Kobayashi Kazuo

コバヤシカズオ | Kobayashi Kazuo

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate Professor

Research field (2)： Economic history , History - General

Research keywords (9)： Global history , Economic History , Globalization , Tropical economies , West Africa , India , Slave Trade , Consumption , Textiles

Research theme for competitive and other funds (11)：

2024 - 2028 「奴隷制の想像力」-地中海型奴隷制度論の動態的検討-
2024 - 2027 West Africa and the Modern Global Economy from a Perspective of Commodity Chains: The Cases of Palm Oil and Soap
2019 - 2025 Problematizing Circulations.Connecting Culture, Environment and Materiality in Global History
2020 - 2024 Historical Research of Developmental Path of West Africa: The Case of Textile Industry
2019 - 2023 人類史における移動概念の再構築--「自由」と「不自由」の相克に注目して

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Papers (15)：

Kazuo Kobayashi. Economic Development of West Africa until the Colonial Period: A Note for Comparative Studies (in Japanese). Kohei Wakimura, ed., Economic Development of Modern Tropical Asia: Population, Environment and Resources. 2024. 237-261
Kazuo Kobayashi. Political Economy of Textiles in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. 2024. 1-23
Kazuo Kobayashi. Economic Growth and Inequality: Why Have Some Countries Grown Rich While Others Have Not? (in Japanese). Ichiro Maekawa, ed., Introduction to Historical Studies. 2023. 209-224
Kazuo Kobayashi. The Routine of Historical Studies: Research Methods and Writing Academic Papers (in Japanese). Ichiro Maekawa, ed., Introduction to Historical Studies. 2023. 21-39
乔吉奥列略 (Giorgio Riello), 小林和夫 (Kazuo Kobayashi). 棉的全球传播 (The Global Success of Cotton). 赵丰、路易斯・诺施主編『纺织与服装』 (Zhao Feng and Marie-Louise Nosch, eds., Textiles and Clothing along the Silk Roads). 2023. 43-55

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MISC (15)：

小林和夫. 受賞のことば. アジア経済. 2023. 64. 3. 93-93
Kazuo Kobayashi. [Book review] Hideaki Suzuki, A Global History of Abolition of Slavery and Slave Trade (University of Tokyo Press, 2020). Socio-Economic History. 2021. 87. 3. 92-94
Kazuo Kobayashi. African slave trade and Latin America. Encyclopedia of Socio-Economic History. 2021. 428-429
Kazuo Kobayashi. Africa and the Atlantic trade. Encyclopedia of;Socio-Economic History. 2021. 74-75
Kazuo Kobayashi. [Book Review] John Darwin, After Tamerilane (Japanese-translated edition). The Book Review Press. 2021. 3491. 3

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Books (2)：

Beyond the Atlantic Slave Trade: West Africa, Indian Cotton Textiles and the Modern Global Economy
The University of Nagoya Press 2021 ISBN:4815810370
Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa: African Agency, Consumer Demand and the Making of the Global Economy, 1750-1850
Palgrave Macmillan 2019 ISBN:3030186741

Lectures and oral presentations (57)：

The Intellectual Legacy of Eric Williams in Japan
([Public Lecture] Slavery and Prosperity: Rethinking Eric Williams 2024)
Economic Development of West Africa from the Precolonial to Colonial Periods: A Note for Comparative Studies of Tropical Development
(Debating Economic Development in Tropical Asia: Historical Pathways, Environmental Constraints and Population Growth 2024)
Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Thereafter
(Five-sensory Indian Ocean World 2024)
Commodity Chains of Cotton Textiles During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: India, Western Europe, and West Africa
(Navigating Commodities: Production, Markets, and Consumption in History 2023)
Comment
(What is 'Internationalisation' of Historical Studies? 2023)

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Professional career (1)：

PhD in Economic History (LSE)

Work history (7)：

2019/04 - 現在 Waseda University Faculty of Political Science and Economics Associate Professor
2019/10 - 2023/03 National Museum of Ethnology External fellow
2018/04 - 2019/03 Osaka Sangyo University Faculty of Economics Assistant Professor in Economic History
2018/02 - 2018/03 University of Warwick Global History and Culture Centre Visiting Associate Professor
2016/04 - 2018/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral fellow

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Committee career (2)：

2023/01 - 現在 Socio-Economic HIstory Society General Affairs
2021/04 - 2022/12 Socio-Economic HIstory Society Conference Committee

Awards (3)：

2023/10 - Waseda University 2023 Okuma Memorial Academic Prize (Encouragement Prize)
2023/06 - IDE-JETRO 44th IDE-JETRO award for developing countries' studies (Beyond the Atlantic Slave Trade: West Africa, Indian Cotton Textiles and the Modern Global Economy (in Japanese))
2014/06 - Japanese Society for Western History Excellent Poster Award The British Atlantic Slave Trade and the East India Company

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