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Maxime Polleri

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Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Université Laval. Author of “Radioactive Governance” (NYU, 2026). Japan, nuclear, disaster, waste. Personal website: www.maximepolleri.com

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The physical copies of my book "Radioactive Governance: The Politics of Revitalization in Post-Fukushima Japan" @nyupress.bsky.social have arrived! It will be officially out on January 6.
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#nuclear #disaster #Japan #Fukushima #atomic #radiation #catastrophe #anthropology #STS

25.11.2025 19:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My book has arrived #Japan #Anthropology #Shugendo #Buddhism #Shinto

13.11.2025 23:12 — 👍 30    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Nuclear Tests and Their Legacy of Harms in Asia-Pacific Nuclear “tests” are best conceptualized as environmental disasters with consequences that are still felt today, particularly in Oceania and Central Asia.

As nuclear tensions rise again, history offers a warning: every “test” left real victims and poisoned lands. CISAC Affiliate, @maximepolleri.bsky.social revisits the lasting consequences of nuclear weapons testing in his latest for @thediplomat.com
thediplomat.com/2025/11/nucl...

12.11.2025 17:19 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Radioactive Governance Examines the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster

Discover Polleri's forthcoming book, "Radioactive Governance: The Politics of Revitalization in Post-Fukushima Japan" (January 2026).

This rich ethnographic study reveals how Japan transformed the disaster into a narrative of hope and resilience.

Pre-order your copy here: buff.ly/XjknX9e

05.11.2025 21:49 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Nuclear Tests and Their Legacy of Harms in Asia-Pacific Nuclear “tests” are best conceptualized as environmental disasters with consequences that are still felt today, particularly in Oceania and Central Asia.

Nuclear "tests" weren't just experiments. They were environmental disasters with devastating consequences still felt today.

In @thediplomat.com, Maxime Polleri examines how the US, France, China, and USSR exported nuclear testing to vulnerable populations.

Read the piece: buff.ly/Fsiq3Xm

05.11.2025 21:49 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Nuclear Tests and Their Legacy of Harms in Asia-Pacific Nuclear “tests” are best conceptualized as environmental disasters with consequences that are still felt today, particularly in Oceania and Central Asia.

Nuclear “tests” are best conceptualized as environmental disasters with consequences that are still felt today, particularly in Oceania and Central Asia.
thediplomat.com/2025/11/nucl...
#nuclear #atomic #test #security #radiation #radioactivity #disaster #catastrophe #thermonuclear #weapon

05.11.2025 18:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Je donnerai une conférence ce samedi intitulée "Catastrophes: une perspective anthropologique" pour L'Association des anthropologues du Québec (AANTHQ). DATE: Samedi 1er novembre 2025, dès 10h
OÙ : Université Laval, Québec Pavillon Charles-De Koninck Salle DKN-3470
#désastre #catastrophe

30.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You can save 30% on my upcoming book with the following code: NYUAU30
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#disaster #catastrophe #nuclear #Japan #governance #atomic #Fukushima #risk #recovery #resilience #STS #anthropology

30.10.2025 13:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Radioactive Governance Examines the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disasterThe 2011 Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear disaster was the worst industrial nuclear catastrophe to hit Ja...

Thanks to Robert (Bo) Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social for the praises on my forthcoming book. I also highly recommend his book "Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha", which will make you rethink the whole concept of nuclear security.

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

nyupress.org/978147983683...

25.09.2025 18:34 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Tonight! RSVP to join the livestream at 6:30 pm ET!

23.09.2025 15:20 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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for the 86th SfAA Annual Meeting 17th - 21st March 2026 Albuquerque, New Mexico. Risk & Disaster Call: https://bit.ly/SfAA2026; SfAA Annual Meeting: https://appliedanthro.org/annual-meeting."

Black text on a yellow background that reads "Risk & Disaster TIG Call for Panels & Papers for the 86th SfAA Annual Meeting 17th - 21st March 2026 Albuquerque, New Mexico. Risk & Disaster Call: https://bit.ly/SfAA2026; SfAA Annual Meeting: https://appliedanthro.org/annual-meeting."

Join the Risk & Disaster TIG at #SfAA2026 in #Albuquerque! Learn more about submitting a Risk & Disaster TIG panel or paper at https://bit.ly/SfAA2026. Learn more about the conference in general at appliedanthro.org/an... #RDTIG2026 #AppliedAnthropology #Anthropology

12.09.2025 17:00 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Mal-Nutrition by Emily Yates-Doerr - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

As of today, my new book is available in the open access Luminos series of @ucpress.bsky.social. (This means you & your students can download it for free).

Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm.

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www.ucpress.edu/books/mal-nu...

13.11.2024 16:53 — 👍 55    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 3
Fukushima and the Politics of Nuclear Disaster Recovery The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima, triggered by an earthquake and tsunami, was the worst nuclear power plant disaster in Japan’s history, bringing back painful memories of trauma associated with the atom...

In our new issue, @maximepolleri.bsky.social‬ explains the contentious politics of Japan's ongoing recovery from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

12.09.2025 19:33 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Come see our panel for the last day of 4S
"Critical Nuclear Studies in STS: Recent Insights and Challenges" 1:30 to 3:20 PM
Summit (Convention Center)
327-329

@4sweb.bsky.social @4sonline.bsky.social

06.09.2025 17:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Fukushima and the Politics of Nuclear Disaster Recovery The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima, triggered by an earthquake and tsunami, was the worst nuclear power plant disaster in Japan’s history, bringing back painful memories of trauma associated with the atom...

I’ve got a new piece in Current History that analyzes the aftermath of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. It’s an easy read if you want to understand the post-recovery politics of this disaster without the usual academic jargon.

online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
#Japan #nuclear #disaster #recovery

02.09.2025 15:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Volume 124 Issue 863 | Current History | University of California Press

Our annual China and East Asia issue is out! With Meg Rithmire on China’s unbalanced economy, ‪@pammcelwee.bsky.social‬ on Vietnam War ecocide, @maximepolleri.bsky.social‬ on Fukushima nuclear recovery, Dominik M. Müller (@fau.de‬) on generational change in Brunei…
online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...

29.08.2025 20:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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🛠️ [Volume 2] What is ‘(un)Making’ STS Ethnographies? – Part 2

👤Edited by Tania Pérez-Bustos, Santiago Martinez Medina & Fredy Mora-Gámez

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/ttap20/2/1?nav=tocList
#Tapuya2 #OpenAccess #STS

29.08.2025 18:37 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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New issue alert! The September issue of American Anthropologist is out now. It features two special sections, a year-in-review article, a multimodal collection on vanishing fieldsites, and more! #Anthropology

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481433...

28.08.2025 16:22 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Last 3 days to submit abstract proposals to the AES online special collection on ‘Promised Futures’!

28.08.2025 16:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Radioactive Governance Examines the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disasterThe 2011 Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear disaster was the worst industrial nuclear catastrophe to hit Ja...

I'm happy to say that my book called "Radioactive Governance: The Politics of Revitalization in Post-Fukushima Japan" will be out with New York University Press in January 2026.

nyupress.org/978147983683...

#nuclear #atomic #Japan #Fukushima #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #disaster #Chernobyl #governance

18.08.2025 13:58 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

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