KIMURA, Shuhei
- G-COE Assistant Professor
- Division of Socio-Cultural Dynamics
- skimura@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
- Cultural Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies
- B.A. Department of Cultural Anthropology, the University of Tokyo 2001.
M.A. Department of Cultural Anthropology, the University of Tokyo 2003.
Current Research Interests
- Ethnography of disaster system in Turkey
- Anthropological theorization of future and risk
My research interest is to explore natural disasters as a consequence of
long-term interaction between “nature” and “culture”— I call this “disaster
system”— in Turkey. As an anthropologist, I have been conducting my field
research in Istanbul, focusing on the activities of local people, municipalities,
and academics and the relationships among them. Earthquake has become a
public concern and social arrangement surrounding disaster has been changing
dynamically in this high-profile country, especially after the great earthquake
disaster in 1999.
My second interest is risk from theoretical perspective. As the title of
the well-known book by U. Beck, we are living in a “Risk Society”, where
every single thing that can happen in the future come to be taken into
account as risk and also social mechanisms to prevent or mitigate the damage
is developing rapidly in different sectors. I tackle to comprehend how
the idea of risk, uncertainty, and future(s) are embodied in each local
and global context from anthropological perspective.
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