“African Potential” and overcoming the difficulties of modern world: comprehensive area studies that will provide a new perspective for the future of humanity | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S)

Chizuko Sato

	Institute of Developing Economies, IDE-JETRO
Research Fields	I am studying politics and societies in South Africa with a focus on issues surrounding land and labor migration. In particular, I am currently interested in restructuring the relationship between agriculture, people and farming communities in Africa through land reform, how identities connected to the land change over time, and issues of social integration among immigrants and refugees from African countries.
Main Works	Chizuko Sato, 2016. “In Pursuit of Safety and Opportunity: Livelihood Strategies of Congolese Asylum-seekers and Refugees in Cape Town, South Africa”, Paper presented at the 4th Pécs African Studies Conference, African Globalities – Global Africans, 9-10 June, University of Pécs, Hungary. Kumiko Makino and Chizuko Sato, eds., 2013. Public Policy and Transformation in South Africa after Democratisation, IDE Spot Survey 33, Chiba: Institute of Developing Economies, 121pp.

Kyoko Nakamura

	Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Toyo University
Research Fields	My research concerns the pastoralist Samburu people of Kenya. I have researched how their unique social system called age system and their life courses have changed over time, and the representation of “ethnic culture” in tourism and beads decorations. In recent years, the focus of my research has also been on the changing local attitudes and behavior toward female circumcision / female genital mutilation.
Main Works	Nakamura K. 2014 “Involvement in tourism and bodily changes: long braided hair and beaded neck of the pastoral Samburu” XVIII International Sociological Association, ISA, World Congress of Sociology． Nakamura K. 2013 “Alternative Life Course Among the Samburu Women: Changes in Circumcision, Marriage, and Childbearing” 56th Annual Meeting of ASA (African Studies Association) ． Nakamura K. 2012 “Masculine Image and “Warrior Identities”of the Samburu in Northern Kenya” 110th AAA Annual Meeting． Nakamura K. 2005 Adornments of the Samburu in Northern Kenya: A Comprehensive List. Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University. i-viii, 1-160.

Makoto Nishi

	Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University
Research Fields	I am interested in how health care policy in Africa is related to people’s quality of life and experience of sickness. I have studied the development of universal health care in Africa and anti-HIV treatment systems in Ethiopia. I have recently become interested in the lives of people living with epilepsy and their families.
Main Works	Nishi, Makoto. 2015. “Reconsidering Therapeutic Citizenship in the Era of Universal Treatment: (Dis)connectedness and (Non)transformation among the HIV-positive People in Ethiopia.” Presentation at the Minpaku Project Meeting: How Do Biomedicines Shape Life, Sociality and Landscape in Africa?, National Museum of Ethnology, Suita, Japan, September 25–27, 2015. Nishi, Makoto. 2014. “Care, Voice, and Womanhood: Narrative of an Ethiopian Woman with HIV.” Paper Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, JW Marriott Indianapolis Hotel, Indianapolis, USA, November 20–23, 2014.

Yumi Kamuro

	Kumamoto University Archives
Research Fields	I have conducted my research on the Herero people’s clothing, fashion, aesthetic attitudes, and their relationship with their colonial history in cities and villages in Namibia. I am interested in beauty and discipline developed through interaction between the local people and immigrants.
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Yukio Miyawaki

	College of Sustainable System Sciences
Research Fields	I have conducted research on pastoralist societies in south-western Ethiopia. I am interested in how pastoral lifestyles, ethnic relationships, as well as gender relationships among the ethnic groups have changed under the influence of the national government and the globalized political economy.
Main Works	Miyawaki, Yukio, 2010, ‘The interethnic relationship between the Hor and Ts’amako.’ In Echi Christina Gabbert and Sophia Thubauville (eds.) To Live with Others: Essays on Cultural Neighborhood in South Ethiopia, Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung、Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, pp.186-212. Miyawaki, Yukio, 2006, ‘Hor memory of Sidaama conquest’. In Ivo Strecker, Jean Lydall (eds.) “The Perils of Face :Essays on cultural contact, respect and self-esteem in southern Ethiopia”, Berlin: Lit Verag, pp.185-206.

Chihiro Ito

	Department of Culture, Faculty of Humanities, Fukuoka University
Research Fields	With a focus on Zambia and Zimbabwe, my research concerns village–city interactions, and the fishery resources in Lake Kariba. Regarding the latter, which is closely related to this project, I am currently conducting my research on how decrease of fish catches in Lake Kariba has influence on the changes in fishery system and relationships between those people involved in the fishing industry.
Main Works	Ito, C. 2014. “The Growth of ‘Rural Business’ and its Impact on Local Society in Zambia” In A. Takada, I. K. Nyamongo and K. Teshirogi eds. MILA Special Issue on Exploring African Potentials: The Dynamics of Action, Living Strategy, and Social Order in Southern Africa, 51-60. Ito, C. 2010. The Role of Labor Migration to Neighbouring Small Towns in Rural Livelihoods: A Case Study in Southern Province, Zambia. African Studies Quarterly 12(1): 45-72.

Maiko Kanda

	Institute of Education and Student Affairs, Niigata University
Research Fields	African literature (Anglophone countries), museum representation My interests lie on English literature in Africa, including Nigeria, Kenya and Zambia. I am particularly interested in the writing of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian writer. I also have a continuing research interests in how Africa is represented in museums, as well as how African people exhibit themselves.
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Akiyo Aminaka

	Africa Studies Group, Area Studies Center, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO)
Research Fields	I have a research interest in the changing face of southern Africa with focus on the movement of migrant labor between Mozambique and South Africa, and international relations. My previous research concerned the governmental policies that led to labor being sent from southern Mozambique to South Africa, and livelihood activities in the farming villages where the migrant workers came from. In recent years, however, I have developed an interest in the changing nature of the relationship between the north and south of Mozambique brought about by changes in the economic relationship with South Africa, as well as dramatic change in Mozambique’s domestic economic environment, from the perspective of democratization and decentralization.
Main Works	Aminaka, Akiyo (2013) “Transition in Immigration Policy: Inclusion and Exclusion in the South African State after Democratisation,” Public Policy and Transformation in South Africa after Democratization, IDE Spot Survey 33, pp.103-121.

Eri Hashimoto

	College of Arts, Rikkyo University
Research Fields	Specialization: Cultural and social anthropology I have studied the relationship between diviner beliefs and conflicts among the Nuer people in the Republic of South Sudan up until now. Since the eruption of the conflict in South Sudan in 2013, I have continued my research by tracing South Sudanese refugees who have fled to neighboring countries. At present, I am working on this research with interests in how they maintain their livelihood norms and social relationships in the areas to which they fled, as well as how they face their lives and their experiences of the conflicts while recreating their lives in the new environments.
Main Works	Hashimoto, Eri (2016)“When ‘Frontiers’ Intimidate a State: Roles and Local Accountability of a Non-state Armed Force in Post-independence South Sudan”, at Inter-Congress 2016 of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Hotel Palace, Croatia, May 4th – 9th. Hashimoto, Eri (2015)“Moral Imagination in Modes of Thought: A Case Study of Prophecy-fulfillment, an Anthropologist and the Nuer in Post-civil War South Sudan”, Australian Anthropological Society 2015 Conference, The University of Melbourne, Australia, December 1st-4th. Hashimoto, Eri (2013) Prophets, Prophecies and Inter-communal Conflict in Post-independence South Sudan. Nilo-Ethiopian Studies 18:37-44. Hashimoto, Eri (2013) Reviving Powers of the Past with Modern Technology : Aspects of Armed Youth and the Prophet in Jonglei State. Sophia Asian Studies 31: 161-173.

Atsushi Ichinose

	Departmento of Luso-Brazilian Studies of Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University
Research Fields	The subject of my study is literary works written in Portuguese in Lusophone African countries. Previously, I translated “Mayombe” (published by Ryokuchisha) by Pepetela, a leading writer in Angola. I have also researched the Creoles language based on Portuguese vocabulary, with a particular focus on Guinea Bissau.
Main Works	Ichinose, Atsushi. 2014. América Latina no imaginário popular e no mundo académico do Japão. Neoliberalism and Pos-Neoliberalism : Challenge and Response from Latin America. Busan University of Foreign Studies. Ichinose, Atsushi. 2008. Desafio da língua portuguesa no Japão contemporâneo.　11th Conference of the International Academy of Linguistic Law “Law, Language and Global Citizenship”　Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.