| Summary: | Will it be possible for the farm families of Fukushima in the midst of radioactive pollution to revive an agricultural form of production based on personal relations of trust with consumers, including those in the farm-fresh market?The author of this article shows that the system in place for reparations is incapable of sufficiently responding to the damages sustained by individual farm families.While offering a critique of the system, the author analyzes the attempts made by the Farm Alliance of Fukushima (Nōminren) to link demands for reparations to the anti-nuclear power movement, labeling it an experiment in a deliberative form of democracy emerging from a subaltern counterpublic.
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