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Farrer James

ファーラー ジェームス | Farrer James
Affiliation and department：
Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts

About Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts


Job title： Professor
Other affiliations (1)：
  • Sophia University  Chairperson of the Master's(Doctoral) Program in Global Studies
Homepage URL  (1)： https://www.sophia.ac.jp/eng/program/professors_Info/SS/FARRER_James.html
Research field  (1)： Sociology
Research keywords  (8)： Sociology ,  Urban Sociology ,  Food Studies ,  Migration ,  Globalization ,  Sexuality ,  Chinese Society ,  Japanese Society
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (16)：
  • 2022 - 2026 Neighborhood Gastronomy as a Grassroots Creative Industry: Resilience and Innovation in Response to COVID
  • 2024 - 2025 Foreign-Owned Restaurants and the Transformation of Urban Social Infrastructure
  • 2023 - 2025 Sophia Food Studies: Mobilities, Sustainability and Ethics
  • 2016 - 2023 Digital Ethnographic Mapping of Neighborhood Foodscapes in Shanghai and Tokyo
  • 2015 - 2022 Global Japanese Cuisine and Urban Placemaking
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Papers (62)：
  • James Farrer. The Globalization of Japanese Cuisine. Iwate Nippo - Monthly Report. 2024. 21. 10-11
  • James Farrer. Urban foodways and social sustainability: neighborhood restaurants as social infrastructure. Food, Culture & Society. 2023. 1-17
  • Rebecca Babirye, James Farrer. Homo narrans: A transdisciplinary reading of Ken Plummer’s narrative sociology. Sexualities. 2023. 26. 4. 486-501
  • James Farrer. Sustainable Neighborhood Gastronomy: Tokyo Urban Foodways Facing Crises. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 2022. 63. 3. 396-410
  • Susanne Wessendorf, James Farrer. Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places. Comparative Migration Studies. 2021. 9. 28. 1-17
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MISC (21)：
  • James Farrer. Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious and Working Worlds by Megha Wadhwa (review). The Journal of Japanese Studies. 2024. 50. 2. 485-489
  • James Farrer. Comparing the Lives of Gay Men in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 2023. 29. 4. 507-510
  • James Farrer. An Academic Diptych. Gastronomica. 2023. 23. 1. iv-ix
  • James Farrer. Oishii: The History of Sushi by Eric C. Rath. The Journal of Japanese Studies. 2023. 49. 1. 217-221
  • James Farrer. Seeing the Kanda River. Gastronomica: the Journal of Food Studies. 2022. 22. 4. 49-53
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Books (65)：
  • Japanese Cuisine in Chinese Foodways (in Modern Chinese Foodways, Wendy Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle T. King, Jakob Klein eds.)
    MIT Press 2025 ISBN:9780262551311
  • Reflecting on the Global Japanese Restaurant (in The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics edited by James Farrer and David L. Wank)
    University of Hawaii Press 2023 ISBN:9780824895273
  • Reinventing Japanese Fine Dining in Culinary Global Cities (in The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics edited by James Farrer and David L. Wank)
    University of Hawaii Press 2023 ISBN:9780824895273
  • The Izakaya as Global Imaginary (in The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics edited by James Farrer and David L. Wank)
    University of Hawaii Press 2023 ISBN:9780824895273
  • Fast and Japanese: Corporatizing Japanese Restaurants (in The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics edited by James Farrer and David L. Wank)
    University of Hawaii Press 2023 ISBN:9780824895273
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Lectures and oral presentations  (163)：
  • COVID-19 and the Hospitality Industry in Japan: Navigating Diverging Expectations
    (Societies at the Crossroads - Germany and Japan in Comparison. 17th Conference of the German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences 2024)
  • Independent migrant restaurateurs and neighborhood foodways in Tokyo
    (Crossways of Knowledge: The 13th International Convention of Asian Scholars 2024)
  • Mobility, cultural infrastructure, and world-making: the case of Japanese culinary workers in Europe
    (IMISCOE Annual Conference 2024)
  • The Remaking of the Japanese Culinary Field in Europe’s Largest Japantown
    (Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting 2024)
  • Japan Remade Abroad: How the Japanese Restaurant Abroad Reinvented Japanese Cuisine and Restructured Global Gastronomy
    (The International Conference in Japanese Studies: Iaponica Brunensia 2023 2023)
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Professional career (3)：
  • Ph.D. (University of Chicago)
  • M.A. (University of Chicago)
  • B.A. (University of North Carolina)
Work history (9)：
  • 2002/04 - 2008/03 The Open University of Japan
  • 2001/10/01 - 2002/03/31 Hitotsubashi University
  • 1997/01/01 - 1998/08/01 NORC. University of Chicago Research Assistant
  • 1997/04 - 1998/06 Graham School. University of Chicago Lecturer
  • 1996/08/01 - 1996/12/30 Fudan East West Center Teacher
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Awards (5)：
  • 2024/06 - Association for the Study of Food and Society ASFS Book Prize, Edited Volume Category
  • 2023/06 - Association for the Study of Food and Society Belasco Prize for Scholarly Excellence
  • 2023/03 - Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs Exemplar of utilizing knowledge of Japanese food culture Nishiogiology (research website)
  • 2022/12 - Taylor & Francis Best Paper Award Best Paper Award for Asian Anthropology 2021
  • 2019/04 - Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs Carnegie Council Pacific Fellow; Robert J. Myers Fellow, 2018 and 2019 USA
Association Membership(s) (3)：
Association for Food Studies ,  Association for Asian Studies ,  Carnegie Council Pacific Fellow
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