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How does environmental crisis become the impetus for a kind of caring that is also intense thinking? Faced with Fukushima, how do people make sense of nuclear enormity? Care, Kin, Crack‑Up examines Japanese literature and activist narratives to show people at their most creative when struggling to engage ecological catastrophe as the “intrusion of Gaia.” Margherita Long explores the transformation of crack-ups (kurui, or madness) into art and thought, tracing how kurui is bound up with questions of care and kin. Reframing historical debates about Japan’s postwar peace constitution, military sexual slavery, and Minamata mercury poisoning, this book opens environmental humanities in feminist directions, drawing on ideas from Indigenous studies, disability studies, and Deleuze.
Margherita Long is Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and author of This Perversion Called Love: Reading Tanizaki, Feminist Theory, and Freud.
“A moving, articulate, and powerful reflection on the afterlives engendered in Fukushima’s nuclear accident—those of survivors, along with teachers, doctors, filmmakers, and writers, who expand and spread a mode of care and research that creates new forms of living, alongside new types of art, science, and ethics. This is a book about what lives and develops ways of thriving, new forces and forms of engagement with the world, even under the most complex, convoluted, and difficult conditions.”—Elizabeth Grosz, Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Distinguished Professor Emerita, Duke University
“At a time when we are inescapably entangled with our degraded environment, Margherita Long reminds us how care and kin-making can lead to radically new ways of imagining intellectual and creative work. A bold, bracing, and ultimately hopeful book.”—Ayako Kano, author of Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor
“In her highly instructive and beautifully conceptualized account of Fukushima literature, Long not only provides a broad and generous synthesis of the relevant scholarship in English and Japanese but also forces the reader to rethink the received wisdom in ways that are at once surprising, persuasive, and welcome.”—Thomas Lamarre, author of The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media