ISHIKAWA, Noboru
- Associate Professor
- Division of Socio-Cultural Dynamics
- B. A. in Social Anthropology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1985
Ph. D. in Anthropology, City University of New York, 1998
Current Research Interests
- State-making and transnationality
- Culture and power
- Global ethnography
As a social anthropologist, I have maintained a strong interest in political
economy and relationships between human and environment in insular Southeast
Asia. I have thus explored social forces shaping the region through the
articulation of history and ethnography both from macro and micro perspectives.
More specifically, my research focuses on the material bases of socio-cultural
configurations in maritime Southeast Asia, analyzing them in both their
local and global contexts and looking into their interaction. I have been
engaged in interdisciplinary research on the Malay world and on present-day
Malaysia and Indonesia, with special attention to the role of cultural
interpretations in the reproduction and maintenance of power, identity
politics, nation-making, ethnogenesis, socio-cultural dislocation, and
the mobilization of social labor.
My current research themes include the transnational process at a state
border in western Borneo, the social history of a riverine society in Northern
Sarawak, Malaysia, commodity chains connecting Southeast Asia and Japan,
and the socio-cultural construction of “nature” in the industrialized environment
of Southeast Asia.
Research Activities in 2007 Fiscal Year
Publication |
Joint Research Project | Field Research | Seminar/Symposium |
Database | Academic Association | Outside Activities | Award
- Joint Research Projects
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- Research Topic: Anthropological Study of Boundary Making and Transnationality
- Term:2005 - 2007
- Sponsor:Overseas Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid, Japanese Society for the Promotion
of Science（A）（１）
- Leader:J. Koizumi (Osaka University)
- Outline:Theorizing of Boundary Making
- Research Topic:Pentioners on the Move: Anthropological Study of Aging Society in Southeast
Asia and Oceania
- Term:2005 - 2007
- Sponsor:Overseas Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid, Japanese Society for the Promotion
of Science（A）（１）
- Leader:K. Miyazali (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
- Outline:Japanese pensioners’ communities in Thailand and Indonesia
- Research Topic:Anthropological Study of Natural Disaster in Borneo
- Term:2005 - 2007
- Sponsor:Overseas Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid, Japanese Society for the Promotion
of Science（A）（１）
- Leader:M. Tsugami (Tohokugakuin University)
- Outline:Socio-Ecological studies of riverine society in Northern Sarawak
- Research Topic:Anthropological Study of Work and Gender in Comparative Perspectives
- Term: 2005 - 2007
- Sponsor:Overseas Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid, Japanese Society for the Promotion
of Science（Ｂ）（１）
- Leader:A. Nakatani (Okayama University)
- Outline: Labor mobilization in riverine society in Northern Sarawak
- Research Topic:Originating of Area Informatics-with a Focus on Southeast Asia
- Term: 2005 - 2008
- Sponsor:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi) ,Scientific Research (S)
- Leader:M. Shibayama (Kyoto University)
- Outline:Digitization of the Sarawak Gazette
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