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The experiences of socially-marginalised individuals with Minamata disease provide clues to understand Hatakeyama’s puzzling behaviours with the MSN. In particular, it is the life experience of one fisherman with Minamata disease, Masato Ogata. Ogata was a fisherman from a poor village and had gone through struggles with discrimination. He had also fought for the rights of victims suffering from Minamata disease. Ogata’s experiences provide clues to understanding the causes behind the issue of disempowerment of Hatakeyama, which stems from the epistemological power differentials.
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Notes
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NCC changed the company name to JNC Corporation in 2011 (JNC, 2017).
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Acetaldehyde is used as the agent to produce plastic material.
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The University of Kumamoto found that the methyl mercury in the NCC’s waste water caused Minamata disease in 1959. However, this finding was concealed by the Kumamoto Municipal government and NCC until 1968 (Harada, 1995).
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Noguchi, F. (2022). Rethinking ESD from the Perspective of a Socially-Marginalised Individual. In: Rethinking Education for Sustainable Development in a Local Community Context. Education for Sustainability, vol 6. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9464-6_5
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