This podcast discusses the aftermath of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and food safety. The accident forced people to confront new risks in their lives and to question whether government policies would keep them safe. This led to the emergence of social movements in which citizens learned about the properties of radiation and how to source food that they considered safe.
Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University, and the author of the book “Food Safety After Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and the Politics of Risk” (2019, University of Hawai’i Press) . He specializes in the study of food and science and technology with a focus on Japan. He is a member of the transnational research network Sci-Tech Asia.
