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☢ Biopower and Biopolitics since Fukushima
Pablo de SotoPhD Student Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Second Annual Conference of Japan Association for Human Security Studies, Aichi University, Nagoya, Japan
09/30/2012 11:50h UTC+9h Videoconference
* How is the ongoing nuclear crisis being governed?
* What are the cultural responses?
* What new forms of social organization and subjectivity are taking place?
* How is it shaping democracy?
Research questions
“Es
"“It is my view that Oi Nuclear Plant reactors 3 and 4 should be restarted to protect the lives of citizens”. Yoshihiko Noda
"Saikado Hantai!"
"Kodomo o Mamoro!"
"Genpatsu Hantai!"
"Genpatsu Iranai!"
"Genpatsu Hanzai!"
‘Life and Politics
Negri & HardtFoucault
Biopower Biopolitics
Theories
Question: How the political categories of Biopower and Biopolitics can be re-introduced to redefine the new relationship between biology, the State and capitalism in contemporary Japan?
‘Biopower
TEPCO press conference: "Dont' worry about radiation"
Information Control
Evacuation
Radiation Exposure Limit
Food management
‘Biopoliticsof resistance
Swarming
Women at the core
Crowdsource radiation mapping and citizen science
Artists as activists
New global solidarity
• A rebelion in the field of life reproduction, against the naturalization of the nuclear catastrophe
• The formation of the ‘multitude’ and a struggle for a true -more participatory- democracy
What It's going on:
Global Crossroads
• Former Nuclear Power Plants going ahead life expectancy > bigger risk of accidents (Probability of maximum level accidents around 1,5%)
• Nuclear Energy is having big contestation worldwide. Democracy at stake
Koondakulam, India
Two protesters killed by police to start the reactors
