Research theme for competitive and other funds (14):
2023 - 2028 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and State Politics in India
2022 - 2026 Political Analysis of Decentralisation and Centralisation: A Path toward Development and Restoration of Democracy as Revealed in 28 States of India
2020 - 2023 Research on "Introspective Altruism" as the identity of people in the world, with a view to its implementation.
2019 - 2023 Judicial Activism, Social Movement, and Sustainability of Liberal Democracy in Contemporary India
2017 - 2023 「1960年代」の再検討:多様性と超域性の観点から
2019 - 2023 --
2017 - 2022 Results and Potentials of Decentralized Development: Comparative Studies of 29 States in India to Understand the Shape for Democratic Stability
2015 - 2019 An Investigation of the Changes of Contemporary India through the Rise of People in the Lower Strata and Local Leaders
2015 - 2018 A Historical Origin of Indian Democracy: B. R. Ambedkar's Thought Around the Period of Independence and the Influence of John Dewey
2014 - 2018 Interdisciplinary studies on dynamics of laws and rights in the contemporary south Asian societies
2012 - 2017 State Politics of India at the Time of Globalisation: Comparative Analysis of All the 28 States on Development, Ecology and Violence
2012 - 2015 From Gandhi to Ambedkar: In Search of Equality in a Society of Diversity
2011 - 2014 Social Movements and Democracy in Postcolonial India
2009 - 2012 An Anthropological Study about Buddhist Movements and Life Practices of 'Untouchables' in Contemporary North India
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Papers (13):
Funahashi, Kenta. Who Can Represent Minorities?: The Development and Impasse of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh. Effects and Future Potentials of Decentralized Development --Styles of Stable Democracy Analyzed through Comparative Studies of 29 States in India--. 2023. 87-96
FUNAHASHI Kenta. Local Leaders and Dalit Assertion in Contemporary India: A Study of Buddhist Movements in Uttar Pradesh. 2015 RINDAS International Conference Proceedings, "Rethinking Religion, Ethics, and Political Economy in India and Sri Lanka: Critical Perspectives from Japan". 2017. 4-14
FUNAHASHI Kenta. An Aspect of the "Secular-State" in Modern and Contemporary India : From a Case of Buddhist Conversion Movements(Secularism and Nation in Modern Asia: Toward a Post-Secularization Theory,Panels,Research Reports,THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES). Journal of religious studies. 2016. 89. 46-47
FUNAHASHI Kenta. Identifying with Buddhism: A Buddhist Movement and Buddhist Practices in Contemporary Uttar Pradesh. RINDAS International Symposium Series 3, "In Search of Well-being: Genealogies of Religion and Politics in India". 2014. 106-120
Who can represent minorities?: The Development and Impasse of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh
(International Workshop on State Politics in India 2022)
"The Rise of the 'Lower Strata People' in Contemporary India: The Emergence of Local Leaders and the Development of Social Movements"
(2021 RINDAS Final Symposium 2021)
“As a Chamar and/or a Buddhist: ‘Caste’ among ‘Converted-Buddhists’ in Uttar Pradesh”
(International Webinar, “Caste among Non-Hindus: Ideology, Institutions and Practices” (Research Committee-26, Indian Sociological Society) 2021)
"Buddhism as Hope: 'Converted Buddhists in Contemporary India"
(2021)
“Expanding Identities and Social Inclusion: A Case Study of Dalit Converts to Buddhism in North India” (Panel: "Social Inclusion/exclusion in South Asia 2: Minorities”)
(The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS11), Leiden University, THE NETHERLANDS 2019)
2002 - 2007 Kyoto University Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies
1993 - 2002 Hokkaido University
Professional career (1):
Doctor (Area Studies)
Work history (11):
2021/04 - 現在 Ryukoku University Faculty of Sociology Department of Sociology Associate Professor
2012/04 - 現在 Kyoto Sangyo University Lecturer (part-time)
2018/04 - 2020/03 Ryukoku University Faculty of Sociology, Department of Sociology Associate Professor
2014/04 - 2018/03 National Institutes for the Humanities Center for Transdisciplinary Innovation Research Fellow
2011/10 - 2018/03 Ryukoku University Lecturer (part-time)
2012/04 - 2014/03 Kyoto University Institute for Research in Humanities Research Fellow
2010/04 - 2012/03 Kyoto University Center for Southeast Asian Studies Researcher (Global COE)
2007/04 - 2011/03 Japan Women's University Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Sciences Research Scholar
2007/04 - 2008/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD)
2006/04 - 2007/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2)
2004/03 - 2006/02 Jawaharlal Nehru University Centre for the Study of Law and Governance Foreign Research Affiliation
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Committee career (2):
2018/10 - 2022/09 The Japanese Association for South Asian Studies Director
2018/10 - 2022/09 日本南アジア学会 常務理事
Association Membership(s) (4):
JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES
, THE JAPAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY
, JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
, THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY