JSPS Academic Knowledge Co-Creation Program (2023-2028)

Overcoming Social Division and
achieving Diversity through Embodiment

JAPANESE

Principal Investigator

TOKORO Ikuya

Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (Cultural Anthropology and Southeast Asian Area Studies), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Cluster A “Empirical Research on Diverse and Transformative Embodiment” Research Summary: Cultural Anthropological Study on Transcending Social Divisions and Realizing Diversity through Embodiment

Related Sites

https://www.tufs.ac.jp/research/researcher/people/tokoro_ikuya.html

ILCAA Joint Research Project “Anthropology of Embodiment: Anthropological Study of Objects (4)

http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/ja/projects/jrp/jrp277

Ikuya Tokoro (ed.), The Anthropology of Waza (Kyoto University Press) website

https://www.kyoto-up.or.jp/books/9784814003754.html

Members to share research

Cluster A “Empirical Research on Diverse and Transformative Embodiment”

YOSHIDA Yukako

Associate Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Cultural Anthropology and Performing Arts) Field research on performing arts and performances related to disability

Related Sites

https://www.tufs.ac.jp/research/researcher/people/yoshida_yukako.html

TAKAHASHI Kohske

Professor (Cognitive Psychology), College of General Psychology, Ritsumeikan University Research based on field experiments on diverse somatic practices in various regions

Related Sites

立命総合心理高橋ラボ public (scrapbox.io)

MURATSU Ran

Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Visual Anthropology and African Area Studies) Visual anthropological research on the practice of overcoming division, such as the coexistence of disabled and “able-bodied” people

Related Sites

https://www.tufs.ac.jp/research/researcher/people/muratsu_ran.html

Cluster B “Interdisciplinary Theory Building on the Foundations of Embodiment and Social Fragmentation”

YAMAGUCHI Masami

Chuo University, Faculty of Letters, Professor (Developmental Psychology, Face Recognition and Perceptual Development), Cluster B, “Interdisciplinary Theory Building on the Foundations of Embodiment and Social Fragmentation”, Research Director, Fragmentation over the Body in Post-Coronial Society

Related Sites

山口真美 研究室 -中央大学文学部 心理学研究室 (chuo-u.ac.jp)
「こどもからみる不思議世界探求」プロジェクト | 研究・調査 | 日本科学未来館 (Miraikan) (jst.go.jp)

KUDO Kazutoshi

Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo (Physical Exercise Science, Cognitive Behavioral Science) Collaborative research in exercise science and related fields on physical practice

Related Sites

http://www.dexterity-lab.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

WATANABE Katsumi

Professor, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University (Cognitive Science, Experimental Psychology, Neuroscience) Cognitive science elucidation of the physical basis of fragmentation, including latent processes

Related Sites

http://www.fennel.sci.waseda.ac.jp/members/watanabe_katsumi.html

Cluster C “Constructing Methods of Transcending Fragmentation through Physical Practice”

KONO Tetsuya

Professor at Rikkyo University, Department of Education (Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Education), Cluster C Research Supervisor, Examination of Theoretical and Practical Foundations for Overcoming Fragmentation

Related Sites

https://www2.rikkyo.ac.jp/web/tetsuyakono/index.html

TANAKA Miwako

Higashi Nippon International University, Faculty of Health and Welfare, Professor (Art Practice and Disability Studies), Research on Methodology of Transcending Social Divide through Art Practice

Related Sites

田中 みわ子 (Tanaka Miwako) - マイポータル - researchmap

KOTEGAWA Shojiro

Professor, Faculty of Letters, Department of Philosophy, Kokugakuin University (Modern and Contemporary Western Philosophy, Phenomenology)

Related Sites

https://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/account/91873

Research Participants

ITO Asa

Director, Future of Humanity Research Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts Research and Education (Aesthetics and Disability Studies)

Related Sites

伊藤亜紗 | Asa Ito

Najib Burhani

research professor and Chairman of the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities (ISSH) at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN).

Related Sites

Chairman - IPSH (brin.go.id)

Caitlin Coker

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University (Cultural Anthropology, Performance Studies, Body Theory)

Related Sites

http://anthropology.starfree.jp/professor/coker.html https://www.instagram.com/thunderbolt_mushihime/

HIROSE Koujirou

National Museum of Ethnology.Professor,Department of Advanced Human Sciences(Cultural Anthropology, Tactile Culture Theory, and Party Research on Disability)

Related Sites

https://www.minpaku.ac.jp/post-staff/6541

SEKIMOTO Sachi

Minnesota State University, communication department, professor (phenomenology of philosophy, the discrimination)

Related Sites

https://hss.mnsu.edu/about/departments/department-of-communications-and-media/faculty-staff/sachi-sekimoto/

NISHII Ryoko

Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies(cultural anthropology/Southeast Asia area study)

Related Sites

http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~rnishii/

NARUMI Takuji

associate professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo(engineering: virtual reality (VR), augmented reality)

Related Sites

https://www.cyber.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

YAMAMOTO Yoshimi

Professor Tsuru University department of literature comparison culture subject(physical processing study mainly on cultural anthropology/tattoo tattoo)

Related Sites

https://researchmap.jp/japantattoo

NIWA Tomoko

Teacher,Faculty of International Fashion, Professional Institute of International Fashion(Cultural Anthropology/Art and Design Culture Research/Video and Exhibition Practice in Collaboration with NPOs)

Related Sites

https://researchmap.jp/niwa-tomoko
http://ecfilm.net

MORITA Kazuyo

Chairman of the NPO “P'spot14” (Disability Studies, Dance Research/Dancer)

Related Sites

http://www.convey-art.com/

Researcher for this assignment

OMURA Yusuke

Research Fellow, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Cultural Anthropology, Sexuality Studies, Lao Studies)

Related Sites

http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/ja/staff/list3/omuray

※In addition, other collaborators are scheduled to participate depending on various events, etc.