Publications

Books

2025. Joy Hendry and Emma E. Cook. Understanding Japanese Society (6th edition). London and New York: Routledge.
2016. Reconstructing Adult Masculinities: Part-time Work in Contemporary Japan. London and New York: Routledge.
- reviewed by Futoshi Taga in the Jo urnal of Japanese Studies 44:2 Summer 2019.

Edited Books & Special Issues

2026. Daniel White, Emma E. Cook and Andrea De Antoni (eds.) Affect as Cultural Critique: Methods for Anthropological Uncovering. University of Toronto Press.
2019. Andrea De Antoni and Emma E. Cook (eds.) “Feeling (with) Japan: Affective, Sensory and Material Entanglements in the Field.” Asian Anthropology.18(3)
2019. Allison Alexy and Emma E. Cook (eds.) Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
- reviewed by Pamela Runestad. H-Japan, H-Net Reviews. January, 2020. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53907
- reviewed by Kimio Ito in Social Science Japan Journal 23:2 2020
- reviewed by Mark Mclelland in the Journal of Japanese Studies 46:1, Winter 2020.
- reviewed by Kona Irie, Yi-Hsuan Kuo & Rebecca O’Leary in the Journal of Gender Studies 29:6, 2020.
- reviewed by Lynne Nakano in Asian Anthropology 18:4, 2019.

Peer Reviewed Articles/Chapters

2026. “Serious Play and the Facilitation of Feeling in Food Allergy Advocacy in Japan” in Daniel White, Emma E. Cook, and Andrea De Antoni (eds.). Affect as Cultural Critique: Methods for Anthropological Uncovering. University of Toronto Press.
2025. Antoine Deschildre, Montserrat Alvaro-Lozano, Antonella Muraro, Marcia Podesta, Debra de Silva, Mattia Giovannini, Simona Barni, Timothy E. Dribin, Mónica Sandoval-Ruballos, Aikaterini Anagnostou, Alessandro Fiocchi, Alice Toniolo, Andrew Bird, Angel Sánchez Sanz, Anna Asarnoj, Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, Berber Vlieg-Boerstra, Brian P. Vickery, Carina Venter, Caroline Nilsson, Cecilia Parente, Céline Demoulin, David M. Fleischer, Diola Bijlhout, Edward F. Knol, Eleanor Garrow, Emma E. Cook, Fallon Schultz, Francesca Lazzarotto, Francesca Mori, Gary Wong, Gideon Lack, Graham Roberts, Gustavo Andres Marino, H. N. G. Oude Elberink, Helen A. Brough, Hugh A. Sampson, Jay Lieberman, Jennifer Gerdts, Jing Zhao, Josefine Gradman, Julia E. M. Upton, Julie Wang, Kati Palosuo, Kirsi M. Järvinen, Kirsten Beyer, Kunling Shen, Laura Polloni, Lianne Mandelbaum, Luciana Kase Tanno, Lucy A. Bilaver, Marcus S. Shaker, Margitta Worm, Maria Said, Mary Kelly, Mary Jane Marchisotto, Michael Makris, Mikaela Odemyr, Montserrat Fernandez-Rivas, Motohiro Ebisawa, Nandinee Patel, Pablo Rodríguez del Río, Pakit Vichyanond, Paul Turner, Pete Smith, Pilar Morón Gaspar, R. Sharon Chinthrajah, Rima Rachid, Roberta Bonaguro, Ruchi Gupta, Sabine Schnadt, Sakura Sato, Stefania Arasi, Stephanie Leonard, Sung Poblete, Susanne Halken, Thuy-My Le, Guillaume Pouessel, Tracey Dunn, Victoria Cardona, Torsten Zuberbier. ‘Towards a common approach for managing food allergy and serious allergic reactions (anaphylaxis) at school. GA2LEN and EFA consensus statement’, Clinical Translational Allergy. 2024;e70013. https://doi.org/10.1002/clt2.70013
2024. Antonella Muraro, Debra de Silva, Marcia Podesta, Aikaterini Anagnostou, Victoria Cardona, Susanne Halken, Pete Smith, Luciana Kase Tanno, Paul Turner, Margitta Worm, Montserrat Alvaro-Lozano, Stefania Arasi, Anna Asarnoj, Simona Barni, Kirsten Beyer, Lucy A. Bilaver, Andrew Bird, Roberta Bonaguro, Helen A. Brough, R. Sharon Chinthrajah, Emma E. Cook, Céline Demoulin, Antoine Deschildre, Timothy E. Dribin, Motohiro Ebisawa, Montserrat Fernandez-Rivas, Alessandro Fiocchi, David M. Fleischer, Eleanor Garrow, Jennifer Gerdts, Mattia Giovannini, Kirsi M. Järvinen, Mary Kelly, Edward F. Knol, Gideon Lack, Francesca Lazzarotto, Thuy-My Le, Stephanie Leonard, Jay Lieberman, Michael Makris, Lianne Mandelbaum, Mary Jane Marchisotto, Gustavo Andres Marino, Francesca Mori, Caroline Nilsson, Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, Mikaela Odemyr, H. N. G. Oude Elberink, Kati Palosuo, Nandinee Patel, Jennifer Pier, Sung Poblete, Rima Rachid, Pablo Rodríguez del Río, Maria Said, Hugh A. Sampson, Angel Sánchez Sanz, Sabine Schnadt, Fallon Schultz, Alice Toniolo, Julia E. M. Upton, Carina Venter, Brian P. Vickery, Berber Vlieg-Boerstra, Julie Wang, Graham Roberts, Torsten Zuberbier. “10 practical priorities to prevent and manage serious allergic reactions: GA²LEN ANACare and EFA Anaphylaxis Manifesto.” Clinical and Translational Allergy. Available online (open access) at: https://doi.org/10.1002/clt2.70009
2024. Jennifer L. P. Protudjer, Daniel Munblit, Christian Apfelbacher, Mary Jane Marchisotto, Emma E. Cook, India Capper, Pablo Rodríguez Del Río, Pasquale Comberiati. “COFAITH and COMFA: A Collective Roadmap for Past and Future Food Allergy Clinical Trials and Observational Research on Interventions.” Clinical & Experimental Allergy;0:1-3. Available online (open access) at: https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.14522
2024. Anastasia Demidova, Karl Philipp Drewitz, Parisut Kimkool, Nikolina Banjanin, Vladyslava Barzylovich, Erna Botjes, India Capper, Mary Anne R. Castor, Pasquale Comberiati, Emma E. Cook, Joana Costa, Derek K. Chu, Michelle M. Epstein, Audrey Dunn Galvin, Mattia Giovannini, Frédéric Girard, Michael A. Golding, Matthew Greenhawt, Despo Ierodiakonou, Christina J. Jones, Ekaterina Khaleva, Rebecca C. Knibb, Melahat Sedanur Macit-Çelebi, Douglas P. Mack, Isabel Mafra, Mary Jane Marchisotto, Dragan Mijakoski, Nikita Nekliudov, Cevdet Özdemir, Nandinee Patel, Ekaterina Pazukhina, Jennifer L. P. Protudjer, Pablo Rodríguez del Rio, Jelena Roomet, Patrick Sammut, Ann-Marie Malby Schoos, Anita Fossaluzza Schopfer, Fallon Schultz, Nina Seylanova, Isabel Skypala, Martin Sørensen, Sasho Stoleski, Eva Stylianou, Julia Upton, Willem van de Veen, Jon Genuneit, Robert J. Boyle, Christian Apfelbacher, Daniel Munblit, COMFA Consortium. “Core Outcome Set for IgE-mediated food allergy clinical trials and observational studies of interventions: International Delphi consensus study ‘COMFA’”, Allergy. Available online (open access) at: https://doi.org/10.1111/all.16023
2023. “Anthropological and sociological perspectives on food allergy”, Clinical & Experimental Allergy 53 (10): 989-1003. Available online (open access) at: https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.14387
2023. ‘I’m Not a Real Freeter’: Aspiration and Non-Regular Labour in Japan’, in Huiyan Fu (ed.) Temporary and Gig Economy Workers in China and Japan: The Culture of Unequal Work. Pp 218-247.
2022. “Undoing, Doing, Redoing” Commentary on “We are not Ikumen, We are Self-Reliant Househusbands: Crafting a Stay-At-Home-Father Identity in Japan.” Current Anthropology 63 (5): 555-556.
2021. ‘E mbodied Memory and Affective Imagination: Navigating Food Allergies in Contemporary Japan‘ Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 45: 544-564.
2020. ‘Participant-Observation and Interviews: Going with the flow and dipping in and out’ in Nora Kottmann and Cornelia Reiher (eds.) Studying Japan: Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods. Baden-Baden: Nomos. Pp. 142-145.
2020. ‘Masculinity Studies in Japan’, in Jennifer Coates, Mark Pendleton and Lucy Fraser (eds.), Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture, London and New York: Routledge.
2019 Andrea De Antoni, Emma E. Cook Introduction – Feeling (with) Japan: Affective, Sensory and Material Entanglements in the Field Asian Anthropology 18(3): 139-153.
2019 ‘Food Allergies, Illness and Personhood in Japan’ in Hendry, Joy. Understanding Japanese Society. London and New York: Routledge. 5^th Edition.
2019. ‘Microbial Management.’ Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 25. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/microbial-management
2019. ‘Power, Intimacy, and Irregular Employment in Japan’, in Alexy, A and E.E. Cook (eds.) Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict. University of Hawai’i Press.
2019. ‘Reflections on Fieldwork: Exploring Intimacy’ in Alexy, A and E.E. Cook (eds.) Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
2019. ‘Exploring Masculinities and Labour through Intimacy’ in Alexy, A and E.E. Cook (eds.) Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
2018. ‘Human-Microbe Entanglements: Food Allergies in Japan and the UK’ in More-than-Human Worlds: A NatureCulture Blog Series (Peer-reviewed). Published July 4th 2018 at: https://www.natcult.net/human-microbe-entanglements/
2017. ‘Risk and Affective Co-ordination: Food Allergy Experiences in the UK‘ Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology (JRCA). Vol 18, Issue 1, pp. 129-142
2017. ‘Aspirational Labour, Performativity and Masculinities in the Making‘ Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. Issue 41
2016. ‘(Dis)Connections & Silence: Experiences of Family and Part-time Work in Japan‘ Japanese Studies Vol 36, Issue 2, pp. 155-172
2016. ‘Adulthood as Action: Changing Meanings of Adulthood for Male Part-Time Workers in Contemporary Japan.‘ Asian Journal of Social Science Vol. 44, Issue 3, pp. 317-337
2014. ‘Intimate Expectations and Practices: Freeter Relationships and Marriage in Contemporary Japan’ Asian Anthropology. Vol. 13, Issue 1, pp. 36-51
2013. ‘Expectations of Failure: Maturity and Masculinity for Freeters in Contemporary Japan’ Social Science Japan Journal. Vol. 16, Issue 1, pp. 29-43
2012. ‘Still a Child? Liminality and the Construction of Youthful Masculinities in Japan’ in Brison, K. and S. Dewey (eds.). Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters, and Xenomaniacs: Gender and Modernity in Youth Cultures. Syracuse University Press, Pp. 58-81.

Book Reviews (Invited)

2022. Review of Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy by Gabriele Koch. 2020. Social Science Japan Journal 25(1): 181-184.
2021. Review of Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination by Patrick. W. Galbraith. 2019. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27(2): 439-440.
2021. Review of Affective states: entanglements, suspensions, suspicions by Mateusz Laszczkowski & Madeleine Reeves (eds). 2018. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 27(1): 192-193.
2018. Review of Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club by Akiko Takeyama. 2016. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24(1): 197-198.
2017. Review of Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Love, Sex and Labor. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2016, by Ayako Kano. Japanese Studies 37(2): 265–266
2016. Review of Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2014, by Joseph D. Hankins. American Anthropologist 118 (1): 195-196
2015. Review of Dilemmas of Adulthood: Japanese Women and the Nuances of Long-Term Resistance, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2013, by Nancy Rosenberger. Japan Forum 27 (4): 566-568
2012. ‘Review of Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan’ in Social Science Japan Journal 15 (1): 153-156

Other

2017. Andrea De Antoni and Emma E Cook. ‘Feeling (in) Japan: Affective, Sensory and Material Entanglements in the Field’. EAJS Bulletin 88: 55-57.
2016. 「食物アレルギー対応が広がるには何が必要？／システムと文化の視点から」NPO法人アトピッ子地球の子ネットワーク　アレルギー相談をテーマにした：第3回事例検討報告集. Pp. 71-72.
2014. Review of Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives, by Anne Stefanie Aronsson. Dissertation Reviews.
2010. ‘充実した生き方をするためにフリーターが求めるもの’ in Kamizono Dai San Gou Heisei 22 Nen 5 Gatsu, Meiji Jingu Kokusai Shinto Bunka Kenkyuujou. [“Freeters’ Search for a Fulfilling Lifestyle” (Translated by Ito Moriyasu) in ‘Kamizono’ Journal of the Meiji Jingu Research Institute, No 3 May 2010)]

Accepted

“Lay Advocacy in Allergy and Immunology” (co-written with Carla Jones, Maria Said, Susanna Palkonen, and Tonya Winders), In The WAO Allergy Book (edited by Motohiro Ebisawa, Bryan Martin and Sandra González-Diaz).

In Preparation

Books, Peer Reviewed Journal Articles & Book Chapters:

Book tentatively titled: Risking Care, Difference, and Responsibility: Food Allergies in Japan.
“Futures in the Present: Food Allergy Disclosures at Work” submitted to a Special Issue of Contemporary Japan.
“Allergens, Microbes & Immunotherapy: Technologies of Care in Japanese Food Allergy Communities” to be submitted to Medicine Anthropology Theory.
“When Food is ‘Dangerous’: Food Allergies, Emotions and the Body” to be submitted to Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness