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UBUKATA, Fumikazu

  • G-COE Assistant Professor
  • Division of Economic and Political Dynamics
  • M.Sc. Program, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto Univ.
    Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto Univ.

Current Research Interests

  1. Social change, institutions, and environmental governance in Southeast Asia

Community Forest: Villagers collectively making a firebreak in their community forest. How have such institutional arrangements arisen?

Many current social phenomena can be understood as a result of actors' interactions on local, national, and global levels. For example, national and regional implementation processes toward free trade, democratization, and local empowerment are diverse across countries, although they are acknowledged as the global trends. Of course, local influences are much more diverse because they largely depend on how various actors, such as firms, local people, government, and NGOs, interact to create culture, rules, and institutions.
I am currently engaged in inter-disciplinary research on how such actor interactions affect the creation of institutions related to environmental governance and its performance, and how regional peculiarity affects its pathways. I am investigating this issue in the following two concrete situations concerning resource production and conservation in Southeast Asia:
1. Reconciliation processes between local people, government, and entrepreneurs on raw material production in the pulp and paper industry
2. Policy formulations, implementations, and local responses in “Community-based Resource Management”

Research Activities in 2007-2008 Fiscal Year

Publications
  1. Ubukata, F. 2008. The Institutional Formation Process of Communal Forest Management in Northeast Thai Villages. Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies 7 (G-COE Series 5), CSEAS, Kyoto University.
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Joint Research Projects
  1. Research Topic:"Plurality and Peculiarity of Resource Conflicts and Cooperations: Lessons from Southeast Asia,"
  2. Term:2008-2010
  3. Sponsor:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi), Wakate(B)
  4. Leader: Ubukata, F.
  5. No. of Members:1
  6. Members in CSEAS:1
  1. Research Topic: "Regional Politics in the Plantation Areas of Southeast Asia,"
  2. Term:2008-2011
  3. Sponsor:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi), Scientific Research (B), Overseas
  4. Leader:Okamoto, M.
  5. No. of Members:8
  6. Members in CSEAS:4
  1. Research Topic:"Comparison of Resource Governance in Tropical Satoyama Areas,"
  2. Term:2008-2010
  3. Sponsor:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi), Scientific Research (B), Overseas
  4. Leader:Ichikawa, M.
  5. No. of Members:6
  6. Members in CSEAS:1
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Field Research
  1. Term:Aug. 26-Sep. 1, 2008
  2. Area:Sarawak, Malaysia
  3. Project: G-COE and WakateB "Plurality and Peculiarity of Resource Conflicts and Cooperations: Lessons from Southeast Asia,"
  4. Field Note:G-COE, Extensive survey of social conflicts in oil palm plantation areas.
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Seminars/Symposia
  1. Title:Asian Way of Social Movements in the Era of Globalization
  2. Date & Time:June 14, 2008
  3. Place:CSEAS
  4. Topic:JSPS-NRCT Core University Program, Project 7: "Entrepreneurship in East Asia - Political, Economic, Cultural and Social: Establishing a New Model of East Asian Political Economy",
  5. Presenter:5 presenters
  1. Title:Initiative 4 & Junior Researchers Seminars Joint Seminar
  2. Date & Time:Jul. 11-12, 2008.
  3. Place:CSEAS
  4. Topic:"Living with Salinity? Salinization in Northeast Thailand and Villagers' Livelihoods," G-COE"In search of Sustainable Humanoshere in Asia and Africa" and Exploratory Research "Searching for an Area Studies Approach to Disaster Prevention and Rehabilitation from Experiences of Involvement in Rehabilitation Work,"
  5. Presenter: 9 presenters
  1. Title:The 4th Seminar of Initiative 1
  2. Date & Time:May 12, 2008
  3. Place:CSEAS
  4. Topic:"Modernity of Local Institutional Formation Processes: Cases of Commons," G-COE"In search of Sustainable Humanoshere in Asia and Africa"
  5. Presenter:2 presenters
  1. Title:The 4th Junior Researchers' Seminar
  2. Date & Time:Apr. 12, 2008
  3. Place: ASAFAS
  4. Topic:"Livelihoods and worldviews of the Javanese immigrants: A view from “Pekarangan”," G-COE"In search of Sustainable Humanoshere in Asia and Africa"
  5. Presenter:18 presenters
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Activities in Academic Associations
  1. Presenter
  2. Name of Academic Association:International Association for the Study of Commons
  3. Topic:“Changing boarders of the management unit: an effect of decentralization and formalization in communal forest management, Yasothon, Thailand”
  4. Place:University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, England
  5. Term:July 14-18, 2008.
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Outside Activities
  1. Lecture: International Social Development Graduate Programs
  2. Organizer of lecture:Nihon Fukushi University
  3. Date:May 11, 2008
  4. Place: Nihon Fukushi University
  5. Topic:A lecture on Development and Local Societies: Cases of Common Property Resources Management
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