could not help but think of the well-traveled anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard, wh
Towards an anthropology of misinformation
This article stresses the importance of further developing an anthropological approach to misinformation studies. It argues that misinformation studies should outgrow their dichotomy between truth and falsity to instead study misinformation as signals that reveal a range of narratives and experiences within specific issues, such as the causes of mistrust in experts' organizations. Drawing on case studies surrounding Covid-19, police brutality and…
Ethnographic Memories
This article explores the similarities between a memoir and an ethnographic work. A memoir stands as an historical account written from personal knowledge. It is a form of writing that should resonate deeply within the heart of the anthropologist, whose very own specificity is to be, first and foremost, an ethnographer. That is, anthropologists are individuals full of (hi) stories, contingence, and subjectivity, who nevertheless struggle to bring…
Matters” of Importance: Contaminated Materiality in the Aftermath of the Fukushima Disaster
Contamination has been viewed as a form of invasion—an intrusion perpetrated by a group, a pernicious substance, or an unwanted agent. It is ‘the Other’ that has fascinated anthropologists for so long. We often assume that our current theory of knowledge about contamination is justified—although this current understanding fails to take into account the agency of contaminants themselves. Ideas about contamination throughout history have helped to …
Tracking Radioactive Contamination after Fukushima
Disaster was on my mind. In five minutes, my 12-hour flight would land in Tokyo. Trapped in economy seating, I could not help but think of the well-traveled anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard, wh
Exchanging Business Cards in Japan: Oh! So you are an
This article uses the simple example of a Japanese business card as a threefold way to explore identity making, essentialist features, and what it is that anthropologists do. In Japan, the transmission of idealized forms of identity has been explained through numerous processes, such as national discourses or education. Yet, how stereotypical ways of being are reproduced and embedded in insignificant little things – like the worlds that collide o…
Post-political uncertainties: Governing nuclear controversies in post-Fukushima Japan
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,…
Conflictual collaboration: Citizen science and the governance of radioactive contamination after the Fukushima nuclear disaster
In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, citizen scientists collectively tracked and monitored residual radioactivity in Japan, legitimizing alternative views to an official assessment of the radioactive contamination. But initial practices of resistance have evolved in collaboration with the official Japanese politics of radioactive governance, supporting hegemonic understandings of radiation danger and normative visions of postd…
The visible and invisible atom: From Hiroshima to Fukushima
Radioactive Performances: Teaching about Radiation after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and its release of radioactive contamination, the Japanese state put into motion risk communication strategies to explain the danger of radiation exposure. Through an ethnography of state-sponsored exhibits, hands on activity, and didactic centers aimed at providing radiation information, this article examines how state expertise on radiation hazards is increasingly being disseminated to the public vi…
Towards an anthropology of misinformation
This article stresses the importance of further developing an anthropological approach to misinformation studies. It argues that misinformation studies should outgrow their dichotomy between truth and falsity to instead study misinformation as signals that reveal a range of narratives and experiences within specific issues, such as the causes of mistrust in experts' organizations. Drawing on case studies surrounding Covid-19, police brutality and…
Déchets
Le terme de déchet représente un objet normativement considéré comme indésirable au sein d’un système social particulier. Son intérêt ethnologique naît des analyses structuro-fonctionnalistes liées aux notions de pureté et de souillure. À partir des années 1960, plusieurs anthropologues examinent les expériences culturelles associées à la gestion de déchet afin de comprendre les contextes sociaux qui conduisent à l’acceptation ou au rejet de cert…
Fukushima and the Politics of Nuclear Disaster Recovery
The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima, triggered by an earthquake and tsunami, was the worst nuclear power plant disaster in Japan’s history, bringing back painful memories of trauma associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While the aftermaths of Fukushima remain contentious, Japanese political elites have promoted a politics of recovery rather than a discourse of nuclear victimhood. This approach, which pushes aside competing vis…
The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “incidents” that do not warrant such labeling. I explore how specific narratives around the Anthropocene …
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Risk Perception and Management (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Fukushima Nuclear Accident (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Narrative (4 works)