Koki Seki

Last Updated :2024/05/07

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
Web Site
http://kokiseki.wordpress.com/
E-mail
sekihiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
My research deals with various aspects of contemporary globalization and develpment through cultural anthropological approach, particulalry focusing on the Philippines as a field. Current researches are on social policy and welfare state as a modern institution of governmentality, and how these influence people's mode of life and its transformation. Specific topics are: urben poverty, land tenure security and social housing projects in the slum community, natural resource management, and transnational migration.

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D., Rikkyo University
  • Master of Arts, University of the Philippines

Educational Activity

  • [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Integrated Arts and Sciences : Department of Integrated Global Studies : Integrated Global Studies
  • [Master's Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Joint International Master's Programme in Sustainable Development (Hiroshima University - University of Graz)
  • [Master's Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : International Peace and Co-existence Program
  • [Master's Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Integrated Arts and Human Sciences Program
  • [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : International Peace and Co-existence Program
  • [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Integrated Arts and Human Sciences Program

Research Fields

  • Humanities;Cultural anthropology;Cultural anthropology
  • Humanities;Philosophy;Area studies

Research Keywords

  • Anthropology of Social Policy and Development
  • Anthropology of Civil Society and Citizenship
  • Ethnography of Welfare and Security
  • risk, uncertainty, and precarity
  • Post-neoliberalism and "the Social"
  • Globalization and Migration
  • Governmentality and Subjectivity
  • The Philippines

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • Japanese Society for Cultural Anthropology
  • Japanese Society for Southeast Asian Studies

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Japanese Experience of Human Development-Culture, Education, and Health
  2. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Japanese Experience of Human Development-Culture, Education, and Health[On-Demand]
  3. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Tourism Studies
  4. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Year, Graduation Thesis
  5. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Humanities and Social Sciences and Society(English Class) Students enrolled before AY 2023
  6. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Humanities and Social Sciences and Society(English Class) Students enrolling in AY 2024 or later
  7. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Academic Year, Special Study(April 2024 Master's Students)
  8. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Academic Year, Special Study(October 2024 Master's Students)
  9. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Academic Year, Special Study(April 2024 Doctoral Students)
  10. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Academic Year, Special Study(October 2024 Doctoral Students)　

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. ★, Seki, K. Capitalizing on Desire: Reconfiguring "the Social' and the Government of Poverty in the Philippines, DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, 46(6): 1253-1276, 2015
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  2. Seki, K. Identity of Migrant Children and Representation of "Family": The Case of Filipino 1.5-Generation Immigrants in the United States, Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 78(3):367-398, 2013., Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology
  3. ★, Difference and Alliance in Transnational Social Fields: The Pendular Identity of the Filipino Middle Class, Philippine Studies, 60(2), 187-222, 20120101
  4. Green Neoliberalism, Ecogovernmentality, and Emergent Community: A Case of Coastal Resource Management in Palawan, the Philippines, Philippine Studies, 57(4), 901-36, 20090101
  5. ★, Green Neoliberalism, Agency, and Cummunity: A Case of Coastal Resource Management in the Philippines, Cultural Anthropology, Vol.73(4): 477-498, 2009, 20090301
  6. Subject, Agency, and Identity in the Lowland Philippines: Focusing on the Concept of "Dungan" as a Folk Notion of Power, SHI'EN, 64(2), 13-38, 20030401
  7. Anthropological Study on the Development of Livelihood Strategy and Identity Construction in the Island Southeast Asia--Focusing on the Folk Notions of Power in the Visayas, Philipines--, Ph.D. Dissertation (Rikkyo University), 1-242, 20040401
  8. The Notion on Power, Self, and Identity among the Visayan Migrants of the Philippines, The Journal of Social and Cultural Studies on Asia, 105-121, 20030401
  9. Fiesta, Patron Saint, and the Concept of Gahum: A Preliminary Study on the Folk Notion of Power among Cebuano Migrant Fisherfolk, Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society, 30(1/2), 111-137, 20020401
  10. Maria Cacao and Golden Boat: the Legend and Image of the Homeland among the Visayan Migrants, Philippines, SHI’EN, 62(2), 6-29, 20020401
  11. Rethinking Maria Cacao: Legend-making in the Visayan Context, Philippine Studies, 49(4), 560-583, 20010401
  12. Everyday Politics over Socio-Cultural Resources in the Philippine Frontier--A Note for Understanding Dynamics of a Migrant Community--, YAKARA:Studies in Ethnology, 31, 1-17, 19990401
  13. A Study on social relationships supporting the inter-islands migration in the Philippines: focusing on the life histories of the Cebuano fishers, SHI’EN, 59(1), 42-71, 19981001
  14. A Study on the Migrant Fisherfolk in the Visayas, Philippines, The Japanese Journal of Ethnology, 62(3), 294-314, 19970401

Publications such as books

  1. 2022, City, Environment, and Transnationalism in the Philippines: Reconceptualizing "the Social" from the Global South, Routledge, 2022, 6, Scholarly Book, Single work, English, Seki, Koki, 978-1-032-12382-0, 245, 245
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  2. 2021/03/31, "Emerging sociality and urban governmentality in the post-authoritarian Philippines: A case of gentrification and slum relocation in Metro Manila", in Seki et al. eds. Anthropology of Globalization and Connectedness, pp103-131., 2021/03/31, Scholarly Book, Single work, 日, Seki, Koki, 978-4-909544-19-3
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  3. 2020/07/20, Seki, K. ed. 2020 Ethnographies of Development and Globalization in the Philippines: Emergent Socialities and the Governing of Precarity, Oxon and New York, Routledge, Scholarly Book, Compilation, English, 9780367480745, 206
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  4. 2020/07/20, Seki, K. 2020 "Introduction: emergent sociality, or what comes after 'the social'? " In K. Seki ed. Ethnographies of Development and Globalization in the Philippines: Emergent Socialities and the Governing of Precarity, pp1-16. Oxon and New York, Routledge., Scholarly Book, Compilation, English, 9780367480745
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  5. 2020/07/20, Seki, K. 2020 "Post-authoritarian sociality and urban governmentality: a socialized housing projects in the Philippines", in K. Seki ed. Ethnographies of Development and Globalization in the Philippines: Emergent Sociality and the Governing of Precarity, pp. 17-42, Oxon and New York: Routledge, Scholarly Book, Compilation, English, 9780367480745
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  6. Seki, K. 2020 Book Review, Passionate revolutions: The media and the rise and fall of the Marcos regime By Talitha Espiritu Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Volume 51 - Issue 1-2 p307-309, Cambridge University Press, Single work, English
  7. 2019, "Cebuano", Encyclopedia of Southeast Asian Culture, 2019, Dictionary/Encyclopedia, Joint work, 日本語, 794, 149
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  8. 2017, An Anthropology of the "Social": Globalizaiton, Development, and Connectedness in the Philippines, Scholarly Book, Single work, 日本語, 9784750346021, 336
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  9. 2016/20/16, Seki, Koki 2016 People and Rural Society in the Philippines: Focusing on the Interactions of Institution and Practices of Resource Use, in "The 64 Chapters about the Contemporary Philippines", Akashi-Shoten, 2016, 2016, Scholarly Book, Joint work, 日本語, Koki Seki, 978-4-7503-4456-0, 400, 35-39
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  10. Seki, K. “Identity Construction of Migrant Children and Representation of the Family: The 1.5-Generation Filipino Youth in California, USA” in I. Nagasaka and A. Fresnoza-Flot (eds.) Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families: Migrant Children with Similar Roots in Different Routes. 2015, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.151-178., Scholarly Book, Joint work
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  11. The Filipino Identity and its “Performativity”, “Fluidity”, and “Ambivalence”, Sabangan vol.1. 34-37, (Philippine Women's University, 2015), Others, Single work
  12. Seki, K. 2014. Crafting Livelihood in the Era of Neoliberal Environmentality, in Eder, James and Oscar Evangelista eds., Palawan and Its Global Connections, pp.161-194, Ateneo de Manila University Press., Scholarly Book, Joint work
  13. Seki, K. 2014. After “closing of the frontier”: Mobility and government in Visayan fishing communities in the twentieth century, in Zayas, Kawada, de la Pena (eds.), Visayas and Beyond: Continuing Studies on Subsistence and Belief in the Islands, pp111-132, Center for International Studies publications, University of the Philippines, Diliman., Scholarly Book, Joint work
  14. Seki, K., “Women Living under the Hollowed-out State: Cases of Feminization of International Migration and Conditional Cash Transfer in the Philippines”, Fukuhara & Yoshimura eds., Women in Contemporary Asia-Living in the Globalizing Societies, pp235-252, 2014, (in Japanese), Scholarly Book, Joint work
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  15. Koki Seki, Migration, Power, and Identity in the Philippine Islands Society - An Ethnography of Maritime Societies, 2007, Kyoto: Sekaishisosha. 364P., Scholarly Book, Single work
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  16. Seki, K. “ Maritime Migration in the Visayas: A Case Study of the Dalaguetenon Fisherfolk, Cebu” in G.W. Bautista and H. Umehara, eds., Communities at the Margins : Reflections on Social, Economic and Environmental Change in the Philippines, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila Univ. Press, pp.193-221, 2004., Scholarly Book, Joint work
  17. Seki, K. “Social Change and Migration: a Case from Palawan,” in Iwao Ushijima and Cynthia N. Zayas (eds.), Bisayan knowledge, Movement, and Identity, Quezon City: University of the Philippine Press, pp. 271-294, 2000., Scholarly Book, Joint work

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Cities in the Anthropocene: Beyond the urbanization as citizenship project, Seki, Koki, the 5th Philippine Studies Conference in Japan, 2022/11/26, Without Invitation, English, Tokyo University
  2. Emergent Socialities and the Governing of Precarity in the Contemporary Philippines, Koki Seki, Seminar Series on Southeast Asia, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, 2020/10/16, With Invitation, English, Singapore
  3. Post-Authoritarian Sociality and Urban Governmentality: Slum Eviction and Socialized Hosing Project in the Philippines, Seki, Koki, 118th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, 2019/11/23, Without Invitation, English, American Anthropological Association, Vancouver
  4. Urban Transformation and Emerging Sociality: The People’s Plan for the ISFs in Metro Manila, Seki, Koki, the 4th Philippine Studies Conference in Japan, 2018/11/18, Without Invitation, English, Hiroshima University, Japan, This presetnation will delineate distinctive features of urban governance and resulting transformation in today’s Metro Manila, Philippines. Also, it poses a question that should be asked for an understanding of the contemporary urban transformations and emerging sociality in the Global South.
  5. Koki Seki, Governing the Risks and Precariousness under the Contemporary Reconfiguration of “the Social”: the Ethnographies of Vulnerability and Resilience in the Philippines”, The 10th International Conference on Philippine Studies, July 6-8, 2016, Dumaguete City, Philippines., Without Invitation, English
  6. Deploying “the Social” without Welfare State: Complexity and Contradiction Experienced in the Philippines, Seki, Koki, the 114th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, 2015/11/18, Without Invitation, English, American Anthropological Association, Denver, Colorado, USA.
  7. Reconfiguration of “the Social” and the Government of Poverty in the Philippines: A Case of Conditional Cash Transfer in Slum Community of Manila, paper presented at the 113th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, Dec 3-7, 2014, Washington D.C., USA., Seki, Koki, Without Invitation, English
  8. "Neoliberal Poverty Alleviation, Moral Discourse, and Mutation of “the Social”: A Case of a Slum Community in the Philippines, IUAES 2014, May 15-18, 2014, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan., Without Invitation, English
  9. Citizenship Project and Contested Notion of “Help”: Dilemma and Unintended Outcomes of Neoliberal Social Policy in the Philippines, the 3rd Philippine Studies Conference in Japan (PSCJ), Feb. 28 – March 1, 2014, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan., Without Invitation, English
  10. Capitalizing on the Desire: The Government of Poverty under the Neoliberal Social Policy in the Philippines, the 112th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, November 20-24, 2013, Chicago, USA., Without Invitation, English
  11. The Government of Urban Poverty and Neoliberal Spcial Policy: A Case of Conditional Cash Transfer in the Philippines, The 17th World Congress of the IUAES, the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, in University of Manchester, 5th -10th August 2013., Without Invitation, English
  12. Inclusion and Non-inclusion under the Government of Urban Poverty: A Case Study of Conditional Cash Transfer (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program) under the Aquino Government, 9th International Conference on Philippine Studies, Oct 28 to 30, 2012, Michigan State University, Without Invitation, English
  13. Difference and Identity in the Transnational Social Field: A Case of the Filipino 1.5 Generation Children in the United States, Third International Conference on Geographies of Children, Young People and Families, National University of Singapore, 11th -13th of July, 2012, Without Invitation, English
  14. Difference and Alliance in Transnational Social Fields: Pendulum Identity of the Filipino Middle Class, the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Perth, University of Western Australia, July 5 to 8, 2011, Without Invitation, English
  15. After the “Closing of the Frontier”: Governmentality and Creation of Eco-rational Subjects, The Second Philippine Studies Conference in Japan (PSCJ 2010), International Congress Center Epochal Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Nov. 13 to 14, 2010., Without Invitation, English
  16. ”The Accidental Scholar as Activist: From Ecocolonialism to Effective Transnational Alliances in Palawan’s Environmental Movement” (Poster Presentation at Society for Applied Anthropology, 69th Annual Meeting, March 17-21, 2009, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Co-authored with Rebecca L. Austin, Noah Theriault, Dante Dalabajan, Dario Novellino, Wolfram Dressler, Michael Fabinyi, Melanie Hughes McDermott, and Nicole Revel)., Without Invitation, English
  17. ”Coastal Resource Management, Emergent Community, and Alternative Public Sphere: A Case of Palawan, Philippines″, （presented at 8th International Conference of Philippine Studies, 23-25July 2008, Philippine Social Science Center, Metro Manila, Philippines）, Without Invitation, English
  18. “Maritime Migration in the Visayas：A Case Study of the Fisherfolk from Dalaguete，Cebu．（presentation at 6th International Conference of Philippine Studies, October 11 to 14, 2000, Quezon City, Philippines）, Without Invitation, English

Awards

  1. The 24th Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Award

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. KAKENHI, Governmentality, uncertainty, and emerging public sphere under the Corona pandemic in the global south, 2022, 2024
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  2. KAKENHI, A new approch to civil society from the global south: ethnographic perspective on vernacular socialities, 2019, 2021
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  3. KAKENHI, Reconfiguration of "the Social" and Government of Risk: An Ethnography of Vulnerability and Resilience in the Philippines, 2015, 2018
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  4. KAKENHI, 2012, 2014
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  5. KAKENHI, 2012, 2014
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  6. KAKENHI, Resource Management and Community in the Age of Neoliberalism, 2009, 2011
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  7. KAKENHI, A Comparative Study on Adaptive Processes of Filipino 1. 5 Generation Children., 2009, 2011
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  8. KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid Research Project on Differentiation and its Theories The Alternative Path to Peace and Cooperation, 2008, 2010
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  9. KAKENHI, Socio-Economic Change and Trend of Social Strafication : Emerging Civil-Society and Cooperativity, 2007, 2009
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  10. KAKENHI, Cultural Analysis on the Emergent Middle-class Identity in Globalizing Southeast Asia, 2006, 2008
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  11. KAKENHI, Philippine Local Society and Institutions in the Era of Globalization, 2004, 2006
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  12. KAKENHI, 2003, 2005
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  13. KAKENHI(Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results), 2017, 2017
  14. KAKENHI(Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)), 2019, 2021

Social Activities

History as Committee Members

  1. Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies, a councilor, 2023/01, 2024/12, Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies