Chizu Sato
Biographic Data
| ID | 157013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chizu Sato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chizu |
| FAMILY NAME | Sato |
| SIGNATURE | SATO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5656-0280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sustaining the Territory with Agave Pulquero in Rural Mexico: A Transdisciplinary Approach to More-Than-Human Care Commoning
Renewable Energy Transitions in Rural Tourism Development in a Japanese Hot Spring Village: A Social Practice Analysis
This study analyses how renewable energy transitions, intertwined with rural revitalisation, evolved into energy tourism at a hot spring (onsen) tourism destination in rural Japan, where onsen water has long been part of local culture and everyday life. Using social practice theory, the study demonstrates how geothermal energy was integrated into tourism not by introducing disruptive new infrastructure but by building on traditional onsen practic…
Caring Communities for Radical Change: What Can Feminist Political Ecology Bring to Degrowth?
In this chapter, we share the insights of feminist political ecology (FPE) for degrowth, building from the debates on “caring communities for radical change” at the 8th International Degrowth Conference in August 2021. We discuss how FPE links to the principles of degrowth as an academic and activist movement and why it is necessary to take feminist political ecology perspectives on care and caring communities in resisting, questioning, and count…
More-than-Human Commoning through Women’s Kokorozashi Business for Collective Well-being: A Case from Aging and Depopulating Rural Japan
Elderly women in depopulating and aging rural Japan confront their everyday challenges collectively through business practices based on kokorozashi – altruistic entrepreneurial practices through which they generate livelihoods and improve collective well-being. Drastic demographic changes and intensified economic globalization in the 1980s provoked precarity in rural livelihoods that depend on natural resource management. These changes simultaneo…
Revisiting “empowered rural women” in postwar Japan
In Japan, both rural studies and government policies commonly represent rural women in the same way: as oppressed within their feudalistic family farm system before the Second World War and as successfully empowered by rural democratization policies after the war. This study revisits the often unproblematized representations of the postwar success story of empowered rural women on which these accounts are frequently based. We examined rarely anal…
What if we decenter consumption and human in the study of consumption and sustainability? A commentary on ‘Care and consumption’ by Laurence Godin
This is a commentary on ‘Care and consumption’ (Godin, 2022). I offer my commentary to push some of the author’s points a bit further
Exploring gender and intersectionality from an assemblage perspective in food crop cultivation: A case of the Millennium Villages Project implementation site in western Kenya
Gender essentialism in development practice has been criticised for more than three decades with little effect. We use gender and intersectionality within the framework of assemblage to analyse the relations, practices, and intersections of both human and nonhuman elements within the context of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) in Luoland in western Kenya. This framework permits us to tease-apart essentially categorised ‘women’ revealing chan…
Toward a postcapitalist feminist political ecology’ approach to the commons and commoning
Feminist scholars are deeply involved in current global debates surrounding natural resource management. Looking at feminists’ engagement through the entry point of the commons and commoning, feminists’ voices are diverse. Somewhat separate from feminist discussions on commons and commoning, scholars of postcapitalist community economies have recently linked their scholarship to the study of commoning. This essay expands feminist political ecolog…
Rethinking Marxism: Valences of Hope in Otherworldly Times
In this essay the new editorial team introduce themselves, acknowledge the theoretical lineages and problematics that the journal has and will continue to explore, and highlight some of the themes that we expect to explore in the coming volumes. The essay provides both an account of the trajectories of capitalism through the last three decades (neoliberal and neocon counterrevolutions; the insurrection of the multitude, or the global crowd in the…
Educational Migrants, ICTs and Socio-Spatial Relationships: Establishing Presence from a Distance
Previous research on transnational migration and information and communication technologies (ICTs) demonstrated how ICTs shape transnational social relationships. What remains less explored is how ICTs shape spatial dimensions of such relationships. Also, international educational migrants constitute a substantial part of transnational migration flow, yet their everyday lives are not well studied. Building upon material semiotic scholarship, we e…
Enacting peasant moral community economies for sustainable livelihoods: A case of women-led cooperatives in rural Mexico
Gender, households and reintegration: Everyday lives of returned migrant women in rural northern Ghana
Since the late 1990s, migration of single women from the rural north to the urban south in Ghana has been making up a growing share of migrant streams. While the livelihood strategies of these migrant women in their southern destinations have been recently examined, the experience of reintegration for those who return to their place of origin has rarely been studied. Drawing on qualitative research with migrant women, returned migrant women (RMW)…
Two Frontiers of Development: A Transnational Feminist Analysis of Public-Private Partnerships for Women's Empowerment
Since the economic crisis of the past decade, public development organizations have increasingly partnered with large private corporations to empower women through business. Existing feminist analyses focus on those public-private partnerships (PPPs) that are global, agenda-setting, benchmarking, and service initiatives. However, there are door-to-door initiatives that aim to empower women at the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) by turning them into e…
Extending the moral economy beyond households: Gendered livelihood strategies of single migrant women in Accra, Ghana
Postcapitalist Encounters with Class and Community
Toward Transnational Feminist Literacy Practices
This essay expands transnational feminist methodology such that it better affirms both women's agency and noncapitalism. By bridging transnational feminism and antiessentialist Marxism in the context of feminist development studies, it builds on the contributions of Chandra Talpade Mohanty, which reorient modernist development to take women's agency seriously. However, the lens provided by J. K. Gibson-Graham and other antiessentialist Marxist au…
Is the Non-unitary Subject a Plausible and Productive Way to Understand Development Bureaucrats
Development bureaucrats are the human instruments of the policies that mobilise funds, create organisations and underwrite interventions. For their home audiences development organisations need to present bureaucrats who are reliable instruments. In the field these same organisations need staff who can do what makes sense. This arrangement works until what makes sense in head office does not work in the field. At that point staff have to ‘marry o…
Learning from weaknesses in teaching about culture: The case study of a Japanese school abroad
This paper examines education for cultural awareness in a Japanese school abroad from the perspective of the teachers. An attempt is made to identify the difficulties which might be encountered by teachers when teaching about the host society and its culture. The paper also examines how this particular school modified its existing approach to better address the dynamic and complex nature of intercultural understanding and exchange
Subjectivity, Enjoyment, and Development: Preliminary Thoughts on a New Approach to Postdevelopment
Over the past two decades postdevelopment critics, who often draw on the analysis of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, have challenged developmentalism by making visible mechanisms of power within the apparatus of development. While these analyses have opened certain fields of the possible, the continued strength of developmentalism suggests that we must extend the postdevelopment project. This essay draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Mar…
Education for international understanding in Japan: Japanese self‐identification and the discourse of internationalization after the Second World War
The principal focus of this study is to shed light on how the notion of education for international understanding has developed in Japan, particularly in relation to outside views of Japan in the d
Orientation in the Perception of Space
Toward a postcapitalist feminist political ecology’ approach to the commons and commoning
Feminist scholars are deeply involved in current global debates surrounding natural resource management. Looking at feminists’ engagement through the entry point of the commons and commoning, feminists’ voices are diverse. Somewhat separate from feminist discussions on commons and commoning, scholars of postcapitalist community economies have recently linked their scholarship to the study of commoning. This essay expands feminist political ecolog…
Extending the moral economy beyond households: Gendered livelihood strategies of single migrant women in Accra, Ghana
Enacting peasant moral community economies for sustainable livelihoods: A case of women-led cooperatives in rural Mexico
Exploring gender and intersectionality from an assemblage perspective in food crop cultivation: A case of the Millennium Villages Project implementation site in western Kenya
Gender essentialism in development practice has been criticised for more than three decades with little effect. We use gender and intersectionality within the framework of assemblage to analyse the relations, practices, and intersections of both human and nonhuman elements within the context of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) in Luoland in western Kenya. This framework permits us to tease-apart essentially categorised ‘women’ revealing chan…
Toward Transnational Feminist Literacy Practices
This essay expands transnational feminist methodology such that it better affirms both women's agency and noncapitalism. By bridging transnational feminism and antiessentialist Marxism in the context of feminist development studies, it builds on the contributions of Chandra Talpade Mohanty, which reorient modernist development to take women's agency seriously. However, the lens provided by J. K. Gibson-Graham and other antiessentialist Marxist au…
Subjectivity, Enjoyment, and Development: Preliminary Thoughts on a New Approach to Postdevelopment
Over the past two decades postdevelopment critics, who often draw on the analysis of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, have challenged developmentalism by making visible mechanisms of power within the apparatus of development. While these analyses have opened certain fields of the possible, the continued strength of developmentalism suggests that we must extend the postdevelopment project. This essay draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Mar…
Two Frontiers of Development: A Transnational Feminist Analysis of Public-Private Partnerships for Women's Empowerment
Since the economic crisis of the past decade, public development organizations have increasingly partnered with large private corporations to empower women through business. Existing feminist analyses focus on those public-private partnerships (PPPs) that are global, agenda-setting, benchmarking, and service initiatives. However, there are door-to-door initiatives that aim to empower women at the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) by turning them into e…
What if we decenter consumption and human in the study of consumption and sustainability? A commentary on ‘Care and consumption’ by Laurence Godin
This is a commentary on ‘Care and consumption’ (Godin, 2022). I offer my commentary to push some of the author’s points a bit further
Educational Migrants, ICTs and Socio-Spatial Relationships: Establishing Presence from a Distance
Previous research on transnational migration and information and communication technologies (ICTs) demonstrated how ICTs shape transnational social relationships. What remains less explored is how ICTs shape spatial dimensions of such relationships. Also, international educational migrants constitute a substantial part of transnational migration flow, yet their everyday lives are not well studied. Building upon material semiotic scholarship, we e…
Gender, households and reintegration: Everyday lives of returned migrant women in rural northern Ghana
Since the late 1990s, migration of single women from the rural north to the urban south in Ghana has been making up a growing share of migrant streams. While the livelihood strategies of these migrant women in their southern destinations have been recently examined, the experience of reintegration for those who return to their place of origin has rarely been studied. Drawing on qualitative research with migrant women, returned migrant women (RMW)…
Learning from weaknesses in teaching about culture: The case study of a Japanese school abroad
This paper examines education for cultural awareness in a Japanese school abroad from the perspective of the teachers. An attempt is made to identify the difficulties which might be encountered by teachers when teaching about the host society and its culture. The paper also examines how this particular school modified its existing approach to better address the dynamic and complex nature of intercultural understanding and exchange
Education for international understanding in Japan: Japanese self‐identification and the discourse of internationalization after the Second World War
The principal focus of this study is to shed light on how the notion of education for international understanding has developed in Japan, particularly in relation to outside views of Japan in the d
Orientation in the Perception of Space
Education for international understanding in Japan: Japanese self‐identification and the discourse of internationalization after the Second World War
The principal focus of this study is to shed light on how the notion of education for international understanding has developed in Japan, particularly in relation to outside views of Japan in the d
Subjectivity, Enjoyment, and Development: Preliminary Thoughts on a New Approach to Postdevelopment
Over the past two decades postdevelopment critics, who often draw on the analysis of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, have challenged developmentalism by making visible mechanisms of power within the apparatus of development. While these analyses have opened certain fields of the possible, the continued strength of developmentalism suggests that we must extend the postdevelopment project. This essay draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Mar…
Learning from weaknesses in teaching about culture: The case study of a Japanese school abroad
This paper examines education for cultural awareness in a Japanese school abroad from the perspective of the teachers. An attempt is made to identify the difficulties which might be encountered by teachers when teaching about the host society and its culture. The paper also examines how this particular school modified its existing approach to better address the dynamic and complex nature of intercultural understanding and exchange
Is the Non-unitary Subject a Plausible and Productive Way to Understand Development Bureaucrats
Development bureaucrats are the human instruments of the policies that mobilise funds, create organisations and underwrite interventions. For their home audiences development organisations need to present bureaucrats who are reliable instruments. In the field these same organisations need staff who can do what makes sense. This arrangement works until what makes sense in head office does not work in the field. At that point staff have to ‘marry o…
Postcapitalist Encounters with Class and Community
Toward Transnational Feminist Literacy Practices
This essay expands transnational feminist methodology such that it better affirms both women's agency and noncapitalism. By bridging transnational feminism and antiessentialist Marxism in the context of feminist development studies, it builds on the contributions of Chandra Talpade Mohanty, which reorient modernist development to take women's agency seriously. However, the lens provided by J. K. Gibson-Graham and other antiessentialist Marxist au…
Extending the moral economy beyond households: Gendered livelihood strategies of single migrant women in Accra, Ghana
Gender, households and reintegration: Everyday lives of returned migrant women in rural northern Ghana
Since the late 1990s, migration of single women from the rural north to the urban south in Ghana has been making up a growing share of migrant streams. While the livelihood strategies of these migrant women in their southern destinations have been recently examined, the experience of reintegration for those who return to their place of origin has rarely been studied. Drawing on qualitative research with migrant women, returned migrant women (RMW)…
Two Frontiers of Development: A Transnational Feminist Analysis of Public-Private Partnerships for Women's Empowerment
Since the economic crisis of the past decade, public development organizations have increasingly partnered with large private corporations to empower women through business. Existing feminist analyses focus on those public-private partnerships (PPPs) that are global, agenda-setting, benchmarking, and service initiatives. However, there are door-to-door initiatives that aim to empower women at the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) by turning them into e…
Enacting peasant moral community economies for sustainable livelihoods: A case of women-led cooperatives in rural Mexico
Toward a postcapitalist feminist political ecology’ approach to the commons and commoning
Feminist scholars are deeply involved in current global debates surrounding natural resource management. Looking at feminists’ engagement through the entry point of the commons and commoning, feminists’ voices are diverse. Somewhat separate from feminist discussions on commons and commoning, scholars of postcapitalist community economies have recently linked their scholarship to the study of commoning. This essay expands feminist political ecolog…
Rethinking Marxism: Valences of Hope in Otherworldly Times
In this essay the new editorial team introduce themselves, acknowledge the theoretical lineages and problematics that the journal has and will continue to explore, and highlight some of the themes that we expect to explore in the coming volumes. The essay provides both an account of the trajectories of capitalism through the last three decades (neoliberal and neocon counterrevolutions; the insurrection of the multitude, or the global crowd in the…
Educational Migrants, ICTs and Socio-Spatial Relationships: Establishing Presence from a Distance
Previous research on transnational migration and information and communication technologies (ICTs) demonstrated how ICTs shape transnational social relationships. What remains less explored is how ICTs shape spatial dimensions of such relationships. Also, international educational migrants constitute a substantial part of transnational migration flow, yet their everyday lives are not well studied. Building upon material semiotic scholarship, we e…
Revisiting “empowered rural women” in postwar Japan
In Japan, both rural studies and government policies commonly represent rural women in the same way: as oppressed within their feudalistic family farm system before the Second World War and as successfully empowered by rural democratization policies after the war. This study revisits the often unproblematized representations of the postwar success story of empowered rural women on which these accounts are frequently based. We examined rarely anal…
What if we decenter consumption and human in the study of consumption and sustainability? A commentary on ‘Care and consumption’ by Laurence Godin
This is a commentary on ‘Care and consumption’ (Godin, 2022). I offer my commentary to push some of the author’s points a bit further
Exploring gender and intersectionality from an assemblage perspective in food crop cultivation: A case of the Millennium Villages Project implementation site in western Kenya
Gender essentialism in development practice has been criticised for more than three decades with little effect. We use gender and intersectionality within the framework of assemblage to analyse the relations, practices, and intersections of both human and nonhuman elements within the context of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) in Luoland in western Kenya. This framework permits us to tease-apart essentially categorised ‘women’ revealing chan…
Caring Communities for Radical Change: What Can Feminist Political Ecology Bring to Degrowth?
In this chapter, we share the insights of feminist political ecology (FPE) for degrowth, building from the debates on “caring communities for radical change” at the 8th International Degrowth Conference in August 2021. We discuss how FPE links to the principles of degrowth as an academic and activist movement and why it is necessary to take feminist political ecology perspectives on care and caring communities in resisting, questioning, and count…
More-than-Human Commoning through Women’s Kokorozashi Business for Collective Well-being: A Case from Aging and Depopulating Rural Japan
Elderly women in depopulating and aging rural Japan confront their everyday challenges collectively through business practices based on kokorozashi – altruistic entrepreneurial practices through which they generate livelihoods and improve collective well-being. Drastic demographic changes and intensified economic globalization in the 1980s provoked precarity in rural livelihoods that depend on natural resource management. These changes simultaneo…
Sustaining the Territory with Agave Pulquero in Rural Mexico: A Transdisciplinary Approach to More-Than-Human Care Commoning
Renewable Energy Transitions in Rural Tourism Development in a Japanese Hot Spring Village: A Social Practice Analysis
This study analyses how renewable energy transitions, intertwined with rural revitalisation, evolved into energy tourism at a hot spring (onsen) tourism destination in rural Japan, where onsen water has long been part of local culture and everyday life. Using social practice theory, the study demonstrates how geothermal energy was integrated into tourism not by introducing disruptive new infrastructure but by building on traditional onsen practic…
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