Hokkaido Dairy Farm

Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan

AvPaul Hansen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of frontiers.Hokkaido Dairy Farm offers a historical and ethnographic examination of the rapid industrialization of the dairy industry in Tokachi, Hokkaido. It begins with a history of dairy farming and consumption in Hokkaido from a macro perspective, mapping the transition from survival to subsistence and then from mixed family farms to monoculture and "mega" industrial operations. It then narrows the focus to examine concrete changes in a Tokachi-area dairying community that has undergone rapid sociocultural upheaval over the last three decades, with shifts in human relationships alongside changes in human and cow connections through new technologies. In the final chapters, the scope is further narrowed to a detailed history and ethnography of a single industrializing dairy farm and the morphing cast of individuals attached to it, centering on their idiosyncratic searches for economic, social, and even ontological security in what is popularly considered a peripheral region and industry. The culmination of over fifteen years of ethnographic, policy, and historical research, Hokkaido Dairy Farm argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of frontiers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438496474

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Paul Hansen is Professor in the Department of International Resource Sciences at Akita University in Japan.

Recensioner i media

"…Hokkaido Dairy Farm takes us on a journey to the northern island of Hokkaido, offering us rare insights into a world different from dominant discourses on rural Japan." — Japanese Studies"If this were simply an ethnography of a dairy farm, its usefulness to the field of Japan Studies might be limited, but in Hansen’s framing its usefulness is abundantly demonstrated. Hansen is able to show why a livelihood that seems mundane and taken-for-granted is worth analyzing in the context of Japan—the farm, as he discusses it, does indeed have substantial implications beyond itself." — Gordon Mathews, Chinese University of Hong Kong"This superb ethnography is one of the best works on agricultural Japan in many years. It is also an important entry into the discussion of Japan as a heterogeneous society, as it interrogates and critiques works that attempt to portray Japan as homogeneous and monocultural." — John W. Traphagan, author of Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction1. A Conceptual Scaffolding 2. Toward Modernity: The Forming and Reforming of a Northern Frontier 3. From Traction to Teishoku: Tracing the Human-Bovine Trajectory 4. Problems Protecting the Japanese Dairy Industry 5. Farm Structures 6. The Birth of Grand Hopes 7. Dairy Farmers: Being, Becoming, and Making8. From Teat to Tot: Following Flows 9. Producing and Pumping 10. Keeping It All Working 11. Locals, Lo-siders, Outsiders, and No-siders 12. Assembling Communities: Two Genders and One Religion Conclusion: On the Frontiers of Animal-Human-Technology Epilogue Notes References Index