Researcher Profile and Settings

Researcher

• Name

  KAWASHIMA Motohiro

Profile and Settings

• Name

  Kawashima, Motohiro

Website

• URI

  http://www.si.gunma-u.ac.jp/~mkawa/index2.html

Foreign language

• Use in presentation

  English

• Use in publication

  English

Affiliation

• Gunma University, Faculty of Informatics, Professor

Education

• 2004
• 1999
• 1998
• 1988, Waseda University, School of Political Science and Economics

Degree

• PhD in Sociology
• MSc in Social Anthropology
• MA in Sociology of Culture

Association Memberships

• The Society of Socio-Informatics

Research Experience

• 2021, Gunma University, Faculty of Informatics, Professor, Prof lv
• 2016, 2020, National Museum of Ethnology
• 2012, 2021
• 2009
• 2008, 2011, National Museum of Ethnology
• 2008, 2012, Gunma University, Faculty of Social and Information Studies, Department of Information Behavioral Science
• 2007, 2008, Kobe International University, Faculty of Economics
• 2006, 2007
• 2005, 2006
• 1988, 1998

Research Activities

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences, Sociology
• Humanities & social sciences, Philosophy and ethics
• Humanities & social sciences, Cultural anthropology and folklore

Research Interests

• Society
• Culture
• Environmental Ethics

Research Themes

• Sociology, 0135 (Japanese Only)
• Sociology, 0135 (Japanese Only)

Published Papers

• 野生動物の殺生と屠畜の倫理的比較―捕鯨と工場式畜産を事例として, 河島基弘, 07 Feb. 2022, 第24号, 29, 43, Symposium
• Decoding the Whaling Issue Using Media Theories, KAWASHIMA, Motohiro, Mar. 2021, Senri Ethnological Studies, 104, 247, 262, Scientific journal
• The Pilot Whale Hunt and Indigenous Culture of the Faroe Islands: A Comparison with Taiji, Japan, KAWASHIMA, Motohiro, Mar. 2021, Senri Ethnological Studies, 104, 147, 166, Scientific journal
• デンマーク領フェロー諸島の捕鯨文化―和歌山県太地町との比較から, 河島基弘, Jun. 2019, 149, 153-172
• 危機に瀕するデンマーク領フェロー諸島のゴンドウクジラ猟, 河島 基弘, Mar. 2017, 24, 15-31
• Law-Enforcing Vigilantes in the Media Era?: An Investigation of Sea Shepherd's Anti-Whaling Campaign, KAWASHIMA, Motohiro, Aug. 2013, Senri Ethnological Studies, 84, 305, 324, Scientific journal
• 『ザ・コーヴ』は問題作品か？―あるドキュメンタリー映画の手法と内容の考察―, 河島基弘, Mar. 2011, 第18巻, 35-48
• 反捕鯨と文化帝国主義, 河島基弘, Oct. 2010, No.93, 89-98
• 欧米で鯨が特別視される理由の批判的考察, 河島基弘, Mar. 2010, 17 , 1～17
• 反捕鯨と抗議ビジネス―環境保護団体の鯨保護キャンペーンの一側面, 河島基弘, Mar. 2010, 17, 19～35
• Anti-Whaling and Speciesism, 河島基弘, Dec. 2007, 73, 1-14
• オーストラリアの日本観―アジアのよそ者同士の不思議な連帯関係, 河島基弘, Apr. 2007, 276-289
• 英国メディアの伝える日中摩擦, 河島基弘, Apr. 2006, 187-200
• The Imagined Whale: How the Media Created a Sacrosanct Creature, KAWASHIMA, Motohiro, Feb. 2005, The Essex Graduate Journal of Sociology
• The Sacred Leviathan: Why Whales Have Become a Symbol of Nature in the West , KAWASHIMA, Motohiro, Nov. 2004, PhD Thesis (Essex University)
• Is Anti-Whaling a Protest Business?: An Aspect of Environmental Organisations’ “Save the Whales” Campaign’, KAWASHIMA, Motohiro, Feb. 2004, The Essex Graduate Journal of Sociology
• The Anthropological Implications of the Whale and Whaling, KAWASHIMA, Motohiro, Sep. 1999, MSc Dissertation(London School of Economics and Political Science)
• The Transformation of the Image of Japan and the Japanese in Britain: The Comparison of British Newspaper Coverage on the Visits of the Japanese Emperors in 1971 and 1998, KAWASHIMA, Motohiro, Sep. 1998, MA Dissertation(Essex University)

MISC

• 現代の巨大な産業システムを『視界の政治』で考察―隠蔽・隔離と監視に支えられた屠殺場の暗部に迫る」（ティモシー・パチラット著『暴力のエスノグラフィー―産業化された屠殺と視界の政治』の書評）, 河島基弘, 18 Feb. 2023, 3579, 3, 3
• トム・レーガン『動物の権利・人間の不正―道徳哲学入門』の書評, 河島基弘, 16 Dec. 2022, 26, 31, 38

Books etc

• 捕鯨と反捕鯨のあいだに―世界の現場と政治・倫理的問題, Joint work, 2020
• 動物倫理入門, Single translation, 2015
• 捕鯨の文化人類学, Joint work, 2012
• 神聖なる海獣―なぜ鯨が西洋で特別扱いされるのか, Single work, 2011
• イメージの中の日本, Joint work, 2008
• メディア・ナショナリズムのゆくえ, Joint work, 2006

Presentations

• 野生動物の殺生と屠畜の倫理的比較―捕鯨と工場式畜産を事例として―, 河島基弘, 日本倫理学会第72回大会ワークショップ（第1会場　動物倫理の諸問題), 01 Oct. 2021
• NGOs' Anti-Whaling Movement, Motohhiro KAWASHIMA, “Whaling Activities and Issues in the Contemporary World”, National Museum of Ethnology, 01 Dec. 2018
• 格好のニュース素材としてのナショナリズム―2005年の日中摩擦を事例として―, 群馬大学社会情報学部附属社会情報学研究センター主催・社会情報学会後援, 16 Nov. 2015
• 反捕鯨は抗議ビジネスか, 国際シンポジウム「世界の捕鯨文化の過去、現在、そして未来」, 12 Mar. 2011
• 映像に見る20世紀後半の鯨観の変遷―ボードリヤールのハイパーリアリティを援用して, 「捕鯨文化に関する実践人類学的研究」共同研究会, 05 Jun. 2010
• 英国メディアの伝える日中摩擦, 30 Mar. 2006
• The Making of the Imagined Whale: How Whales Have Become a Symbol of Nature in the West, British Sociological Association Annual Conference, 24 Mar. 2004
• Is Anti-Whaling a Protest Business? : An Aspect of Environmental Organisations’ “Save the Whales” Campaign, PhD Doctoral Conference 2003, 10 Jun. 2003
• All Animals Are Equal, But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others: Why Whales Have Become a Symbol of Nature in the West, Graduate Conference 2002, 21 Feb. 2002
• Anthropological Conceptions of the Whale, Inuit Studies Conference, 26 Apr. 2000

Research Projects

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Gunma University, Apr. 2019, Mar. 2023, 19K02068
• Apr. 2016, Mar. 2020
• An Anthropological Study of Whaling Cultures in the Globalizing World:Conflicts between the Succession of Whaling Tradition and Anti-whaling Movement, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), National Museum of Ethnology, Apr. 2015, Mar. 2019, 15H02617
• A Study of the Relationship between Humans and Animals: from the Viewpoint of the Contradiction between Pet Boom and Gourmet Boom, Kawashima Motohiro, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Gunma University, Apr. 2011, Mar. 2016, 23530648
• Apr. 2008, Mar. 2011
• Nov. 2000, Oct. 2001
• Apr. 2000, Mar. 2001