Hokkaido Dairy Farm Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan (SUNY Press, 2024)
Book Launch: Hokkaido Dairy Farm by Paul Hansen
19 FEBRUARY 24
Book Launch and Discussion with the Author
Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan
By Paul Hansen
February 19th 2024, 18:00 JST
Hokkaido Dairy Farm offers a historical and ethnographic examination of the rapid industrialization of the dairy industry in Tokachi, Hokkaido. It begins with a history of dairy farming and consumption in Hokkaido from a macro perspective. It then narrows the focus to examine concrete changes in a Tokachi-area dairying community, with shifts in human relationships alongside changes in human and cow connections through new technologies. In the final chapters, the scope is further narrowed to a detailed history and ethnography of a single industrializing dairy farm and the morphing cast of individuals attached to it, centering on their idiosyncratic searches for economic, social, and ontological security in what is popularly considered a peripheral region and industry. The culmination of over fifteen years of ethnographic, policy, and historical research, Hokkaido Dairy Farm argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of frontiers (SUNY Press 2024).
Paul Hansen is professor in the Department of International Resource Sciences at Akita University in Japan. He is a socio-cultural anthropologist with a focus on Japan and Jamaica, social theory in relation to identity, affect, embodiment, posthumanism, cosmopolitan studies, ecology and animal-human-technology relationships. He is also interested in food and musicology. Having published extensively on these topics in anthropology journals, he is co-editor (with Blai Guarné) of the book Escaping Japan: Reflections on Estrangement and Exile in the Twenty-First Century (2018, Routledge) and co-editor (with Susanne Klien) of a Special Issue of Asian Anthropology titled Rural Japan as Heterotopia (2022).
More information : https://iseas-kyoto.org/workshops/e5633
This hybrid lecture will be held on site and via Zoom.
Registration through the link (https://forms.gle/qews8pdcWVgi3xXm6) by February 16.
Place: EFEO Kyoto
29, Kitashirakawa bettocho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8276
フランス国立極東学院京都支部
606-8276 京都市左京区北白川別当町29
You can find the place on the Google Map with the words of ’EFEO Kyoto’
Organized by
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies
Scuola Italiana di Studi sull'Asia Orientale ISEAS
École française d’Extrême-Orient EFEO
Contact:
Scuola Italiana di Studi sull'Asia Orientale ISEAS
e-mail: info.iseas@iseas-kyoto.org
https://iseas-kyoto.org
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Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan
By Paul Hansen
February 19th 2024, 18:00 JST
Hokkaido Dairy Farm offers a historical and ethnographic examination of the rapid industrialization of the dairy industry in Tokachi, Hokkaido. It begins with a history of dairy farming and consumption in Hokkaido from a macro perspective. It then narrows the focus to examine concrete changes in a Tokachi-area dairying community, with shifts in human relationships alongside changes in human and cow connections through new technologies. In the final chapters, the scope is further narrowed to a detailed history and ethnography of a single industrializing dairy farm and the morphing cast of individuals attached to it, centering on their idiosyncratic searches for economic, social, and ontological security in what is popularly considered a peripheral region and industry. The culmination of over fifteen years of ethnographic, policy, and historical research, Hokkaido Dairy Farm argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of frontiers (SUNY Press 2024).
Paul Hansen is professor in the Department of International Resource Sciences at Akita University in Japan. He is a socio-cultural anthropologist with a focus on Japan and Jamaica, social theory in relation to identity, affect, embodiment, posthumanism, cosmopolitan studies, ecology and animal-human-technology relationships. He is also interested in food and musicology. Having published extensively on these topics in anthropology journals, he is co-editor (with Blai Guarné) of the book Escaping Japan: Reflections on Estrangement and Exile in the Twenty-First Century (2018, Routledge) and co-editor (with Susanne Klien) of a Special Issue of Asian Anthropology titled Rural Japan as Heterotopia (2022).
More information : https://iseas-kyoto.org/workshops/e5633
This hybrid lecture will be held on site and via Zoom.
Registration through the link (https://forms.gle/qews8pdcWVgi3xXm6) by February 16.
Place: EFEO Kyoto
29, Kitashirakawa bettocho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8276
フランス国立極東学院京都支部
606-8276 京都市左京区北白川別当町29
You can find the place on the Google Map with the words of ’EFEO Kyoto’
Organized by
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies
Scuola Italiana di Studi sull'Asia Orientale ISEAS
École française d’Extrême-Orient EFEO
Contact:
Scuola Italiana di Studi sull'Asia Orientale ISEAS
e-mail: info.iseas@iseas-kyoto.org
https://iseas-kyoto.org
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