Aya H Kimura
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3959686 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Aya H Kimura |
| NOMBRES | Aya H |
| APELLIDO | Kimura |
| FIRMA | KIMURA A H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2685-1984 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Ethics and Aesthetics of Alternative Proteins in Japan
Tsukemono (Japanese pickles) and Their Traditional Vegetables
A festival for tsukemono, Japanese pickles, is held every year in August at a shrine at Kayatsu Shrine. Priests, people from the industry, and regular participants offer prayers and then make a procession to Kōbutsuden (tsukemono pavilion), a place dedicated to tsukemono. There, participants make tsukemono, putting salt and vegetables that have been ritualistically cleansed into the ceramic pots to marinate. After several months, the resulting ts…
Pickles and agrobiodiversity
When citizen science is public relations
Amid rising interest in participatory research, some industries have recently begun to practice public relations citizen science (PRCS). Unlike citizen science and crowdsourcing projects that generate raw materials for product development, PRCS benefits capitalist firms primarily by improving their public image and deflecting accusations of causing harm. Three cases illustrate how PRCS works: (1) a growing assortment of citizen science projects a…
Citizen science and social movements
Agrifood related social controversies tend to involve scientific issues and advocacy groups increasingly turn to citizen science (CS), participatory data taking by regular people, to produce health and environmental data. A common assumption is that CS's value lies in the data produced, and its volume and quality decide its persuasive power. This article describes participatory monitoring of genetically engineered rapeseed (canola) in Japan to su…
Science by the People
Science by the People
Citizen science-research involving nonprofessionals in the research process-has attracted both strong enthusiasts and detractors. Many environmental professionals, activists, and scholars consider citizen science part of their toolkit for addressing environmental challenges. Critics, however, contend that it represents a corporate takeover of scientific priorities. In this timely book, two sociologists move beyond this binary debate by analyzing …
Science by the People
Hungry in Japan
In addition to other forms of precarity, food insecurity-citizens not having access to nutritious food-is an issue of growing concern in contemporary Japan. This article explores societal responses and documents a strong growth of volunteerism in the form of food banks andkodomo shokudō(children's cafeterias) that offer cheap or free meals to children in need. Both types of programs have become more common since the mid-2000s and are filling a vo…
Citizen Science in Post-Fukushima Japan
After the Fukushima nuclear accident, many laywomen established citizen radiation measuring organizations (CRMOs) to measure the concentration of radioactive materials in food to ensure its safety. These women had diverse motivations. As caretakers, many wanted to protect their families. Others saw it as important to arm themselves with science when the broader social discourse portrayed contamination concerns as irrational and harmful to food pr…
Fukushima Ethos
ETHOS Fukushima is a risk communication (RC) program organized after the Fukushima nuclear accident by the International Commission on Radiological Protection and other international organizations supported by the Japanese government. ETHOS has been hailed as a model RC that is participatory and dialogue-based. Yet the critical and feminist literature has shown the need for analyzing the power relations in participatory projects, and for analyzin…
Citizen Science
Citizen science is an increasingly popular activity, from bird counts to amateur water sample collection to air quality monitoring. Researchers and theorists in the field of science and technology studies (STS) have typically applauded these efforts because they make science more participatory, providing an example of the democratization of science, or, at least, more equitable engagement between experts and the lay public. However, a broader rev…
Risk Communication under Post-feminism
Management of risk perception, in addition to risk itself, is an important pillar of risk governance. Risk communication became pervasive in post-Fukushima Japan as the power industry grappled with the decline in support for and trust in nuclear power. Using case studies of risk communication programmes by the nuclear industry after the Fukushima nuclear accident, this article analyses the deployment of lay people, particularly women, in risk com…
Implications of Conservation Agriculture for Men's and Women's Workloads Among Marginalized Farmers in the Central Middle Hills of Nepal
Measures of gender-based labor distribution can contribute to understanding the feasibility of agricultural development in mountainous subsistence farming communities. Conservation agriculture (CA) can provide sustained crop yield and improved soil and water conservation in mountain areas prone to degradation and where few inputs are available. This study sought to measure the gendered labor impacts of CA practices and to assess their feasibility…
Differences in farmer and expert beliefs and the perceived impacts of conservation agriculture
Feminist Heuristics
Food safety and quality assurance systems have emerged as a key mechanism of food governance in recent years and are also popular among alternative agrofood movements, such as the organic and fair trade movements. Rural sociologists have identified many problems with existing systems, including corporate cooptation, the marginalization of small producers, and the depoliticization of consumer consciousness. Tackling these problems requires an epis…
Nationalism, Patriarchy, and Moralism
Government-led food reforms are increasingly prevalent and they are often seen as a welcome corrective to the neoliberalization of the agrofood system. Yet Japanese government's food reform initiatives demonstrates that government food reform does not necessarily increase oversight and regulation or address fundamental problems of the food system. Although the official goals of reform are food safety and public health, the Japanese government jux…
Food education as food literacy
Between technocracy and democracy
The chisan-chisho movement
Differences in farmer and expert beliefs and the perceived impacts of conservation agriculture
Food education as food literacy
The chisan-chisho movement
When citizen science is public relations
Amid rising interest in participatory research, some industries have recently begun to practice public relations citizen science (PRCS). Unlike citizen science and crowdsourcing projects that generate raw materials for product development, PRCS benefits capitalist firms primarily by improving their public image and deflecting accusations of causing harm. Three cases illustrate how PRCS works: (1) a growing assortment of citizen science projects a…
Citizen Science in Post-Fukushima Japan
After the Fukushima nuclear accident, many laywomen established citizen radiation measuring organizations (CRMOs) to measure the concentration of radioactive materials in food to ensure its safety. These women had diverse motivations. As caretakers, many wanted to protect their families. Others saw it as important to arm themselves with science when the broader social discourse portrayed contamination concerns as irrational and harmful to food pr…
Fukushima Ethos
ETHOS Fukushima is a risk communication (RC) program organized after the Fukushima nuclear accident by the International Commission on Radiological Protection and other international organizations supported by the Japanese government. ETHOS has been hailed as a model RC that is participatory and dialogue-based. Yet the critical and feminist literature has shown the need for analyzing the power relations in participatory projects, and for analyzin…
Between technocracy and democracy
Nationalism, Patriarchy, and Moralism
Government-led food reforms are increasingly prevalent and they are often seen as a welcome corrective to the neoliberalization of the agrofood system. Yet Japanese government's food reform initiatives demonstrates that government food reform does not necessarily increase oversight and regulation or address fundamental problems of the food system. Although the official goals of reform are food safety and public health, the Japanese government jux…
Citizen science and social movements
Agrifood related social controversies tend to involve scientific issues and advocacy groups increasingly turn to citizen science (CS), participatory data taking by regular people, to produce health and environmental data. A common assumption is that CS's value lies in the data produced, and its volume and quality decide its persuasive power. This article describes participatory monitoring of genetically engineered rapeseed (canola) in Japan to su…
Hungry in Japan
In addition to other forms of precarity, food insecurity-citizens not having access to nutritious food-is an issue of growing concern in contemporary Japan. This article explores societal responses and documents a strong growth of volunteerism in the form of food banks andkodomo shokudō(children's cafeterias) that offer cheap or free meals to children in need. Both types of programs have become more common since the mid-2000s and are filling a vo…
Feminist Heuristics
Food safety and quality assurance systems have emerged as a key mechanism of food governance in recent years and are also popular among alternative agrofood movements, such as the organic and fair trade movements. Rural sociologists have identified many problems with existing systems, including corporate cooptation, the marginalization of small producers, and the depoliticization of consumer consciousness. Tackling these problems requires an epis…
The chisan-chisho movement
Between technocracy and democracy
Food education as food literacy
Nationalism, Patriarchy, and Moralism
Government-led food reforms are increasingly prevalent and they are often seen as a welcome corrective to the neoliberalization of the agrofood system. Yet Japanese government's food reform initiatives demonstrates that government food reform does not necessarily increase oversight and regulation or address fundamental problems of the food system. Although the official goals of reform are food safety and public health, the Japanese government jux…
Feminist Heuristics
Food safety and quality assurance systems have emerged as a key mechanism of food governance in recent years and are also popular among alternative agrofood movements, such as the organic and fair trade movements. Rural sociologists have identified many problems with existing systems, including corporate cooptation, the marginalization of small producers, and the depoliticization of consumer consciousness. Tackling these problems requires an epis…
Implications of Conservation Agriculture for Men's and Women's Workloads Among Marginalized Farmers in the Central Middle Hills of Nepal
Measures of gender-based labor distribution can contribute to understanding the feasibility of agricultural development in mountainous subsistence farming communities. Conservation agriculture (CA) can provide sustained crop yield and improved soil and water conservation in mountain areas prone to degradation and where few inputs are available. This study sought to measure the gendered labor impacts of CA practices and to assess their feasibility…
Differences in farmer and expert beliefs and the perceived impacts of conservation agriculture
Citizen Science
Citizen science is an increasingly popular activity, from bird counts to amateur water sample collection to air quality monitoring. Researchers and theorists in the field of science and technology studies (STS) have typically applauded these efforts because they make science more participatory, providing an example of the democratization of science, or, at least, more equitable engagement between experts and the lay public. However, a broader rev…
Risk Communication under Post-feminism
Management of risk perception, in addition to risk itself, is an important pillar of risk governance. Risk communication became pervasive in post-Fukushima Japan as the power industry grappled with the decline in support for and trust in nuclear power. Using case studies of risk communication programmes by the nuclear industry after the Fukushima nuclear accident, this article analyses the deployment of lay people, particularly women, in risk com…
Citizen Science in Post-Fukushima Japan
After the Fukushima nuclear accident, many laywomen established citizen radiation measuring organizations (CRMOs) to measure the concentration of radioactive materials in food to ensure its safety. These women had diverse motivations. As caretakers, many wanted to protect their families. Others saw it as important to arm themselves with science when the broader social discourse portrayed contamination concerns as irrational and harmful to food pr…
Fukushima Ethos
ETHOS Fukushima is a risk communication (RC) program organized after the Fukushima nuclear accident by the International Commission on Radiological Protection and other international organizations supported by the Japanese government. ETHOS has been hailed as a model RC that is participatory and dialogue-based. Yet the critical and feminist literature has shown the need for analyzing the power relations in participatory projects, and for analyzin…
Hungry in Japan
In addition to other forms of precarity, food insecurity-citizens not having access to nutritious food-is an issue of growing concern in contemporary Japan. This article explores societal responses and documents a strong growth of volunteerism in the form of food banks andkodomo shokudō(children's cafeterias) that offer cheap or free meals to children in need. Both types of programs have become more common since the mid-2000s and are filling a vo…
Science by the People
Science by the People
Citizen science-research involving nonprofessionals in the research process-has attracted both strong enthusiasts and detractors. Many environmental professionals, activists, and scholars consider citizen science part of their toolkit for addressing environmental challenges. Critics, however, contend that it represents a corporate takeover of scientific priorities. In this timely book, two sociologists move beyond this binary debate by analyzing …
Science by the People
Tsukemono (Japanese pickles) and Their Traditional Vegetables
A festival for tsukemono, Japanese pickles, is held every year in August at a shrine at Kayatsu Shrine. Priests, people from the industry, and regular participants offer prayers and then make a procession to Kōbutsuden (tsukemono pavilion), a place dedicated to tsukemono. There, participants make tsukemono, putting salt and vegetables that have been ritualistically cleansed into the ceramic pots to marinate. After several months, the resulting ts…
Pickles and agrobiodiversity
When citizen science is public relations
Amid rising interest in participatory research, some industries have recently begun to practice public relations citizen science (PRCS). Unlike citizen science and crowdsourcing projects that generate raw materials for product development, PRCS benefits capitalist firms primarily by improving their public image and deflecting accusations of causing harm. Three cases illustrate how PRCS works: (1) a growing assortment of citizen science projects a…
Citizen science and social movements
Agrifood related social controversies tend to involve scientific issues and advocacy groups increasingly turn to citizen science (CS), participatory data taking by regular people, to produce health and environmental data. A common assumption is that CS's value lies in the data produced, and its volume and quality decide its persuasive power. This article describes participatory monitoring of genetically engineered rapeseed (canola) in Japan to su…
Ethics and Aesthetics of Alternative Proteins in Japan
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