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Becoming One:Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar
No full textInternational development programs strive not only to alleviate poverty but to transform people, aid workers and recipients alike. Becoming One grapples with this process by exploring the work of OISCA*, a prominent Japanese NGO in central Myanmar. OISCA’s postwar origins at the intersection of Shinto, secularism, and rightwing politics, and its vision of inter-Asian solidarity and a sustainable future helped shape the organization’s ideology and activities. By delving into the world of its aid workers—their everyday practices, discourses, and aspirations—author Chika Watanabe seeks to understand the NGO’s political, social, and ethical effects.
At OISCA training centers, Japanese and local staff teach sustainable agricultural skills and organic farming methods to rural youth. Much of the teaching involves laboring in the fields, harvesting produce, and caring for livestock: what they can’t use themselves is sold at nearby markets. Watanabe’s detailed and multi-sited ethnography shows how Japanese and Burmese actors mobilize around the idea of “becoming one” with Mother Earth and their human counterparts within a shared communal lifestyle. By exploring the tension between intentions and political effects—spanning environmentalism, cultural-nationalist ideologies of “Japaneseness,” and aspirations to make the world a better place—Watanabe highlights fascinating questions and both positive and negative outcomes.
Becoming One weaves together vivid descriptions of the intensive, intimate, and “muddy labor” of “making persons” (hitozukuri) with the wider historical resonances of these efforts, decentering common understandings of development, NGOs, and their moral and political promises. This engaging and thought-provoking book combines insights from anthropology, development studies, and religious studies to add to our understanding of modern Japan.
*Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement
The open-access edition of this title was made possible with generous support from the University of Manchester.The open-access edition of this title was made possible with generous support from the University of Manchester
Etnografia de Retalhos: Diálogos, dilemas e perspectivas metodológicas feministas para a antropologia
No full textIn this material are compiled the Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography Portuguese translation and an unpublished interview with two of its authors, Chika Watanabe and Gökçe Günel. The interview took place in July 2022 through the Zoom platform and helped us to learn more about the dilemmas and perspectives of the ethnography proposal defended by the researchers. The meeting also served to support and improve the translation that was in progress, allowing direct dialogue about the patchwork approach and the identification of the ways in which the proposal could resonate in Brazilian academia.Neste material estão compiladas a tradução para o português do Manifesto por uma Etnografia de Retalhos e uma entrevista inédita realizada com duas de suas autoras, Chika Watanabe e Gökçe Günel. A entrevista aconteceu em julho de 2022, através da plataforma Zoom, e serviu para conhecer os dilemas e as perspectivas da proposta de etnografia defendida pelas pesquisadoras. O encontro também serviu para amparar e refinar o exercício de tradução que estava em andamento, permitindo o diálogo direto a respeito da abordagem de retalhos e a identificação das formas com que a proposta pode ecoar na academia brasileira
Etnografia de Retalhos: Diálogos, dilemas e perspectivas metodológicas feministas para a antropologia
Get PDFNeste material estão compiladas a tradução para o português do Manifesto por uma Etnografia de Retalhos e uma entrevista inédita realizada com duas de suas autoras, Chika Watanabe e Gökçe Günel. A entrevista aconteceu em julho de 2022, através da plataforma Zoom, e serviu para conhecer os dilemas e as perspectivas da proposta de etnografia defendida pelas pesquisadoras. O encontro também serviu para amparar e refinar o exercício de tradução que estava em andamento, permitindo o diálogo direto a respeito da abordagem de retalhos e a identificação das formas com que a proposta pode ecoar na academia brasileira.In this material are compiled the Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography Portuguese translation and an unpublished interview with two of its authors, Chika Watanabe and Gökçe Günel. The interview took place in July 2022 through the Zoom platform and helped us to learn more about the dilemmas and perspectives of the ethnography proposal defended by the researchers. The meeting also served to support and improve the translation that was in progress, allowing direct dialogue about the patchwork approach and the identification of the ways in which the proposal could resonate in Brazilian academia
Everything is Patchwork!:A Conversation about Methodological Experimentation with Patchwork Ethnography
No full textThis article collectively discusses creative feminist approaches to ethnographic methods developed in response to challenging social, personal, environmental, and temporal conditions and pressures. Patchwork Ethnography, developed by Gökçe Günel, Saiba Varma and Chika Watanabe, recognises mundane pressures, and works with insights and experiences that emerge not only from doing research, but from what happens around the edges. By rendering the many ‘seams’ of research visible and valuable, their approach aims to develop creative, kind, and more generous–yet no less robust–research realities. Drawing inspiration from Patchwork Ethnography this article takes a creative approach to the craft of conversation, valuing the fragments, drawing attention to edges and intersections of our collective thinking, research, and experiences and stitching them together into a unique patchworked piece. Throughout, in the spirit of the theme of this special issue, we ask what kinds of ethnographic methods can create new and different futures? What are, or could be, feminist futures of ethnography?.</p
Supplemental Material, Nakashima(SupFig1)2018-6-11(3) - A Liquid Chromatography with Tandem Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomic Analysis of the Proteins Secreted by Human Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells
No full textSupplemental Material, Nakashima(SupFig1)2018-6-11(3) for A Liquid Chromatography with Tandem Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomic Analysis of the Proteins Secreted by Human Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Yoshiki Nakashima, Saifun Nahar, Chika Miyagi-Shiohira, Takao Kinjo, Zensei Toyoda, Naoya Kobayashi, Issei Saitoh, Masami Watanabe, Jiro Fujita, and Hirofumi Noguchi in Cell Transplantation</p
Migration and Identities in Chika Unigwe’s Novels
Get PDFMonumental dispersals caused by the phenomenon of migration greatly affect the identities of people. Much like the process of globalization, migration is highly sexualized and gendered. To this extent, it is necessary to centralize women and their peculiar experiences in migration discourses and theories. Beyond the usual focus on the economics, politics and sociology of migration, which at any rate do not often adequately address gender-specific migratory experiences; this study takes a literary route that considers the fictional representations of migrant women in two of the novels of Chika Unigwe: The Phoenix (2005) and On Black Sisters’ Street (2008). The focus here is to underscore the validity and significance of gender as an imperative analytical premise in contemporary literary debates particularly by African migrants. In demonstrating how the inflections of gender portend different outcomes for men and women, the study significantly uncovers how the woman’s body is simultaneously the site of physical and symbolic migration. The essay traces the movement in transition and the impact of these and new environment on the bodies of female migrants and how the embodied motifs of migration ultimately alter the identities and realities of migrant African women in particular. In all, the essay hopes to expand some of the current theorizations on the new directions in the development of the fictional representations of Nigerian women as well as to contextualize the role of the émigré author in these developments.
THE FIRST FEMALE CHEMIST (AND PHARMACIST?) IN JAPAN: CHIKA KURODA
No full textThis paper follows a line of research started some time ago by the author with the purpose of presenting to society the biographies of women who managed to overcome the prejudices and laws in force of the time in which they lived, which prevented them from carrying out university studies, to differentiate from what happened at the same time with men. The main objective is to show the biography of Chika Kuroda, the first woman to obtain a degree in Chemistry in Japan, in the first decades of the last century and also the second woman to obtain a Ph.D. in Science in 1929 (some sources point out that she was also pharmacist, although this fact is not properly documented). The methodology used has been the search of data on this woman in bibliographical and computer sources, as well as in historic archives. As a main result, a biography of her, as complete as possible, has been constructed. Some brief biographical data on her compatriot Kono Yasui, the first Japanese woman to receive the degree of doctor in Science are also shownTHIS DATASET IS ARCHIVED AT DANS/EASY, BUT NOT ACCESSIBLE HERE. TO VIEW A LIST OF FILES AND ACCESS THE FILES IN THIS DATASET CLICK ON THE DOI-LINK ABOV
TRaNS, vol. 6, n° 1 (2018)
No full textTRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, vol. 6, n° 1, January 2018 Table of contents Articles From Traction to Friction in Thailand: The Emerging Southeast Asian Development Problematique by Jonathan Rigg Instrumental Culturalism: The Work of Comparisons across Japan, ‘the West’ and Myanmar by Chika Watanabe Infrastructure in the Making: The Chao Phraya Dam and the Dance of Agency by Jakkrit Sangkhamanee Value from Ruin? Governing Speculative Conservation in Ru..
THE FIRST FEMALE CHEMIST (AND PHARMACIST?) IN JAPAN: CHIKA KURODA
No full textThis paper follows a line of research started some time ago by the author with the purpose of presenting to society the biographies of women who managed to overcome the prejudices and laws in force of the time in which they lived, which prevented them from carrying out university studies to different from what happened at the same time with men. The main objective is to show the biography of Chika Kuroda, the first woman to obtain a degree in Chemistry in Japan, in the first decades of the last century and also the second woman to get a Ph.D. in Science in 1929 (some sources point out that she was also pharmacist, although this fact is not properly documented). The methodology used has been the search for data on this woman in bibliographical and computer sources, as well as in historical archives. As a main result, a biography of her, as complete as possible, has been constructed. Some brief biographical data on her compatriot Kono Yasui, the first Japanese woman to receive the degree of doctor in Science are also shown
Identitas Diri Cowok Penggemar K-pop (Studi Pada Personal Komunitas Dance Cover K-pop Blindfold Entertainment)
Get PDFxi Abstract Self Identity Boy K-pop Fans(Study On Personal Dance Cover Community Blindfold Entertainment) Ade Chika Maylisha 159110223 As a result of the rapid development of K-pop makes K-pop fans more and more and continues to increase. K-pop fans are usually dominated by women, but apparently not a few men who like K-pop to join a community. This is what underlies the author wants to examine the Self-Identity of K-Pop Enthusiasts in the Blindfold Entertainment K-pop Dance Cover community. The purpose of this study is to find out how the process of forming self-identity and what factors drive the formation of self-identity. This research uses a qualitative approach with five informants. Data collection techniques used are, interview, observation and documentation. Through Phinney's theory of self-identity which is used by the author as a guideline to get results from research, there are three stages to understanding identity growth. The first stage is in the form of an unknown identity, where at this stage the informant does not know about K-pop. Until entering the second stage, namely the stage of searching for identity, where at this stage informants have begun to be interested, understand and begin to learn about K-pop. The last stage is the stage of attaining identity, this stage is the stage where the informant already understands about K-pop to have an achievement in the form of achievement. There are also important factors that influence the formation of self-identity in each informant, namely, society, self and mind. The author also suggests that the activities carried out by the informants still lead to positive activities and continue to be creative
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