Piers R Williamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4222909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piers R Williamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piers R |
| FAMILY NAME | Williamson |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMSON P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Faculty of Media |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Imagining Insurance in Japanese High Schools during the Era of Rapid Modernisation
Individual private insurance is a risk-management practice that plays an important role in many people’s lives. Despite its prominence in industrialised countries, it remains an understudied area in Japan studies, where most work has focused on social insurance. Using insights from the governmentality literature, and in particular François Ewald’s concept of an ‘insurantial imaginary’, we examine the changing perceptions towards private non-life …
Risk Communication and the Disposal of Radioactive Debris
Between 2011 and 2014, the Japanese government conducted a 'wide-area processing' scheme to dispose of radioactive debris from Iwate and Miyagi prefectures following the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. The scheme was designed to hasten recovery in those areas by disposing of radioactive debris in other regions. Although 'wide-area processing' was open to localities in all 47 prefectures, only 18 participated. Out of the 18 participant…
Protecting people's livelihoods, restarting nuclear reactors
Given popular concerns about nuclear accidents in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, the Japanese state shut down the last of its fifty-four reactors for inspections on 5 May 2012, the first time the country had been without nuclear energy since May 1970. However, on 8 June 2012, in a nationwide address, Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko justified a resumption of nuclear power generation at the Oi nuclear plant in Oimachi, Fukui Prefecture. This art…
Risk and Securitization in Japan
IR scholars influenced by Ulrich Beck's 'risk society' school have emphasized a shift from a Cold War rationality of 'threat' to a post-Cold War rationality of 'risk'. This dissertation argues that the assumption of a post-Cold War change in rationality stems from a failure within the IR literature to clearly distinguish between 'threat' and 'risk'. In contrast, because scholars influenced by the work of Michel Foucault have noted that domestic '…
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Risk and Securitization in Japan
IR scholars influenced by Ulrich Beck's 'risk society' school have emphasized a shift from a Cold War rationality of 'threat' to a post-Cold War rationality of 'risk'. This dissertation argues that the assumption of a post-Cold War change in rationality stems from a failure within the IR literature to clearly distinguish between 'threat' and 'risk'. In contrast, because scholars influenced by the work of Michel Foucault have noted that domestic '…
Protecting people's livelihoods, restarting nuclear reactors
Given popular concerns about nuclear accidents in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, the Japanese state shut down the last of its fifty-four reactors for inspections on 5 May 2012, the first time the country had been without nuclear energy since May 1970. However, on 8 June 2012, in a nationwide address, Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko justified a resumption of nuclear power generation at the Oi nuclear plant in Oimachi, Fukui Prefecture. This art…
Risk Communication and the Disposal of Radioactive Debris
Between 2011 and 2014, the Japanese government conducted a 'wide-area processing' scheme to dispose of radioactive debris from Iwate and Miyagi prefectures following the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. The scheme was designed to hasten recovery in those areas by disposing of radioactive debris in other regions. Although 'wide-area processing' was open to localities in all 47 prefectures, only 18 participated. Out of the 18 participant…
Imagining Insurance in Japanese High Schools during the Era of Rapid Modernisation
Individual private insurance is a risk-management practice that plays an important role in many people’s lives. Despite its prominence in industrialised countries, it remains an understudied area in Japan studies, where most work has focused on social insurance. Using insights from the governmentality literature, and in particular François Ewald’s concept of an ‘insurantial imaginary’, we examine the changing perceptions towards private non-life …
Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Risk Perception and Management (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · 1945 (1 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (1 works) · Competition (biology) (1 works)