C Watanabe
Biographic Data
| ID | 17813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Watanabe |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Watanabe |
| SIGNATURE | WATANABE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5170-1585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Detouring
We live, it seems, in an age of preparedness. From risk calculations to scenario planning, experts engage in anticipatory governance, bringing the future into the present as a site of intervention, discipline and subject-formation. However, in my ethnographic research in Japan and elsewhere, disaster preparedness educators – city officials, non-profit organisations and community leaders educating lay citizens about preparedness – lament that most…
Imperialist Multispecies Aspirations
Humanities and social science scholars have recently turned their attention to the embeddedness of microbes in human life as a potential way to decentre the human and thereby decolonise assumptions about the human conquest of the natural world. In this article, I argue that, before such claims can be made, careful historical, regional, and ethnographic analyses of human-microbe relations are needed. My case study of a Japanese sustainable develop…
Patchwork ethnography
Many ethnographers feel the pressure to suspend familial and professional ties to separate "the field" from "home" for prolonged periods. Since 2019, we have been developing the concept of "patchwork ethnography" to spotlight how ethnographers conduct fieldwork amid intersecting personal and professional responsibilities. We interrogate how researchers' personal lives impact the process of knowledge production, showcase the innovations that have …
Everything is Patchwork! A Conversation about Methodological Experimentation with Patchwork Ethnography
This article collectively discusses creative feminist approaches to ethnographic methods developed in response to challenging social, personal, environmental, and temporal conditions and pressures. Patchwork Ethnography, developed by Gökçe Günel, Saiba Varma and Chika Watanabe, recognises mundane pressures, and works with insights and experiences that emerge not only from doing research, but from what happens around the edges. By rendering the ma…
Meretas Dilema, Ikhtiar Menemukan Cara
Instrumental Culturalism
As ‘emerging donors' push alternative paradigms of development cooperation ‘beyond aid' onto the global agenda, some scholars discuss those from Asia as presenting culturally specific approaches. These observations echo the claims that aid practitioners and policy makers themselves make about, for example, Japanese forms of development. In this article, I caution against scholars repeating these culturally essentialising arguments that promote ce…
Patchwork ethnography
Many ethnographers feel the pressure to suspend familial and professional ties to separate "the field" from "home" for prolonged periods. Since 2019, we have been developing the concept of "patchwork ethnography" to spotlight how ethnographers conduct fieldwork amid intersecting personal and professional responsibilities. We interrogate how researchers' personal lives impact the process of knowledge production, showcase the innovations that have …
Instrumental Culturalism
As ‘emerging donors' push alternative paradigms of development cooperation ‘beyond aid' onto the global agenda, some scholars discuss those from Asia as presenting culturally specific approaches. These observations echo the claims that aid practitioners and policy makers themselves make about, for example, Japanese forms of development. In this article, I caution against scholars repeating these culturally essentialising arguments that promote ce…
Everything is Patchwork! A Conversation about Methodological Experimentation with Patchwork Ethnography
This article collectively discusses creative feminist approaches to ethnographic methods developed in response to challenging social, personal, environmental, and temporal conditions and pressures. Patchwork Ethnography, developed by Gökçe Günel, Saiba Varma and Chika Watanabe, recognises mundane pressures, and works with insights and experiences that emerge not only from doing research, but from what happens around the edges. By rendering the ma…
Instrumental Culturalism
As ‘emerging donors' push alternative paradigms of development cooperation ‘beyond aid' onto the global agenda, some scholars discuss those from Asia as presenting culturally specific approaches. These observations echo the claims that aid practitioners and policy makers themselves make about, for example, Japanese forms of development. In this article, I caution against scholars repeating these culturally essentialising arguments that promote ce…
Meretas Dilema, Ikhtiar Menemukan Cara
Everything is Patchwork! A Conversation about Methodological Experimentation with Patchwork Ethnography
This article collectively discusses creative feminist approaches to ethnographic methods developed in response to challenging social, personal, environmental, and temporal conditions and pressures. Patchwork Ethnography, developed by Gökçe Günel, Saiba Varma and Chika Watanabe, recognises mundane pressures, and works with insights and experiences that emerge not only from doing research, but from what happens around the edges. By rendering the ma…
Imperialist Multispecies Aspirations
Humanities and social science scholars have recently turned their attention to the embeddedness of microbes in human life as a potential way to decentre the human and thereby decolonise assumptions about the human conquest of the natural world. In this article, I argue that, before such claims can be made, careful historical, regional, and ethnographic analyses of human-microbe relations are needed. My case study of a Japanese sustainable develop…
Patchwork ethnography
Many ethnographers feel the pressure to suspend familial and professional ties to separate "the field" from "home" for prolonged periods. Since 2019, we have been developing the concept of "patchwork ethnography" to spotlight how ethnographers conduct fieldwork amid intersecting personal and professional responsibilities. We interrogate how researchers' personal lives impact the process of knowledge production, showcase the innovations that have …
Detouring
We live, it seems, in an age of preparedness. From risk calculations to scenario planning, experts engage in anticipatory governance, bringing the future into the present as a site of intervention, discipline and subject-formation. However, in my ethnographic research in Japan and elsewhere, disaster preparedness educators – city officials, non-profit organisations and community leaders educating lay citizens about preparedness – lament that most…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Communication (1 work)