Aya Hirata Kimura

Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists

The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima

Following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 2011 many concerned citizens—particularly mothers—were unconvinced by the Japanese...

Hidden Hunger

Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods

For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the inte...

Science by the People

Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental Knowledge

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