We Live with the Sea : Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Littlejohn, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tsunamis--Japan--Safety measures.

Tsunamis.

Coastal engineering--Environmental aspects--Japan.

Coastal engineering.

Coastal ecology--Japan.

Coastal ecology.

Shore protection--Environmental aspects--Japan.

Shore protection.

Coastal zone management--Environmental aspects--Japan.

Coastal zone management.

Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"We Live with the Sea addresses safety infrastructures following the March 2011 tsunami in northeastern Japan. While the Japanese government proposed and enforced infrastructural transformations in the wake of the tsunami in the name of protection, these changes did not consider the impact on residents who built their communities and livelihoods around the coast. Focusing on the tsunami survivors who resisted government proposals for increased coastal defenses, Andrew Littlejohn highlights the local residents' alternative proposals considering the entanglements between the human and its environmental, ecological, and more-than-human dependencies and imbrications. In doing so he argues that the imposed modernist safety structures undermine the very thing they claim to protect, showing how attempts to "ecologize" safety may offer more sustainable ways of thinking about safety, infrastructure, and humanity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"Living with Everything Together"

"What Kind of Town This Was"

Histories of Entanglement

What Happened That Day

A Total System

Partitioning the Sensible

On Higher Ground

Protecting Otherwise

Ecologizing Safety

Political Becoming

"A Town Where We Live with the Sea" (Umi to ikiru machi).

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4780-6244-4

OCLC:

1595734434