Atsuro Morita
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Atsuro Morita |
| GIVEN NAMES | Atsuro |
| FAMILY NAME | Morita |
| SIGNATURE | MORITA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Osaka |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 234 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict
How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers from diverse backgrounds unpack this question through a series of original and committed contributions to this wide-ranging volume. The authors explore practices of repairing damaged ecologies across different locations and geographies and offer innovative insights for the conservation, mending, care and em…
Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies
Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies
Being Affected by Sinking Deltas: Changing Landscapes, Resilience, and Complex Adaptive Systems in the Scientific Story of the Anthropocene
This paper considers recent studies of global environmental change and their impact on the deltas, social and ecological patches that epitomize an Anthropocene environmental dynamism. Looking into these delta studies, we explore an emerging imagination about human-planet relations. Specifically, we indicate that the relationship between the changing Earth and human activities depicted in these studies is comparable to the kind of affective relati…
The World Multiple: The Quotidian Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds
Introduction Grant Jun Otsuki, Shiho Satsuka, Keiichi Omura, and Atsuro Morita PART I: Entangled worldings 2. Earth-beings: Andean religion, but not only Marisol de la Cadena 3. Vertiginous worlds and emetic anthropologies Casper Brun Jensen 4. Doing and undoing caribou/atiku: Diffractive and divergent multiplicities and their cosmopolitical orientations Mario Blaser 5. Maps in action: Quotidian politics through boundary translational matrix for …
World Multiple: The Quotidian Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds
From Gravitational Machine to Universal Habitat: The Drainage Basin and Amphibious Futures in the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand
This paper elucidates the development of the drainage basin model, one particular frame for capturing the relative motion between water and land, by highlighting the parallel developments between scientific notion and water management infrastructures. Facilitating a continuous movement back and forth between science and infrastructure, the drainage basin allows for the revelation of unexpected forms of relatedness and has played an important role…
Introduction: Minor Traditions, Shizen Equivocations, and Sophisticated Conjunctions
This introduction examines the interrelations between the possible existence of multiple nature-cultures and the indisputable existence of distinct anthropological traditions. After offering some preliminary remarks on the problems with nature-culture, the article offers as an example the complex translations required for the Western idea of nature to gain foothold in Japanese anthropology. Patched together from Western and Chinese notions, Japan…
Delta Ontologies: Infrastructural Transformations in the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand
In this article, we explore a contrast between terrestrial and amphibious ways of imagining and intervening in deltas, which have given rise to contrasting delta ontologies. Whereas the former originated in Europe and focused on removing water for agriculture, the latter conceived of deltas as extending water flows. In Thailand’s Chao Phraya Delta these incongruent approaches have inspired very different forms of infrastructural development over …
Encounters, Trajectories, and the Ethnographic Moment: Why “Asia as Method” Still Matters
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Volume 11, Number 2, June 2017
Multispecies Infrastructure: Infrastructural Inversion and Involutionary Entanglements in the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand
This paper aims to elucidate the central role floating rice has played in the formation of water management infrastructure in the Chao Phraya delta in Thailand. Operating in the background of everyday activities, infrastructures often remain overlooked by the actors that rely on them. However at certain moments, such as breakdowns, infrastructures make visible usually hidden connections between humans and non-humans. In recent years, the infrastr…
Introduction: Infrastructures as Ontological Experiments
Infrastructures have conventionally been viewed as material substrates underlying social action. On this basis, cultural anthropology has engaged infrastructure as vehicles through which political values and symbols are made manifest. In contrast, this introduction, and the contributions that follow, specifies an orientation to infrastructures as ontological experiments. At issue is a view of infrastructures as experimental systems that integrate…
Infrastructures and Social Complexity: A Companion
Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with increasing concerns about climate change and the anthropocene, there is further an urgency around contemporary infrastructural provision: a concern about its fragility, and an awareness that these connective, rela…
Infrastructuring Amphibious Space: The Interplay of Aquatic and Terrestrial Infrastructures in the Chao Phraya Delta in Thailand
The historic flooding that occurred in 2011 in central Thailand revealed fierce struggles over flood protection, which were made particularly complex because of the unruly nature of water itself. The interplay between two forms of infrastructure, each of which shape the flows of water coursing through the Chao Phraya Delta, is key to understanding this complexity. As an ambiguous place in between the sea and land, a delta environment can be seen …
Infrastructures as Ontological Experiments
Ontology has recently gained renewed attention in science and technology studies and anthropology (e.g. Gad, Jensen and Winthereik 2015; Holbraad, Pedersen and Viveiros de Castro 2014; Woolgar and Lezaun 2013). Yet, it has a considerably longer pedigree than these recent debates might lead one to think. Experiments, of course, have long held the attention of sociologists, historians, and philosophers of science (Collins 1985; Gooding 1990; Shapin…
Infrastructures as Ontological Experiments
Ontology has recently gained renewed attention in science and technology studies and anthropology (e.g. Gad, Jensen and Winthereik 2015; Holbraad, Pedersen and Viveiros de Castro 2014; Woolgar and Lezaun 2013). Yet, it has a considerably longer pedigree than these recent debates might lead one to think. Experiments, of course, have long held the attention of sociologists, historians, and philosophers of science (Collins 1985; Gooding 1990; Shapin…
Traductions en mouvement: Circulations conceptuelles entre pratiques anthropologiques et pratiques indigènes
Dans cet article, nous portons l'attention sur certains liens importants entre les approches latérales et le tournant ontologique en anthropologie. Grâce à l'examen de certaines expériences ethnographiques récentes influencées par ces courants, nous tentons de mettre en évidence deux aspects de ces liens : (1) les mouvements transfrontières entre les pratiques de connaissances ethnographiques et les pratiques de connaissances autochtones ; (2) le…
Anthropology and STS: Generative interfaces, multiple locations
In this multi-authored essay, nine anthropologists working in different parts of the world take part in a conversation about the interfaces between anthropology and STS (science and technology studies). Through this conversation, multiple interfaces emerge that are heterogeneously composed according to the languages, places, and arguments from where they emerge. The authors explore these multiple interfaces as sites where encounters are also site…
The Ethnographic Machine: Experimenting with Context and Comparison in Strathernian Ethnography
Context holds a significant place mediating the conceptual and the empirical in ethnography. This modality of knowledge has also become a significant part of science and technology studies since the rise of laboratory studies. However, conventional modes of contextualization that locate the object of study within a whole-such as within a society or culture-have become a target of suspicion and criticism since the 1980s. This led to the radical al…
Ocean, travel, and equivocation: A response to Anne Salmond’s “Tears of Rangi
Salmond's paper speaks to two significant but rather underexplored aspects of the turn to ontology: travel and equivocation. In current debates, the ontological turn is often taken as a (re)turn to the radical alterity of non-Western modes of conceptualizing and composing worlds. The radical alterity of non-Western ontologies can be fruitfully understood in light of histories of travel that have brought about the encounter between Western and non…
Traveling Engineers, Machines, and Comparisons: Intersecting Imaginations and Journeys in the Thai Local Engineering Industry
Recent studies in STS and anthropology have elucidated that the travel of science has been entangled with various forms of travel, including indigenous modes. While the Western style of travel often entails comparative imaginations about the difference between places and people focusing on culture, some anthropologists argue that the indigenous conceptualization of difference and travel can be radically different from Western notions. This articl…
Traveling Comparisons: Ethnographic Reflections on Science and Technology
This special issue aims to investigate some novel uses of the comparative method at the intersections of STS and anthropology through ethnographic accounts of technoscience in various Asian contexts. In today's globalizing world, knowledge is under constant negotiation and reordering around conflicting ideas of progress and development. Nowhere is it more evident than in the daily practices of living and working with old and new technologies. Sci…
Anthropology as critique of reality: A Japanese turn
The impetus for this forum was the recent publication in Japan of the volume Genjitsu Hihan no Jinruigaku (Anthropology as critique of reality) edited by Professor Naoki Kasuga. In the Japanese context, this volume represents the emergent interest in what has come to be called the "the ontological turn" in Euro-American anthropology. This forum offers a depiction of the anthropological genealogies that led to the Japanese interest in "ontological…
"In between the Cosmos and "Thousand-Cubed Great Thousands Worlds: Composition of Uncommon Worlds by Alexander von Humboldt and King Mongkut
Recent scholarship on Indigenous politics has illuminated the complex entanglements of science, bureaucracy, social movements and cosmological practices that tend to occur wherever Indigenous practices meet modern environmental management. These studies have shown how the powerful operations of science and bureaucracy, instantiating Western ontology, have eliminated Indigenous ontologies from public arenas such as those of policy-making. The redu…
Introduction: Infrastructures as Ontological Experiments
Infrastructures have conventionally been viewed as material substrates underlying social action. On this basis, cultural anthropology has engaged infrastructure as vehicles through which political values and symbols are made manifest. In contrast, this introduction, and the contributions that follow, specifies an orientation to infrastructures as ontological experiments. At issue is a view of infrastructures as experimental systems that integrate…
Multispecies Infrastructure: Infrastructural Inversion and Involutionary Entanglements in the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand
This paper aims to elucidate the central role floating rice has played in the formation of water management infrastructure in the Chao Phraya delta in Thailand. Operating in the background of everyday activities, infrastructures often remain overlooked by the actors that rely on them. However at certain moments, such as breakdowns, infrastructures make visible usually hidden connections between humans and non-humans. In recent years, the infrastr…
Anthropology and STS: Generative interfaces, multiple locations
In this multi-authored essay, nine anthropologists working in different parts of the world take part in a conversation about the interfaces between anthropology and STS (science and technology studies). Through this conversation, multiple interfaces emerge that are heterogeneously composed according to the languages, places, and arguments from where they emerge. The authors explore these multiple interfaces as sites where encounters are also site…
The Ethnographic Machine: Experimenting with Context and Comparison in Strathernian Ethnography
Context holds a significant place mediating the conceptual and the empirical in ethnography. This modality of knowledge has also become a significant part of science and technology studies since the rise of laboratory studies. However, conventional modes of contextualization that locate the object of study within a whole-such as within a society or culture-have become a target of suspicion and criticism since the 1980s. This led to the radical al…
Infrastructuring Amphibious Space: The Interplay of Aquatic and Terrestrial Infrastructures in the Chao Phraya Delta in Thailand
The historic flooding that occurred in 2011 in central Thailand revealed fierce struggles over flood protection, which were made particularly complex because of the unruly nature of water itself. The interplay between two forms of infrastructure, each of which shape the flows of water coursing through the Chao Phraya Delta, is key to understanding this complexity. As an ambiguous place in between the sea and land, a delta environment can be seen …
Anthropology as critique of reality: A Japanese turn
The impetus for this forum was the recent publication in Japan of the volume Genjitsu Hihan no Jinruigaku (Anthropology as critique of reality) edited by Professor Naoki Kasuga. In the Japanese context, this volume represents the emergent interest in what has come to be called the "the ontological turn" in Euro-American anthropology. This forum offers a depiction of the anthropological genealogies that led to the Japanese interest in "ontological…
Being Affected by Sinking Deltas: Changing Landscapes, Resilience, and Complex Adaptive Systems in the Scientific Story of the Anthropocene
This paper considers recent studies of global environmental change and their impact on the deltas, social and ecological patches that epitomize an Anthropocene environmental dynamism. Looking into these delta studies, we explore an emerging imagination about human-planet relations. Specifically, we indicate that the relationship between the changing Earth and human activities depicted in these studies is comparable to the kind of affective relati…
Traveling Engineers, Machines, and Comparisons: Intersecting Imaginations and Journeys in the Thai Local Engineering Industry
Recent studies in STS and anthropology have elucidated that the travel of science has been entangled with various forms of travel, including indigenous modes. While the Western style of travel often entails comparative imaginations about the difference between places and people focusing on culture, some anthropologists argue that the indigenous conceptualization of difference and travel can be radically different from Western notions. This articl…
Traveling Comparisons: Ethnographic Reflections on Science and Technology
This special issue aims to investigate some novel uses of the comparative method at the intersections of STS and anthropology through ethnographic accounts of technoscience in various Asian contexts. In today's globalizing world, knowledge is under constant negotiation and reordering around conflicting ideas of progress and development. Nowhere is it more evident than in the daily practices of living and working with old and new technologies. Sci…
"In between the Cosmos and "Thousand-Cubed Great Thousands Worlds: Composition of Uncommon Worlds by Alexander von Humboldt and King Mongkut
Recent scholarship on Indigenous politics has illuminated the complex entanglements of science, bureaucracy, social movements and cosmological practices that tend to occur wherever Indigenous practices meet modern environmental management. These studies have shown how the powerful operations of science and bureaucracy, instantiating Western ontology, have eliminated Indigenous ontologies from public arenas such as those of policy-making. The redu…
Traductions en mouvement: Circulations conceptuelles entre pratiques anthropologiques et pratiques indigènes
Dans cet article, nous portons l'attention sur certains liens importants entre les approches latérales et le tournant ontologique en anthropologie. Grâce à l'examen de certaines expériences ethnographiques récentes influencées par ces courants, nous tentons de mettre en évidence deux aspects de ces liens : (1) les mouvements transfrontières entre les pratiques de connaissances ethnographiques et les pratiques de connaissances autochtones ; (2) le…
Ocean, travel, and equivocation: A response to Anne Salmond’s “Tears of Rangi
Salmond's paper speaks to two significant but rather underexplored aspects of the turn to ontology: travel and equivocation. In current debates, the ontological turn is often taken as a (re)turn to the radical alterity of non-Western modes of conceptualizing and composing worlds. The radical alterity of non-Western ontologies can be fruitfully understood in light of histories of travel that have brought about the encounter between Western and non…
"In between the Cosmos and "Thousand-Cubed Great Thousands Worlds: Composition of Uncommon Worlds by Alexander von Humboldt and King Mongkut
Recent scholarship on Indigenous politics has illuminated the complex entanglements of science, bureaucracy, social movements and cosmological practices that tend to occur wherever Indigenous practices meet modern environmental management. These studies have shown how the powerful operations of science and bureaucracy, instantiating Western ontology, have eliminated Indigenous ontologies from public arenas such as those of policy-making. The redu…
Anthropology as critique of reality: A Japanese turn
The impetus for this forum was the recent publication in Japan of the volume Genjitsu Hihan no Jinruigaku (Anthropology as critique of reality) edited by Professor Naoki Kasuga. In the Japanese context, this volume represents the emergent interest in what has come to be called the "the ontological turn" in Euro-American anthropology. This forum offers a depiction of the anthropological genealogies that led to the Japanese interest in "ontological…
Traveling Engineers, Machines, and Comparisons: Intersecting Imaginations and Journeys in the Thai Local Engineering Industry
Recent studies in STS and anthropology have elucidated that the travel of science has been entangled with various forms of travel, including indigenous modes. While the Western style of travel often entails comparative imaginations about the difference between places and people focusing on culture, some anthropologists argue that the indigenous conceptualization of difference and travel can be radically different from Western notions. This articl…
Traveling Comparisons: Ethnographic Reflections on Science and Technology
This special issue aims to investigate some novel uses of the comparative method at the intersections of STS and anthropology through ethnographic accounts of technoscience in various Asian contexts. In today's globalizing world, knowledge is under constant negotiation and reordering around conflicting ideas of progress and development. Nowhere is it more evident than in the daily practices of living and working with old and new technologies. Sci…
The Ethnographic Machine: Experimenting with Context and Comparison in Strathernian Ethnography
Context holds a significant place mediating the conceptual and the empirical in ethnography. This modality of knowledge has also become a significant part of science and technology studies since the rise of laboratory studies. However, conventional modes of contextualization that locate the object of study within a whole-such as within a society or culture-have become a target of suspicion and criticism since the 1980s. This led to the radical al…
Ocean, travel, and equivocation: A response to Anne Salmond’s “Tears of Rangi
Salmond's paper speaks to two significant but rather underexplored aspects of the turn to ontology: travel and equivocation. In current debates, the ontological turn is often taken as a (re)turn to the radical alterity of non-Western modes of conceptualizing and composing worlds. The radical alterity of non-Western ontologies can be fruitfully understood in light of histories of travel that have brought about the encounter between Western and non…
Infrastructures as Ontological Experiments
Ontology has recently gained renewed attention in science and technology studies and anthropology (e.g. Gad, Jensen and Winthereik 2015; Holbraad, Pedersen and Viveiros de Castro 2014; Woolgar and Lezaun 2013). Yet, it has a considerably longer pedigree than these recent debates might lead one to think. Experiments, of course, have long held the attention of sociologists, historians, and philosophers of science (Collins 1985; Gooding 1990; Shapin…
Infrastructures as Ontological Experiments
Ontology has recently gained renewed attention in science and technology studies and anthropology (e.g. Gad, Jensen and Winthereik 2015; Holbraad, Pedersen and Viveiros de Castro 2014; Woolgar and Lezaun 2013). Yet, it has a considerably longer pedigree than these recent debates might lead one to think. Experiments, of course, have long held the attention of sociologists, historians, and philosophers of science (Collins 1985; Gooding 1990; Shapin…
Traductions en mouvement: Circulations conceptuelles entre pratiques anthropologiques et pratiques indigènes
Dans cet article, nous portons l'attention sur certains liens importants entre les approches latérales et le tournant ontologique en anthropologie. Grâce à l'examen de certaines expériences ethnographiques récentes influencées par ces courants, nous tentons de mettre en évidence deux aspects de ces liens : (1) les mouvements transfrontières entre les pratiques de connaissances ethnographiques et les pratiques de connaissances autochtones ; (2) le…
Anthropology and STS: Generative interfaces, multiple locations
In this multi-authored essay, nine anthropologists working in different parts of the world take part in a conversation about the interfaces between anthropology and STS (science and technology studies). Through this conversation, multiple interfaces emerge that are heterogeneously composed according to the languages, places, and arguments from where they emerge. The authors explore these multiple interfaces as sites where encounters are also site…
Infrastructures and Social Complexity: A Companion
Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with increasing concerns about climate change and the anthropocene, there is further an urgency around contemporary infrastructural provision: a concern about its fragility, and an awareness that these connective, rela…
Infrastructuring Amphibious Space: The Interplay of Aquatic and Terrestrial Infrastructures in the Chao Phraya Delta in Thailand
The historic flooding that occurred in 2011 in central Thailand revealed fierce struggles over flood protection, which were made particularly complex because of the unruly nature of water itself. The interplay between two forms of infrastructure, each of which shape the flows of water coursing through the Chao Phraya Delta, is key to understanding this complexity. As an ambiguous place in between the sea and land, a delta environment can be seen …
From Gravitational Machine to Universal Habitat: The Drainage Basin and Amphibious Futures in the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand
This paper elucidates the development of the drainage basin model, one particular frame for capturing the relative motion between water and land, by highlighting the parallel developments between scientific notion and water management infrastructures. Facilitating a continuous movement back and forth between science and infrastructure, the drainage basin allows for the revelation of unexpected forms of relatedness and has played an important role…
Introduction: Minor Traditions, Shizen Equivocations, and Sophisticated Conjunctions
This introduction examines the interrelations between the possible existence of multiple nature-cultures and the indisputable existence of distinct anthropological traditions. After offering some preliminary remarks on the problems with nature-culture, the article offers as an example the complex translations required for the Western idea of nature to gain foothold in Japanese anthropology. Patched together from Western and Chinese notions, Japan…
Delta Ontologies: Infrastructural Transformations in the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand
In this article, we explore a contrast between terrestrial and amphibious ways of imagining and intervening in deltas, which have given rise to contrasting delta ontologies. Whereas the former originated in Europe and focused on removing water for agriculture, the latter conceived of deltas as extending water flows. In Thailand’s Chao Phraya Delta these incongruent approaches have inspired very different forms of infrastructural development over …
Encounters, Trajectories, and the Ethnographic Moment: Why “Asia as Method” Still Matters
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Volume 11, Number 2, June 2017
Multispecies Infrastructure: Infrastructural Inversion and Involutionary Entanglements in the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand
This paper aims to elucidate the central role floating rice has played in the formation of water management infrastructure in the Chao Phraya delta in Thailand. Operating in the background of everyday activities, infrastructures often remain overlooked by the actors that rely on them. However at certain moments, such as breakdowns, infrastructures make visible usually hidden connections between humans and non-humans. In recent years, the infrastr…
Introduction: Infrastructures as Ontological Experiments
Infrastructures have conventionally been viewed as material substrates underlying social action. On this basis, cultural anthropology has engaged infrastructure as vehicles through which political values and symbols are made manifest. In contrast, this introduction, and the contributions that follow, specifies an orientation to infrastructures as ontological experiments. At issue is a view of infrastructures as experimental systems that integrate…
The World Multiple: The Quotidian Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds
Introduction Grant Jun Otsuki, Shiho Satsuka, Keiichi Omura, and Atsuro Morita PART I: Entangled worldings 2. Earth-beings: Andean religion, but not only Marisol de la Cadena 3. Vertiginous worlds and emetic anthropologies Casper Brun Jensen 4. Doing and undoing caribou/atiku: Diffractive and divergent multiplicities and their cosmopolitical orientations Mario Blaser 5. Maps in action: Quotidian politics through boundary translational matrix for …
World Multiple: The Quotidian Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds
Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies
Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies
Being Affected by Sinking Deltas: Changing Landscapes, Resilience, and Complex Adaptive Systems in the Scientific Story of the Anthropocene
This paper considers recent studies of global environmental change and their impact on the deltas, social and ecological patches that epitomize an Anthropocene environmental dynamism. Looking into these delta studies, we explore an emerging imagination about human-planet relations. Specifically, we indicate that the relationship between the changing Earth and human activities depicted in these studies is comparable to the kind of affective relati…
Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict
How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers from diverse backgrounds unpack this question through a series of original and committed contributions to this wide-ranging volume. The authors explore practices of repairing damaged ecologies across different locations and geographies and offer innovative insights for the conservation, mending, care and em…
Sociology (16 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (9 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Ontology (7 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)