Koki Seki
Last Updated :2019/02/01
- Affiliations, Positions
- Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, ., Professor
- Web Site
- E-mail
- seki
hiroshima-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
Research Fields
- Humanities;Cultural anthropology;Cultural anthropology
- Humanities;Philosophy;Area studies
Research Keywords
- Anthropology of Social Policy and Development
- Ethnography of Welfare State and Social Security
- risk society 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
- The American Anthropological Association
Educational Activity
Course in Charge
- 2018, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Asian Cultures
- 2018, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Asian Societies and Cultures
- 2018, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Seminar on Cultural Dynamics
- 2018, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , First Semester, Seminar on Cultural Dynamics II
- 2018, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , First Semester, Seminar on Cultural Dynamics I
- 2018, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Asian Cultures
- 2018, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Area Studies of Asia
- 2018, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Seminar on Cultural Dynamics II
- 2018, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Seminar on Cultural Dynamics I
- 2018, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Seminar on Cultural Dynamics
Research Activities
Academic Papers
- Seki, K. Capitalizing on Desire: Reconfiguring "the Social' and the Government of Poverty in the Philippines, DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, 46(6): 1253-1276, 2015
- 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
- Difference and Alliance in Transnational Social Fields: The Pendular Identity of the Filipino Middle Class, Philippine Studies, 60(2), 187-222, 20120101
- Green Neoliberalism, Agency, and Cummunity: A Case of Coastal Resource Management in the Philippines, Cultural Anthropology, Vol.73(4): 477-498, 2009, 20090301
- Green Neoliberalism, Ecogovernmentality, and Emergent Community: A Case of Coastal Resource Management in Palawan, the Philippines, Philippine Studies, 57(4), 901-36, 20090101
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Maria Cacao and Golden Boat: the Legend and Image of the Homeland among the Visayan Migrants, Philippines, SHI’EN, 62(2), 6-29, 20020401
- Rethinking Maria Cacao: Legend-making in the Visayan Context, Philippine Studies, 49(4), 560-583, 20010401
- 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
- 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
- A Study on the Migrant Fisherfolk in the Visayas, Philippines, The Japanese Journal of Ethnology, 62(3), 294-314, 19970401
Publications such as books
- 2017, An Anthropology of the "Social": Globalizaiton, Development, and Connectedness in the Philippines, 日本語, 9784750346021, 336
- 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, 日本語, Koki Seki, 978-4-7503-4456-0, 400, 35-39
- 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.
- The Filipino Identity and its “Performativity”, “Fluidity”, and “Ambivalence”, Sabangan vol.1. 34-37, (Philippine Women's University, 2015)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- Koki Seki, Migration, Power, and Identity in the Philippine Islands Society - An Ethnography of Maritime Societies, 2007, Kyoto: Sekaishisosha. 364P.
- 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.
- 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.
Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation
- 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
- 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, American Anthropological Association, Denver, Colorado, USA.
- 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
- "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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ”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
- ”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
- “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
Awards
- The 24th Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Award