M Ishii
Biographic Data
| ID | 7685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Ishii |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ishii |
| SIGNATURE | ISHII M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyoto University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2794-9067 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives al…
Delayed sleep-wake rhythm is associated with cognitive dysfunction, social dysfunction, and deteriorated quality of life in patients with major depressive disorder
Our study's results suggested that the delayed sleep-wake phase is associated with cognitive dysfunction, social dysfunction, and deteriorated quality of life in patients with MDD. Clinicians should pay attention to the sleep-wake rhythm in patients with MDD in clinical settings
Implementation of a shared decision-making training program for clinicians based on the major depressive disorder guidelines in Japan: A multi-center cluster randomized trial
[https://www.umin.ac.jp/], identifier [UMIN000034397]
Living in the forest as a pluriverse: Nature conservation and indigeneity in India's Western Ghats
This study examines the multi-tiered manifestation of the natural environment and social-ecological milieu of people living in a tiger reserve, located in the Uttara Kannada district in the Indian state of Karnataka. The Kali Tiger Reserve is in the northwestern part of the Western Ghats, which is a designated biodiversity hotspot and home to wildlife such as the Bengal tiger and the Indian elephant. After the forest was designated as a tiger res…
Improving Employment Through Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Case Series of Patients With Treatment-Refractory Depression
Patients with treatment-refractory depression (TRD) have significantly great losses in work productivity and employment. Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is considered an approach for the treatment of TRD. However, the effectiveness of IPT in patients with TRD remains unclear. In this study, we report cases of TRD patients who underwent IPT after a detailed evaluation, along with their employment status. Of 112 patients who experienced 1-week ex…
New ontologies? Reflections on some recent ‘turns’ in STS, anthropology and philosophy
This paper discusses the recent emergence of ontological approaches in science and technology studies (STS), anthropology and philosophy. Although it is common to hear of a turn, or turn, to ontology, more than one line of intellectual development is at stake. In reality, we are witness to a plural set of partly overlapping, partly divergent, turns
Caring for Divine Infrastructures: Nature and Spirits in a Special Economic Zone in India
This paper investigates spirit (būta) worship in a special economic zone (SEZ) in India by considering practices of care around specific constellations of nature and infrastructure: fluid, contingent assemblages of the 'natural' and 'artificial' environments. Occult phenomena in modern settings have often been interpreted as metaphorical critiques of modernity by neophyte proletarians. In the SEZ, however, it is not workers but executives who und…
An investigation of factors related to the use of respite care services for children with severe motor and intellectual disabilities (SMID) living at home in Japan
Limited time away from the child is cited as the main factor that increases the burden for the primary caregiver of severely disabled children. The aim of this study was to quantitatively elucidate the factors related to the desire to use social services and the actual use of respite care services by the primary caregivers of severely disabled children in Japan. In this study, we investigated the use of respite care services in accordance with th…
Attuning to the webs ofen: Ontography, Japanese spirit worlds, and the “tact” of Minakata Kumagusu
An experiment in ethnographic theory, this article aims to finds new ways of getting Japanese spirit worlds into view. In the attempt to find ways of repopulating spirit worlds with more than beliefs, socioeconomic realities, and politics, the broader "ontographic" issue is how to facilitate engagement with spirits in a way that is not overdetermined by the assumption that such entities do not really exist. After examining how Japanese folklore s…
Wild Sacredness and the Poiesis of Transactional Networks Relational Divinity and Spirit Possession in the 'Būta' Ritual of South India
Traces of reflexive imagination: Matriliny, modern law, and spirit worship in South India
Matriliny in South India is often considered as having declined in the course of modernization. Recent studies, however, highlight the social construction of matriliny by modern legal discourse. As an alternative to these perspectives, this article presents a fresh viewpoint from which to analyze the reflexive relationship between modern law and local practice. In this article, I investigate the modern judicature's evolving interpretation and (re…
Playing with perspectives: Spirit possession, mimesis, and permeability in thebuutaritual inSouthIndia
The aim of this study is to investigate spirit possession through the lenses of mimesis, permeability, and perspectivity. Recent studies have explored the significance of perspective exchange as reciprocal subjectification. At the same time, the importance of reflexive self-awareness amid perspective exchange has been noted. Linking studies on perspective exchange with those on spirit possession, this article tries to show an alternative understa…
Acting with things: Self-poiesis, actuality, and contingency in the formation of divine worlds
The aim of this study is to investigate how divine worlds can be created, vitalized, and lived by people. Focusing not on cognition and operating through things but on bodily action with things, this paper examines the actuality of these actions, which occur prior to the cognitive articulation of the event and create novel experiences of the world. It reconsiders Alfred Gell's theory of idolatry through the ideas of Bin Kimura and Hideo Kawamoto.…
From Wombs to Farmland: The Transformation of Suman Shrines in Southern Ghana
In this article I attempt to analyze the transformation of savanna-originated spirit or suman shrines in a cocoa-producing migrant society in the Eastern Region of the Republic of Ghana. At the beginning of the twentieth century, various suman shrines were established as places where people were accused of witchcraft or exorcized in Akan societies. Earlier studies have called these 'anti-witchcraft shrines' and interpreted this phenomenon as bein…
Practical Logic of Land Inheritance
In this article I have tried to analyze indigenous logic and practices of land inheritance in Akyem Abuakwa, one of the most intensive cocoa producing areas in the Republic of Ghana. Most of literatures on kinship and political economy in African societies have insisted on the transformation of a society from a lineage-based kinship and inheritance system into a new order based on filiation and elementary family due to modernization and penetrati…
Influencing medication adherence among women with Aids
This study examined the effects of a ten-session cognitive-behavioural stress management/expressive supportive therapy (CBSM+) intervention on adherence to antiretroviral medication. Although the intervention was not designed to influence adherence, it was theorized that improved coping and social support could enhance adherence. Women with AIDS (N = 174) in Miami, New York and New Jersey, USA, were randomized to a group CBSM+ intervention or ind…
Japans Landwirtschaft auf dem Weg in den Nebenerwerb. Eine sozialgeographische Analyse
Acting with things: Self-poiesis, actuality, and contingency in the formation of divine worlds
The aim of this study is to investigate how divine worlds can be created, vitalized, and lived by people. Focusing not on cognition and operating through things but on bodily action with things, this paper examines the actuality of these actions, which occur prior to the cognitive articulation of the event and create novel experiences of the world. It reconsiders Alfred Gell's theory of idolatry through the ideas of Bin Kimura and Hideo Kawamoto.…
A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives al…
Caring for Divine Infrastructures: Nature and Spirits in a Special Economic Zone in India
This paper investigates spirit (būta) worship in a special economic zone (SEZ) in India by considering practices of care around specific constellations of nature and infrastructure: fluid, contingent assemblages of the 'natural' and 'artificial' environments. Occult phenomena in modern settings have often been interpreted as metaphorical critiques of modernity by neophyte proletarians. In the SEZ, however, it is not workers but executives who und…
Attuning to the webs ofen: Ontography, Japanese spirit worlds, and the “tact” of Minakata Kumagusu
An experiment in ethnographic theory, this article aims to finds new ways of getting Japanese spirit worlds into view. In the attempt to find ways of repopulating spirit worlds with more than beliefs, socioeconomic realities, and politics, the broader "ontographic" issue is how to facilitate engagement with spirits in a way that is not overdetermined by the assumption that such entities do not really exist. After examining how Japanese folklore s…
Playing with perspectives: Spirit possession, mimesis, and permeability in thebuutaritual inSouthIndia
The aim of this study is to investigate spirit possession through the lenses of mimesis, permeability, and perspectivity. Recent studies have explored the significance of perspective exchange as reciprocal subjectification. At the same time, the importance of reflexive self-awareness amid perspective exchange has been noted. Linking studies on perspective exchange with those on spirit possession, this article tries to show an alternative understa…
Wild Sacredness and the Poiesis of Transactional Networks Relational Divinity and Spirit Possession in the 'Būta' Ritual of South India
From Wombs to Farmland: The Transformation of Suman Shrines in Southern Ghana
In this article I attempt to analyze the transformation of savanna-originated spirit or suman shrines in a cocoa-producing migrant society in the Eastern Region of the Republic of Ghana. At the beginning of the twentieth century, various suman shrines were established as places where people were accused of witchcraft or exorcized in Akan societies. Earlier studies have called these 'anti-witchcraft shrines' and interpreted this phenomenon as bein…
Traces of reflexive imagination: Matriliny, modern law, and spirit worship in South India
Matriliny in South India is often considered as having declined in the course of modernization. Recent studies, however, highlight the social construction of matriliny by modern legal discourse. As an alternative to these perspectives, this article presents a fresh viewpoint from which to analyze the reflexive relationship between modern law and local practice. In this article, I investigate the modern judicature's evolving interpretation and (re…
Japans Landwirtschaft auf dem Weg in den Nebenerwerb. Eine sozialgeographische Analyse
Influencing medication adherence among women with Aids
This study examined the effects of a ten-session cognitive-behavioural stress management/expressive supportive therapy (CBSM+) intervention on adherence to antiretroviral medication. Although the intervention was not designed to influence adherence, it was theorized that improved coping and social support could enhance adherence. Women with AIDS (N = 174) in Miami, New York and New Jersey, USA, were randomized to a group CBSM+ intervention or ind…
Practical Logic of Land Inheritance
In this article I have tried to analyze indigenous logic and practices of land inheritance in Akyem Abuakwa, one of the most intensive cocoa producing areas in the Republic of Ghana. Most of literatures on kinship and political economy in African societies have insisted on the transformation of a society from a lineage-based kinship and inheritance system into a new order based on filiation and elementary family due to modernization and penetrati…
From Wombs to Farmland: The Transformation of Suman Shrines in Southern Ghana
In this article I attempt to analyze the transformation of savanna-originated spirit or suman shrines in a cocoa-producing migrant society in the Eastern Region of the Republic of Ghana. At the beginning of the twentieth century, various suman shrines were established as places where people were accused of witchcraft or exorcized in Akan societies. Earlier studies have called these 'anti-witchcraft shrines' and interpreted this phenomenon as bein…
Acting with things: Self-poiesis, actuality, and contingency in the formation of divine worlds
The aim of this study is to investigate how divine worlds can be created, vitalized, and lived by people. Focusing not on cognition and operating through things but on bodily action with things, this paper examines the actuality of these actions, which occur prior to the cognitive articulation of the event and create novel experiences of the world. It reconsiders Alfred Gell's theory of idolatry through the ideas of Bin Kimura and Hideo Kawamoto.…
Playing with perspectives: Spirit possession, mimesis, and permeability in thebuutaritual inSouthIndia
The aim of this study is to investigate spirit possession through the lenses of mimesis, permeability, and perspectivity. Recent studies have explored the significance of perspective exchange as reciprocal subjectification. At the same time, the importance of reflexive self-awareness amid perspective exchange has been noted. Linking studies on perspective exchange with those on spirit possession, this article tries to show an alternative understa…
Traces of reflexive imagination: Matriliny, modern law, and spirit worship in South India
Matriliny in South India is often considered as having declined in the course of modernization. Recent studies, however, highlight the social construction of matriliny by modern legal discourse. As an alternative to these perspectives, this article presents a fresh viewpoint from which to analyze the reflexive relationship between modern law and local practice. In this article, I investigate the modern judicature's evolving interpretation and (re…
Wild Sacredness and the Poiesis of Transactional Networks Relational Divinity and Spirit Possession in the 'Būta' Ritual of South India
An investigation of factors related to the use of respite care services for children with severe motor and intellectual disabilities (SMID) living at home in Japan
Limited time away from the child is cited as the main factor that increases the burden for the primary caregiver of severely disabled children. The aim of this study was to quantitatively elucidate the factors related to the desire to use social services and the actual use of respite care services by the primary caregivers of severely disabled children in Japan. In this study, we investigated the use of respite care services in accordance with th…
Attuning to the webs ofen: Ontography, Japanese spirit worlds, and the “tact” of Minakata Kumagusu
An experiment in ethnographic theory, this article aims to finds new ways of getting Japanese spirit worlds into view. In the attempt to find ways of repopulating spirit worlds with more than beliefs, socioeconomic realities, and politics, the broader "ontographic" issue is how to facilitate engagement with spirits in a way that is not overdetermined by the assumption that such entities do not really exist. After examining how Japanese folklore s…
New ontologies? Reflections on some recent ‘turns’ in STS, anthropology and philosophy
This paper discusses the recent emergence of ontological approaches in science and technology studies (STS), anthropology and philosophy. Although it is common to hear of a turn, or turn, to ontology, more than one line of intellectual development is at stake. In reality, we are witness to a plural set of partly overlapping, partly divergent, turns
Caring for Divine Infrastructures: Nature and Spirits in a Special Economic Zone in India
This paper investigates spirit (būta) worship in a special economic zone (SEZ) in India by considering practices of care around specific constellations of nature and infrastructure: fluid, contingent assemblages of the 'natural' and 'artificial' environments. Occult phenomena in modern settings have often been interpreted as metaphorical critiques of modernity by neophyte proletarians. In the SEZ, however, it is not workers but executives who und…
Improving Employment Through Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Case Series of Patients With Treatment-Refractory Depression
Patients with treatment-refractory depression (TRD) have significantly great losses in work productivity and employment. Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is considered an approach for the treatment of TRD. However, the effectiveness of IPT in patients with TRD remains unclear. In this study, we report cases of TRD patients who underwent IPT after a detailed evaluation, along with their employment status. Of 112 patients who experienced 1-week ex…
Delayed sleep-wake rhythm is associated with cognitive dysfunction, social dysfunction, and deteriorated quality of life in patients with major depressive disorder
Our study's results suggested that the delayed sleep-wake phase is associated with cognitive dysfunction, social dysfunction, and deteriorated quality of life in patients with MDD. Clinicians should pay attention to the sleep-wake rhythm in patients with MDD in clinical settings
Implementation of a shared decision-making training program for clinicians based on the major depressive disorder guidelines in Japan: A multi-center cluster randomized trial
[https://www.umin.ac.jp/], identifier [UMIN000034397]
Living in the forest as a pluriverse: Nature conservation and indigeneity in India's Western Ghats
This study examines the multi-tiered manifestation of the natural environment and social-ecological milieu of people living in a tiger reserve, located in the Uttara Kannada district in the Indian state of Karnataka. The Kali Tiger Reserve is in the northwestern part of the Western Ghats, which is a designated biodiversity hotspot and home to wildlife such as the Bengal tiger and the Indian elephant. After the forest was designated as a tiger res…
A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives al…
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