The Biocapital of Living–and the Art of Dying–After Fukushima
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16715486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicole Shukin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Postmodern Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1053-1920 • E-ISSN: 1053-1920 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/pmc.2016.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W2549013327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 7 |
After Fukushima, a tiny handful of “refuseniks” defied the government’s orders to evacuate a twenty-kilometer zone around the damaged reactors in the region. Rather than relocating to temporary shelters, several refuseniks remained in the zone to care for livestock who had been abandoned, and whose market value had been ruined by exposure to radiation. This essay formulates their defiance as an “art of dying” in order to amplify its potential to undermine resilience as a resource of the biopolitical and nuclear state, and to open up the possibility of a post-capitalist animality within the nuclear ruins
Business · Government (linguistics · Nuclear disaster · Nuclear plant · Order (exchange · Political science · State (computer science · Value (mathematics · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Philosophy · Risk Perception and Management
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |