Sonja Ganseforth
Biographic Data
| ID | 313976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonja Ganseforth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonja |
| FAMILY NAME | Ganseforth |
| SIGNATURE | GANSEFORTH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4917-0791 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Protesting legacies
The Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games in Tokyo in 2021 will be remembered as the first Olympics to be postponed and held without in-person spectators during a global pandemic. The mega-event was also highly unpopular among the Japanese population in the weeks before the opening, but only a limited, yet consistent group of activists took to the streets to protest against it. Drawing on insights from ethnographic fieldwork at numerous protest eve…
Blue revitalization or dispossession? Reform of common resource management in Japanese small-scale fisheries
Based on in-depth anthropological field research in rural Japan, this paper analyses the ongoing reform of Japanese fishery governance and its social and environmental justice implications, as globally proliferating discourses on the 'blue economy' and 'blue growth' are driving the enclosure of one of the last vestiges of natural resource commons in small-scale fisheries. Coastal fisheries in Japan are often idealized as one of the last bastions …
Shifting Matter and Meanings in Japanese Seafood Assemblages
Despite the central role of seafood in Japanese cuisine, domestic fisheries are facing a severe crisis. Based on anthropological field research in fishing communities in southwestern Japan as well as on a sampling of cultural representations of fish, this contribution examines the changing cultural and socio-economic meanings and matter of fish in Japanese seafood assemblages: from sentient beings and commons cohabitants under existential threat …
Rethinking Locality in Japan
Anti-Olympic Rallying Points, Public Alienation, and Transnational Alliances
Since the radicalization of some leftist movements in the 1960s and 1970s, political activism in Japan is often met with skepticism or suspicion, and social movements are largely characterized by small and senior membership. Anti-Olympic opposition in Japan is largely sustained by activist veterans from this "invisible civil society". While this activism may alienate the public, connections to other Japanese social movements are rich, especially …
Blue revitalization or dispossession? Reform of common resource management in Japanese small-scale fisheries
Based on in-depth anthropological field research in rural Japan, this paper analyses the ongoing reform of Japanese fishery governance and its social and environmental justice implications, as globally proliferating discourses on the 'blue economy' and 'blue growth' are driving the enclosure of one of the last vestiges of natural resource commons in small-scale fisheries. Coastal fisheries in Japan are often idealized as one of the last bastions …
Protesting legacies
The Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games in Tokyo in 2021 will be remembered as the first Olympics to be postponed and held without in-person spectators during a global pandemic. The mega-event was also highly unpopular among the Japanese population in the weeks before the opening, but only a limited, yet consistent group of activists took to the streets to protest against it. Drawing on insights from ethnographic fieldwork at numerous protest eve…
Anti-Olympic Rallying Points, Public Alienation, and Transnational Alliances
Since the radicalization of some leftist movements in the 1960s and 1970s, political activism in Japan is often met with skepticism or suspicion, and social movements are largely characterized by small and senior membership. Anti-Olympic opposition in Japan is largely sustained by activist veterans from this "invisible civil society". While this activism may alienate the public, connections to other Japanese social movements are rich, especially …
Rethinking Locality in Japan
Shifting Matter and Meanings in Japanese Seafood Assemblages
Despite the central role of seafood in Japanese cuisine, domestic fisheries are facing a severe crisis. Based on anthropological field research in fishing communities in southwestern Japan as well as on a sampling of cultural representations of fish, this contribution examines the changing cultural and socio-economic meanings and matter of fish in Japanese seafood assemblages: from sentient beings and commons cohabitants under existential threat …
Protesting legacies
The Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games in Tokyo in 2021 will be remembered as the first Olympics to be postponed and held without in-person spectators during a global pandemic. The mega-event was also highly unpopular among the Japanese population in the weeks before the opening, but only a limited, yet consistent group of activists took to the streets to protest against it. Drawing on insights from ethnographic fieldwork at numerous protest eve…
Blue revitalization or dispossession? Reform of common resource management in Japanese small-scale fisheries
Based on in-depth anthropological field research in rural Japan, this paper analyses the ongoing reform of Japanese fishery governance and its social and environmental justice implications, as globally proliferating discourses on the 'blue economy' and 'blue growth' are driving the enclosure of one of the last vestiges of natural resource commons in small-scale fisheries. Coastal fisheries in Japan are often idealized as one of the last bastions …
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Fishery (2 works) · Fishing (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (2 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (2 works)