TAKESHI MATSUSHIMA

Last Updated :2026/06/04

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
Web Site
https://taihi.org
E-mail
mattakhiroshima-u.ac.jp

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2024/04/01, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
  • 2022/10/01, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Visiting Associate Professor
  • 2020/04/01, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
  • 2015/10/01, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Associate Professor
  • 2014/04/01, National Museum of Ethnology, Visiting Researcher
  • 2010/04/01, Kyoto University, Institute for Research in Humanities, Researcher
  • 2009/04/01, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Researcher

Educational Backgrounds

  • Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Japan, 2000/04, 2009/03

Academic Degrees

  • Master's degree/Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
  • Ph.D./Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University

In Charge of Primary Major Programs

  • Socio-Cultural Studies

Research Fields

  • Humanities;Cultural anthropology;Cultural anthropology

Research Keywords

  • Ecological turn, Care, Zomia, Mental Health, Italy, Franco Basaglia, Territorio, Local Bio-Social Sphere, Cultures of fermentation, Cinema, theater and Image

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
    Related URL
  • Japanese Society of Transcultural Psychiatry

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2026, Liberal Arts Education Program1, Intensive, Sake Studies
  2. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Ethnographic fieldwork
  3. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Principles of Communications
  4. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Year, Seminar

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. "I would prefer not to...": logic of able/disable and utilization of life, The Shakai Rinsho Review, 26(3), 48-55, 20190331
  2. Speech that evokes: on anthropological writing, Japanese Journal of Psychopathology, 38(01), 83-90, 20170410
  3. Administering and Taking HITOGUSURI: Interpersonal Communication as a Drug for Psychiatric Treatment in Japan, The 18th International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences World Congress Proceedings, 4, 5874-5878, 201812
  4. Openness to the Other: invisible collaboration between anthropology and psychiatry in Italy, Psyche and Culture, 15(1), 95-97, 201602
  5. From Actor to Performer: Via Negativa of Jerzy Grotowski, Studies on techniques of physical and mental transformation, 4, 58-65, 2015
  6. Environment with 'agio': on ecological turn in Italian psychiatry, Psyche and culture, 13(1), 27-36, 2014
  7. Franco Basaglia and 'Culture': deinstitutionalization and ethnopsychiatry in Italy, Psyche and culture, 7(1), 19-33, 2008

Publications such as books

  1. 2026, Family Potential in Uncertain Times: Mobility, Technology, and Body, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, 2026, 2026, Scholarly Book, Contributor
  2. 2026, Imagining a Society Without States: Anthropological Way of Thinking, Jiuzhou Press, Beijing, 2026, Scholarly Book, Contributor
  3. 2025, Reconsidering Psychiatric and Mental Care: Dialogue, Culture and Human Rights, Tomishobo, Tokyo, 2025, Book(general), Joint work
  4. 2023, Anthropology of Substance: Reality of Body, Nature and Relatedness, Nakanishiya, Kyoto, 2023, Scholarly Book, Contributor
  5. 2022, Root of Art: Liberating Imagination, Delusion, Creation, fabrication, Koyoshobo, Kyoto, 2022, Book(general), Contributor
  6. 2021, Humanities of Umwelt: Inquire into life and creation, Jimbun Shoin, Kyoto, 2021, Scholarly Book, Contributor
  7. 2021, Body & Mind Transformation and Medicine/Expression: Modernity and Tradition, JMA Management Center, 2021, Scholarly Book, Contributor
  8. 2020, Competence 2040: Doing Human in the age of AI, Ohta Publishing Company, 2020, Book(general), Contributor
  9. 2019, Sharing Trauma (Studies on Trauma vol.2), Kyoto University Press, 2019, Scholarly Book, Cocompilation
  10. 2019, Anthropological Way of Thinking, Sekaishisosha, Kyoto, 2019, Book(general), Contributor
  11. 2019, Social Welfare of the World vol.4 South Europe, Jyunposha, 2019, Scholarly Book, Contributor
  12. 2018, Living Traumatic Experiences (Trauma Studies vol.1), Kyoto University Press, 2018, Scholarly Book, Cocompilation
  13. 2018, Lexicon Contemporary Anthropology, Ibunsha, 2018, Scholarly Book, Contributor
  14. 2018, Art of Body & Mind Transformation: Techniques and Traditions, Sangha, 2018, Scholarly Book, Contributor
  15. 2015, Texture of the World: Introduction to Field Philosophy, Nakanishiya, 2015, 04, Scholarly Book, Contributor
  16. 2015, Encountering with Animals I: Interaction in Encounters, Nakanishiya, 2015, 03, Scholarly Book, Contributor
  17. 2014, Psico Nautica (Psychonautica): An Anthropology of Mental Health Care in Italy, Sekaishisosha, Kyoto, 2014, Scholarly Book, Single work
  18. 2014, Shizengaku: the Search for a Coming Aesthetics, Nakanishiya, 2014, 03, Scholarly Book, Contributor
  19. 2013, Anthropology of Embodiment: Cognition, Memory, Language and the Other, Sekaishisosha, 2013, 4, Scholarly Book, Contributor
  20. 2008, Changing Medical Environment, Kyoto University Press, 2008, Scholarly Book, Contributor

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Autonomy of contemporary ie in a more-than-human world, Takeshi MATSUSHIMA, Family Potential in Uncertain Times: Mobility, Technology, and Body, 2023/03/16, Without Invitation, English, National Museum of Ethnology, National Museum of Ethnology
  2. Non ci credo, ma metto la maschera. Un'osservazione antropologica sul jishuku dei giapponesi ai tempi del Covid-19, Lo sguardo dell'antropologia medica sulla pandemia Covid-19: una panoramica globale, 2020/06/18, With Invitation, other, Società italiana di antropologia medica, online
  3. What is the difference between withness-dialogue and aboutness-dialogue?: Towards an ecology of human environment, Encounters in Fieldwork : the Influence of Vincent Crapanzano, 2018/10/14, With Invitation, English, The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan
  4. Administering and taking Hitogusuri: interpersonal communication as a drug for psychiatric treatment in Japan, The 18th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 2018/07/17, Without Invitation, English, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Florianópolis, Brazil
  5. Ecology of Voices: How people deal with auditory hallucinations in Japan and Italy, East Asian Anthropological Association Meeting, 2016/10/15, Without Invitation, English, East Asian Anthropological Association, Sapporo
  6. On Affect in Community Mental Health Care in Italy, The Skill of Feeling with the World, 2016/01/24, Without Invitation, English, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
  7. The Role of Social Cooperatives in Mental Health Service in Italy, 2015/03/07, Without Invitation, English, Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto
  8. Dementia as Culture: From the Italian Experiment, Dementia and the Changing World, 2007/08/25, Without Invitation, English, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies/The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Osaka International Convention Center, Osaka
  9. Dentro o fuori, oppure fuori di fuori, ecco la questione, Symposium organized by Mental Health Department of Umbria, "Salute mentale, Antropologia e Teatro", 2005/12/13, Without Invitation, other, Mental Health Department of Umbria, Perugia

Social Activities

History as Committee Members

  1. PSYCHE&CULTURE Editorial Board Editor, 2017/11, 2025/03

Other Social Contributions

  1. TAIHI Seminar, Anthropology of Migration and Politics of Care, The Anthropological Institute of Hiroshima, 2023/03/18, Hiroshima University, Planner, Lecture, Scientific organization