Chao Center for Asian Studies
The most recent issue of positions, 19.2, is now available online and in print. This special issue, titled “Vaginal Economy: Cinema and Sexuality in the Post-marcos, Post-Brocka Philippines,” was guest edited by Dean Rolando Tolentino, University of the Philippines.
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Cultural Anthropology, the journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, has begun a new forum “to report on current ‘hot spots’ in the world from the perspective of anthropologists—and others—on the scene,” called Hot Spots.
Its first focus is on Japan in the wake of the disasters of March 11 – the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear disaster.
From the Origins blog – “‘The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow’: The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan”
The devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan this past March left the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled and the world worrying about the consequences of this nuclear disaster. This month Craig D. Nelson looks at the long relationship the Japanese have had with nuclear power to explore the paradox of how the nation that suffered nuclear destruction in 1945 came to embrace nuclear energy so enthusiastically.
These Youtube videos feature discussion on whether the nuclear explosion and subsequent radiation exposure have been as bad at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as they were after the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine, in 1986.
