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KATO, Etsuko

カトウ,エツコ エツコ | KATO, Etsuko
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor
Research field  (2): Cultural anthropology and folklore ,  Gender studies
Research keywords  (36): native anthropology ,  cultural nationalism ,  migration ,  youth ,  work ,  self-searching ,  Canada ,  Australia ,  community ,  mental health ,  psychological anthropology ,  cross-cultural psychiatry ,  representation ,  native anthropology ,  Japan ,  日本 ,  the Japanese ,  日本人 ,  traditional art ,  伝統芸能 ,  gender ,  ジェンダー ,  cultural nationalism ,  migration ,  youth ,  self ,  自己 ,  work ,  self-searching ,  Canada ,  Australia ,  community ,  mental health ,  psychological anthropology ,  cross-cultural psychiatry ,  representation
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (8):
  • 2016 - 2019 Can Young Japanese Be "Asian"?: How English-speaking Asia affects self-views of outbound Japanese
  • 2011 - 2014 Towards the Society that Enhances "Overseas-Bound" Youth: Self-Work Searching in the Age of Globalization
  • 2010 - 2014 A Comprehensive Analysis of Overseas Anthropological Studies of Japan
  • 2008 - 2009 移民志望の日本人青年の自己観・世界観:グローバル時代の「自己」形成における国家と仕事の役割
  • 2008 - 2009 Self-recognition, World Views and Mental Health of Young Japanese Sojourners in Vancouver, Canada.
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Papers (18):
  • Asianisms in Motion: Asian Selves and Customized Asia among Japanese Sojourners in the Pacific West and East. Asian Anthropology. 2020. 19. 4
  • 個人化される「方法としてのアジア」:シンガポールの日本人、そしてシンガポール人は「アジア人」か. アジア文化研究. 2019. 45. 45-62
  • None of My Business: Young Japanese Migrants in Canada Defying "Global Human Resource (gurobaru jinzai)" Discourse. ISS Research Series. 2016. 59. 77-88
  • When a man flies overseas: corporate nationalism, gendered happiness and young Japanese male migrants in Canada and Australia. Asian Anthropology. 2016. 14. 3. 220-234
  • 「グローバル人材か、グローバル市民か:多様な若者の、多様な海外渡航のス〻メ」. ウェブマガジン『留学交流』http://www.jasso.go.jp/about/webmagazine201401.html. 2014. 34
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MISC (19):
  • Kato, Etsuko. Uncrossed Asianisms: How Singaporeans and Japanese sojourners in Singapore are not “Asian”. Asian Journal of Social Science. 2022. 50. 4. 301-308
  • Kato, Etsuko. Body-Mind Discipline for Life: The non-conformity of contemporary Japanese tea ceremony practitioners. Asian Journal of Social Science. 2022. 50. 3. 206-213
  • Book Review: Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan (Rebecca Corbett). 2018. 77. 1&2. 457-458
  • Kobayashi Fukuko, Akiko Murata, Naoko Yugeta eds. Developing Gender Studies and Education.. Gender History. 2017. 13. 136-137
  • 「ジェンダー・ギャップ指数ランキング」を文化人類学的に視る. 『コーヒー入れて』 三鷹市企画部企画経営課 平和・女性・国際化推進係編、2016年 Vol.62、5頁. 2016. 62. 5-5
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Books (11):
  • Mobile Japanese Migrants to the Pacific West and East: Self-searching, Work, and Identification
    2023
  • How Do Liberal Arts Face with Disasters and Reconstruction?
    Fuko-sha 2016
  • "On Representations of 'Japanese Women': 'Feminine Japan' in the writings of feminist anthropologists in English-speaking world." In <I>How Japan Is Told: Anthropological Japanese Studies Overseas</I>.
    2016
  • Who Are Global Human Resources?: On the meaning of overseas experiences of young Japanese
    Seikyu-sha 2016
  • "Loyalty to Self or Loyalty to State-Corporation?: Discourses of Japan surrounding 'Feminine' Self-searching Migrants and 'Masculine' Global Human Resources. Book title TBA. Edited by Jijiao Zhang (in preparation).
    Springer 2015
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Lectures and oral presentations  (55):
  • Not Quite Labor Migration though They "Work": Japanese Global Self-Searching Migrants and Asianisms
    (2022 Global Korean Studies: Labor Migration, Trans-nationalism, and Identities in Asia 2022)
  • For Whom You Become “Global Human Resources”~誰がために「グローバル人材」になる~: Contexts and Limitations of Gurobaru Jinzai Discourse
    (2019)
  • Imagined “Asian” Solidarities in a Global City-State: Asianism of Japanese Migrant Workers in Singapore
    (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Inter-Congress 2019 2019)
  • 自分探しか、グローバル人材か:海外を移動する日本の若者とジェンダー
    (東進ハイスクール 大学学部研究会(高校生向けセミナー) 2018)
  • Asianisms in Motion: Japanese Migrants' (Re-)Encountering Asian Selves in the West and East Pacific
    (Asian Studies Association of Australia, Annual Meeting 2018)
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Education (3):
  • 1995 - 2001 University of Toronto Department of Anthropology Linguistic and Semiotic Anthropology
  • 1984 - 1998 Keio University Department of Letters English (Linguistics)
  • 1990 - 1992 Keio University Graduate School, Division of Letters Linguistics
Professional career (6):
  • Ph.D. (University of Toronto, Canada)
  • 博士 (トロント大学(カナダ))
  • M.A. (Keio University)
  • 修士 (慶應義塾大学)
  • B.A. (Keio University)
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Work history (20):
  • 2023/04 - 現在 国際基督教大学サービス・ラーニング・センター 所長
  • 2015/04 - 現在 International Christian University College of Liberal Arts, Division of Arts and Science Professor
  • 2008/03 - 現在 International Christian University, Senior Associate Professor (Cultural Anthropology, Division of Arts and Science)
  • 2021/06 - 2022/03 International Christian University Professor
  • 2021/06 - 2022/03 International Christian University Board of Trustees, Member
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Committee career (6):
  • 2015/07 - 現在 立川市男女平等参画推進審議委員会 会長
  • 2012/04 - 現在 Executive Member (Liaison Officer)
  • 2012/04 - 現在 Executive Member (Liaison Officer)
  • 2010/05 - 現在 公益財団法人(旧・財団法人)ラボ国際交流センター 評議員
  • 2006/10 - 2009/09 三鷹市役所 オンブズマン
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Association Membership(s) (9):
国際ジェンダー学会 ,  Anthropology of Japan in Japan ,  International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences ,  Society for Psychological Anthropology ,  European Association for Japanese Studies ,  日本カナダ学会 ,  多文化間精神医学会 ,  日本文化人類学会 ,  日本記号学会
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