Publications

Books

• 2016 Reconstructing Adult Masculinities: Part-time Work in Contemporary Japan. London and New York: Routledge.
  • reviewed by Futoshi Taga in the Journal of Japanese Studies 44:2 Summer 2019.

Edited Books & Special Issues

• 2019 “Feeling (with) Japan: Affective, Sensory and Material Entanglements in the Field.” (co-edited with Andrea De Antoni) Asian Anthropology.18(3)
• 2019. Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict. (co-edited with Allison Alexy). 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 & Blogs

• 2024 (co-authored with Anastasia Demidova et al.) “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. ‘Embodied 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 Introduction – Feeling (with) Japan: Affective, Sensory and Material Entanglements in the Field (co-authored with Andrea De Antoni) in 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^thEdition.
• 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 (with Andrea De Antoni). ‘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 & Forthcoming

• “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:

• Edited book titled: Affect as Cultural Critique: Methods for Anthropological Discovery. (Editors: Daniel White, Emma E. Cook and Andrea De Antoni). 
• “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 Discovery. 
• Book tentatively titled: Risking Care, Difference, and Responsibility: Food Allergies in Japan.
• “Uncertainty and Risk: Food Allergies at Work” to be 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