Makoto Nishi

Biographic Data

ID669183
NAMEMakoto Nishi
GIVEN NAMESMakoto
FAMILY NAMENishi
SIGNATURENISHI M
AFFILIATIONSKyoto University
ORCID0000-0002-7801-9794
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Curing Lives: Surviving the HIV Epidemic in Ethiopia

    Open AccessMakoto NishiBOOKCuring Lives2023

  • Care during ART scale-up: Surviving the HIV epidemic in Ethiopia

    Open AccessMakoto NishiARTICLEBioSocieties2023

    Over the last decades, there has been a worldwide rise of new technologies for controlling the HIV epidemic by expanding antiretroviral medicines. This article examines how the pharmaceutical-driven model of public health, which emerged as a byproduct of antiretroviral treatment (ART) scale-up in Ethiopia, interplayed with local forms of actions, engagements, and voices through which suffering inflicted by the epidemic was cared for. Through the …

  • Curing Lives: Surviving the HIV Epidemic in Ethiopia

    Makoto NishiBOOKCuring Lives2023

  • Report of the International Workshop on Medical Zairaichi , A Medical-Local Knowledge on Research Network

    Open AccessYoko Shimpuku, Morie Kaneko et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Studies2021

    本ワークショップの目的は,現代の近代医学的と,知識・資源(癒し,治療,ケア)・技術を内含する地域的な実践の両方を取り入れながら,地域の人々がどのように病気を予防・治療・ケアし,健康を維持しているのかを理解するための学際的・国際的な連携として設立している「医療在来知ネットワーク」を紹介することであった。基調講演者と口頭発表者は,医療在来知についての自らの考察や,エチオピア,タンザニア,ウガンダ,マラウイでの研究について述べた。医療在来知は,人の生物医学要素と動物・環境との相互作用,健康システムと倫理的問題,社会文化的環境など,健康の多面的な側面を含んでいることが議論された。発表と議論によって,いずれの研究においても,人々が身体や健康問題の要因と予防,ケアの様式をどのように認識しているのか,という問いを考慮する重要性が示唆された。これらの知識や資源をもとに,学際的な連携を通して,安全で実現可能で持続可能な健康の選択肢について,バランスのとれた知識を生み出すことができる。また,地域の視点につい…

  • Jishuku , social distancing and care in the time of Covid‐19 in Japan

    Open AccessMakoto NishiARTICLESocial Anthropology2020

  • Humanosphere Potentiality Index: Appraising Existing Indicators from a Long-term Perspective

    Open AccessTakahiro Sato, Mario Lopez et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2016Cited by: 2References: 3

    This research presents the Humanosphere Potentiality Index (HPI), developed to address current global potentiality from a long-term perspective. The HPI presents a different way to envision the current condition of the world, one that is compatible with a strong sustainability paradigm approach and demonstrates the significance of tropical countries for global sustainability. A comparison between HPI and the Human Development Index (HDI) reveals …

  • Political Practices for Empowerment and Redistribution

    Open AccessMakoto NishiARTICLEJournal of African Studies2008

    This paper deals with the activity of a community-based organization (CBO) that has contributed for construction of roads in rural Ethiopia. Many researchers believe that CBOs can effectively promote democratic social relationships at the local level. In this paper, I consider two interrelated issues that concern the political aspects of CBO activity: the relationship of a CBO to the state authority and the relationship between the CBO and the pe…

  • Making and Unmaking of the Nation State and Ethnicity in Modern Ethiopia

    Open AccessMakoto NishiARTICLEJournal of African Studies2003

    Since the end of 19th century, it was politically imperative for Ethiopia to build a modern state with a unified nation. However, after three decades of civil war, Ethiopia was transformed into a “federation of ethnic groups” in an attempt to establish a democratic political framework.Ethnicity in Africa is often understood as something essentially related to the autonomy of peoples and their cultures. Ironically, the new order in Ethiopia gave r…