Ayano Ginoza
Biographic Data
| ID | 781940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayano Ginoza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayano |
| FAMILY NAME | Ginoza |
| SIGNATURE | GINOZA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Ryukyus University Hospital |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-0892-0497 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Everyday Gendered Spaces of Memory, Community, and Resistance in Sakaemachi Market (Okinawa)
This paper explores the role of local food markets in the planning and development of complex and dynamic everyday gendered spaces that contribute to island resilience and sustainable development. Based on the case study of Sakaemachi Market in Okinawa, Japan, the research analyses the market in the context of postwar reconstruction, gendered labor, and the politics of Okinawa, a society built on a village-based communal structure centered on shi…
Slow Ontologies and Letting Be: Insights from Island Academics, Activists, and Artists
Islands, the Anthropocene, and Decolonisation
The Anthropocene is deployed as incontrovertible fact, yet its foundations merit strong critique to challenge how particular voices and locations are absented, silenced, or enrolled in the fallacies that attend this epochal framework. Other placed, grounded, and scale‐sensitive explanations exist for present and future state scenarios, including on islands—often the focus of apocalyptic thinking. Dealing with historical and contemporary struggles…
Archipelagic Feminisms: Critical Interventions into the Gendered Coloniality of Okinawa
R&R at the Intersection of US and Japanese Dual Empire: Okinawan Women and Decolonizing Militarized Heterosexuality
R&R at the Intersection of US and Japanese Dual Empire:Okinawan Women and Decolonizing Militarized Heterosexuality Ayano Ginoza (bio) At the center of Okinawa Island, in Koza, visitors and locals are greeted by a large billboard of a young Asian woman. She is, by any normative standard, "exotic." She is local, yet has blond undulating hair and blue eyes that gaze at the viewer. The bingata kimono, which was traditionally designed for Ryukyu Kingd…
Islands, the Anthropocene, and Decolonisation
The Anthropocene is deployed as incontrovertible fact, yet its foundations merit strong critique to challenge how particular voices and locations are absented, silenced, or enrolled in the fallacies that attend this epochal framework. Other placed, grounded, and scale‐sensitive explanations exist for present and future state scenarios, including on islands—often the focus of apocalyptic thinking. Dealing with historical and contemporary struggles…
R&R at the Intersection of US and Japanese Dual Empire: Okinawan Women and Decolonizing Militarized Heterosexuality
R&R at the Intersection of US and Japanese Dual Empire:Okinawan Women and Decolonizing Militarized Heterosexuality Ayano Ginoza (bio) At the center of Okinawa Island, in Koza, visitors and locals are greeted by a large billboard of a young Asian woman. She is, by any normative standard, "exotic." She is local, yet has blond undulating hair and blue eyes that gaze at the viewer. The bingata kimono, which was traditionally designed for Ryukyu Kingd…
R&R at the Intersection of US and Japanese Dual Empire: Okinawan Women and Decolonizing Militarized Heterosexuality
R&R at the Intersection of US and Japanese Dual Empire:Okinawan Women and Decolonizing Militarized Heterosexuality Ayano Ginoza (bio) At the center of Okinawa Island, in Koza, visitors and locals are greeted by a large billboard of a young Asian woman. She is, by any normative standard, "exotic." She is local, yet has blond undulating hair and blue eyes that gaze at the viewer. The bingata kimono, which was traditionally designed for Ryukyu Kingd…
Archipelagic Feminisms: Critical Interventions into the Gendered Coloniality of Okinawa
Islands, the Anthropocene, and Decolonisation
The Anthropocene is deployed as incontrovertible fact, yet its foundations merit strong critique to challenge how particular voices and locations are absented, silenced, or enrolled in the fallacies that attend this epochal framework. Other placed, grounded, and scale‐sensitive explanations exist for present and future state scenarios, including on islands—often the focus of apocalyptic thinking. Dealing with historical and contemporary struggles…
Slow Ontologies and Letting Be: Insights from Island Academics, Activists, and Artists
Everyday Gendered Spaces of Memory, Community, and Resistance in Sakaemachi Market (Okinawa)
This paper explores the role of local food markets in the planning and development of complex and dynamic everyday gendered spaces that contribute to island resilience and sustainable development. Based on the case study of Sakaemachi Market in Okinawa, Japan, the research analyses the market in the context of postwar reconstruction, gendered labor, and the politics of Okinawa, a society built on a village-based communal structure centered on shi…
Narrative (3 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)