This episode features a conversation with Andrew Littlejohn, assistant professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University. He specializes in environmental anthropology and political ecology, with a particular focus on Japan. Littlejohn currently heads the project “Climate Citizenship: Infrastructures, Environments, and Democracy in the Era of Climate Change,” for which he received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. In this episode, Littlejohn mostly discusses his new book, We Live with the Sea: Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan, published this past July by Duke University Press. Beginning with the massive earthquake and tsunami that occurred in East Japan in March 2011, the book examines the contestations over recovery and the varied proposals designed to mitigate and prevent future disasters.
The audio composition discussed and excerpted at the end of the episode is called \"Shizugawa.\" Listeners can read about the piece and listen to more of the audio here: https://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=18621
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