関 恒樹
Koki Seki

中空 萌
Moe Nakazora

西 真如
Makoto Nishi

長坂 格
Itaru Nagasaka

宮崎 広和
Hirokazu Miyazaki

吉田 真理子
Mariko Yoshida

松嶋 健
Takeshi Matsushima

関 恒樹
Koki Seki

中空 萌
Moe Nakazora

西 真如
Makoto Nishi

長坂 格
Itaru Nagasaka

宮崎 広和
Hirokazu Miyazaki

吉田 真理子
Mariko Yoshida

松嶋 健
Takeshi Matsushima

関 恒樹  教授

メール: seki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Koki Seki | Professor

Email: seki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Koki Seki is a professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Hiroshima University and specializes in anthropology of development and globalization and area study of the Philippines. His research interest is on the interactive processes of human lives and governmentality inherent in the modern regimes of social development and welfare state. More specifically, he focuses on the neoliberal restructuring of social policy and emerging sociality in the Global South. Currently, he examines contemporary urbanization, particularly the transformation of urban spatiality in the form of expansion of suburbs and urban frontiers, and observes what kind of sociality emanates from such urban processes as well as the emerging modes of citizenship, civil society, and public sphere. With the suburban space of metropolitan Manila in the Philippines as the ethnographic setting, he seeks to depict the coexistence and contestation of the resettlement areas of the poor and the gated communities of the middle class. Through such ethnography, his current research intends to delineate the urban ecology and metabolism enabled by the entanglement of humans and non-humans (nature, environment, materials, especially urban infrastructures such as housing and transportation). He is the author of City, Environment, and Transnationalism in the Philippines: Reconceptualizing “the Social” from the Global South (2022, Routledge), and editor of Ethnographies of Development and Globalization in the Philippines: Emergent Socialities and the Governing of Precarity (2020, Routledge).

中空 萌  准教授

メール: nakazora@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Moe Nakazora | Associate Professor

Email: nakazora@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Moe Nakazora is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University. Her research interests revolve around the anthropology of science, technology, and environment and multi-species ethnography regarding legality. She conducted multi-sited fieldwork in North India to illustrate what happens to various human and nonhuman actors when the global framework of “intellectual property rights” is introduced into the realm of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge (specifically traditional medicines) of India. The achievement of this research was published as a monograph, Chiteki shoyuken no jinruigaku: Gendai Indo no seibutsu shigen o meguru kagaku to zairaichi [Anthropology of Intellectual Property Rights: Biodiversity, Science, and Indigenous Knowledge in Contemporary India] (Sekaishisosha, 2019), which was awarded the 47th Shibusawa Award in 2020. Currently, she is engaging with research on a series of “Right of Nature (RoN)” litigations that create “legal personhood” for natural entities in North India and Amami Ōshima, Japan, to explore the relation between “man-made law” and “the laws of nature” or possibilities of a society which can include non-human beings as its members. Her recent English-language publications include “Environmental Law with Non-human Features in India: Giving Legal Personhood to the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers” (South Asia Research, 2023, forthcoming)”, “Database as an Experiment: Parataxonomy of Medicinal Plants as Intellectual Property in India” (East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 2022), and “Temporalities in translation: The making and unmaking of “folk” Ayurveda and bio-cultural diversity” (a book chapter article in The World Multiple: The Quotidian Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds, Routledge, 2018).

西 真如  准教授

メール: nishimakoto@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Makoto Nishi | Associate Professor

Email: nishimakoto@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Makoto Nishi is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University whose research concerns medical anthropology with a particular focus on the ethnography of care. He conducted fieldwork regarding the HIV epidemic in Ethiopia, the outbreak of epileptic encephalopathy in Northern Uganda, and end-of-life care for single older persons in Osaka, Japan. Currently, he is engaged in research concerning autistic care during the Covid time in Yokosuka, focusing on the effects of the “neoliberal shift” of the welfare regime in the backdrop of the capitalist-patriarchal orientation of the post-war Japanese society. His recent publications include “Care During the ART Scale-up: Surviving the HIV Epidemic in Ethiopia” (BioSocieties, forthcoming), “Jishuku, social distancing and care in the time of COVID-19 in Japan” (Social Anthropology, 2020), and a co-edited book Shingata Corona Virus to Jinruigaku: Pandemic to Tomo ni Kangaeru [Anthropology in Times of COVID-19: Thinking with the Pandemic] (Suiseisha, 2021).

長坂 格  教授

メール: nagasaka@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Itaru Nagasaka | Professor

Email: nagasaka@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Itaru Nagasaka has been conducting anthropological fieldwork on Filipino migration for more than 20 years. He started his first fieldwork in the rural areas of the Ilocos region in 1992. Since then, he has worked on Filipino transnational migration and did fieldwork in the Philippines, Italy, France, the UK and Japan. From 2009 to 2015, Nagasaka headed a research project funded by JSPS on the 1.5 generation Filipinos living in different countries. He is currently leading an international collaborative project on how Filipino workers in different countries have been affected by the Covid19 pandemic. Nagasaka is also the author of Filipino Transnational Villagers: Anthropology of Transnationalism (in Japanese, Akashi, 2009) and co-editor of Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families: Migrant Children with Similar Roots in Different Routes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

宮崎 広和  教授

メール: hirokazu.miyazaki@northwestern.edu

Hirokazu Miyazaki | Professor

Email: hirokazu.miyazaki@northwestern.edu

Hirokazu Miyazaki (BA, Sophia University; MA, Tokyo Metropolitan University, and Ph.D., Australian National University) has taught at Northwestern University since 2018, and has served as Professor (Special Appointment) at Hiroshima University since 2019. Miyazaki previously taught anthropology at Cornell University from 2002-2018. At Cornell he served as the director of the East Asia Program from 2011-2015 and the director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies from 2015-2018. In 2018, Miyazaki was appointed as a Nagasaki Peace Correspondent by Mayor Tomihisa Taue of Nagasaki. Miyazaki’s research revolves around theories of exchange and relationality. Miyazaki has completed ethnographic and archival research on indigenous Fijian gift exchange and land claims, Japanese financial derivatives trading, nuclear compensation, the U.S.-Japan friendship doll exchange of 1927, anti-nuclear and peace activism in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Catholicism in Japan. In these wide-ranging research projects, Miyazaki has sought to produce hope and trust across the divides between humans and nonhumans, the living and the dead, and generations. Miyazaki’s major English-language publications include The Method of Hope: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian Knowledge (Stanford University Press, 2004), Arbitraging Japan: Dreams of Capitalism at the End of Finance (University of California Press, 2013), The Economy of Hope (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), and Nuclear Compensation: Lessons from Fukushima (Northwestern University Libraries, 2021).

吉田 真理子  助教

メール: myoshida@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Mariko Yoshida | Assistant Professor

Email: myoshida@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Mariko Yoshida is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University. Her research is grounded in environmental anthropology’s interdisciplinary engagement with commodity chain analysis, feminist STS, blue humanities, and multispecies ethnography. Her work identifies the trajectory of ecological uncertainty and precariousness surrounding Pacific oyster aquaculture in Japan and Australia, illustrating how unevenly distributed values and meanings of nature have been dealt with by actors including oyster producers, marine biologists, biotechnological ventures, market distributors, and consumers. With multi-sited and multi-scalar approaches, she researches the political, discursive, and spatio-temporal processes of the liquid materiality of coastal waters, in which human entanglements with oysters, viruses, and nonhuman others shift and create new forces and agents. Her recent publications include a co-edited book Kuu, Kuwareru, Kuiau: Multispecies Minzokushi no Shiko [Eat, Consume, Symbiose: Exploring Food Systems from the Perspectives of Multispecies Ethnography]” (Tokyo: Seido-sha, 2021), a journal article “Scaling Precarity: The Material-Semiotic Practices of Ocean Acidification” (2019, Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology), and a book chapter article “Cultivating the Ocean: Reflections on Desolate Life and Oyster Restoration in Hiroshima” (2023, forthcoming).

松嶋 健  准教授

メール: mattak@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Takeshi Matsushima | Associate Professor

Email: mattak@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Takeshi Matsushima is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University. Based on his research in the field of community mental health in Italy, where psychiatric hospitals have been abolished, his work focuses on the ecology of psyche, society, and nature, while questioning the dichotomy between mind and body, culture and nature in the modern thought. Currently, through his research on dairy farming in Hokkaido, he examines the relationship between the Zomia way of subsistence under the modern state and freedom/autonomy, attempting to relocate human subjectivity within the subjectivity of nature. He is the author of Psiconautica: An Anthropology of Psychiatry in Italy (2014, Kyoto: Sekaishisosha), and co-editor of Trauma Studies 1: Surviving Traumatic Experiences (2018, Kyoto: Kyoto University Press), Trauma Studies 2: Sharing Traumatic Experiences (2019, Kyoto: Kyoto University Press).