The Frame Alignment Process in Environmental Movements around <i>Tokorozawa</i>, <i>Saitama</i>

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  • 所沢ダイオキシン公害調停運動におけるフレーム調整過程
  • トコロザワ ダイオキシン コウガイ チョウテイ ウンドウ ニ オケル フレーム チョウセイ カテイ

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<p>Frame analysis has been widely adopted by sociologists who have engaged in the study of social movements since the 1990s. In this paper, I analyze the frame alignment process of environmental movements around Tokorozawa, Saitama in Japan.</p><p>There were many industrial waste incinerators around Tokorozawa in the 1990s and people living around the incinerators started an anti-pollution movement but their movement didn’t gain much attention from the wider public. We can say they used a “personal damage frame” which emphasized personal damage caused by smoke and fire from industrial waste incinerators. In 1995, one scientist came and measured the exhaust of dioxins, which had caused a great deal of public concern. This resulted in a frame conversion from a “personal damage frame” to a “dioxin frame”. The “dioxin frame” included the concept of environmental pollution, which had resulted in a wider concern. But administrators didn’t take enough suitable countermeasures. So, an enlarged movement led to a frame re-conversion to a “local environment frame” and legal action against the local government was begun.</p><p>The “local environment frame” meant that the enlarged movement aimed at, not only dealing with personal damage from certain incinerators, but all incinerators in the vicinity. This frame included the local resident’s desire to save the local environment by them. In the final analysis, there was recognition of the local people’s “confrontedness” to the problem.</p>

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