TAKEZAWA Yasuko

TAKEZAWA Yasuko

Professor

Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University

Personal HP:http://kyodo.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takezawa/

Curriculum Vitae:

1989   Ph.D. in anthropology: research of ethnicity (people of Japanese descent in the USA) at Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.
1990   Lecturer at the Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1990-1999   Tsukuba University.
1999~   Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University.
1990~   Affiliate professor at the University of Washington. Specialties: cultural anthropology, sociology, American studies. Main research fields: race, ethnicity, migration.

Main scholarly achievements:

Books:
1. 1994, The transformation of Japanese American ethnicity: the effects of internment and redress (in Japanese), Tokyo University.
2. 1995, Breaking the Silence: Redress and Japanese American Ethnicity, Cornell University Press.
3. 2003, “Race and the American anthropology” (in Japanese) in Ayabe Tsuneo (ed.) The Frontier of Cultural Anthropology, Minerwa, pp. 3-30.
4. 2002 “Nikkeijin and “Multicultural Coexistence” in Japan: Kobe after the Great Earthquake” in New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, et.al. ed., Stanford University Press, 310-330.
5. 2005, “The dilemma of identity politics: The USA today” (in Japanese) in Kajita Takamichi (ed.) Transnational global, Nagoya University, pp.220-237.
6. 2005, “Transcending the Western Paradigm of the Idea of Race” in The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 16: 5-30.
7. 2007, “’Partnership towards a Tabunka Kyōsei’society: The development of the cooperation between self-governing bodies and NGOs in Hyōgo Prefecture” (in Japanese) in The modernity of ‘watched people’, Osaka: Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Research Institute.
8. 2008, ‘Tabunka Kyōsei’ and Community-Rebuilding After the Kobe Earthquake’, In Multiculturalism in the New Japan: Crossing the Boundaries Within Japan, Ertl, John and Kenji Tierney eds., Berghahn Books.

Edited books:
9. 2005, Takezawa Yasuko (ed.), Is race a universal idea? : Transcending the Western paradigm (in Japanese), Jinbun shoin.
10. 2009, The representation of race and social reality, Iwanabe shoten.

Research Subject and Research Plan for the GCOE Program:

 At present, I am a representative of an international joint research program concerning the representation of race and social reality. Besides, , as a single researcher, I am also investigating the identity and self-expression of Asian American artists through interviews, as well as, the issue of multi-cultural co-existence in Kobe. My specialty is race and ethnicity, as well as, migration. Main research areas are the USA and Japan. As to the present GCOE program, I intend to make contributions to the research field of Asian migrants.

Committee:
September 2006 Science Council of Japan, Area Studies, Anthropology Section (manager)
January 2009 Science Council of Japan, Area Studies, Multi-Cultural Co-Existence Section (vice chairperson)
September 2006 Science Council of Japan, Area Studies, Physical Anthropology Section
1996-1999 Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (Science Council of Japan Survey Committee member)
The Japanese Association for American Studies (board member: 2004?/ conference member: 2002?/ associate editor of The Japanese Journal of American Studies: 2000?2004)
The Japanese Association for Migration Studies (promotion committee member: 2000?;editing committee member: 1996-98)

Research Project:

1998-2001   Participant Researcher at the International Nikkei Research Project (Japanese American National Museum)
2005-2006   Researcher at the program of Race and Science (Harvard University)
2001-2004   Research representative of the International Basic Research concerning the Concept of Race and Existence at the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B2
2006-2010   Research representative of the ‘Interdisciplinary Study of Representation and Expression of Race’ (JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research A)
2006-2008   Research representative of the ‘Multicultural Cohesive Society’ Program (The Hyōgo Earthquake Commemoration 21st Century Research Organization)
2009-2010   Research representative of the ‘Representation of Race and Ethnicity in Japan from a Global Perspective’ Program

 

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