YOKO TAGUCHI

Last Updated :2025/06/06

Affiliations, Positions
Hiroshima University, Associate Professor
Web Site
https://sites.google.com/view/yokotaguchi
E-mail
yokothiroshima-u.ac.jp

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2025/04/01, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
  • 2021/04/01, Department of Social System Design, Eikei University of Hiroshima, Associate Professor
  • 2018/04/01, Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Assistant Professor
  • 2016/04/01, Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Junior Fellow

Educational Backgrounds

  • Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Ph.D. Program, 2009/04/01, 2013/03/31
  • Osaka University, Graduate School of Human Sciences, M.A. Program, 2004/04/01, 2006/03/24

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University
  • M.A. in Human Sciences, Osaka University

Research Fields

  • Humanities;Cultural anthropology;Cultural anthropology

Research Keywords

  • cultural anthropology, ethnography, care, domestic work, feminism, relation, hierarchy, personhood, morality, social imaginary, urban environment, translation, South Asian studies

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • Society for Social Studies of Science, 2018/05
  • The American Anthropological Association, 2013/10
  • The Japanese Association for South Asian Studies, 2010/04
  • The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, 2009/06

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Anthropology of the Contemporary World I
  2. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Anthropology of the Contemporary World II
  3. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Peace and Co-existence A
  4. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Basic Cultural Anthropology I
  5. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Contemporary Anthropology I

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. The Extension of Housework: Reconceptualizing Care and Social Relations (in Japanese), Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 88(4), 761-772, 202403
  2. [Book Review] Indo, Mukidashi no Sekai, Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 86(4), 706-708, 202203
  3. Spatial Emotion and Pragmatic Intimacy around Domestic Work in Urban India, FINDAS International Conference Series, 7, 16-25, 202203
  4. Social Movements Around Paid Domestic Work in Urban India: A Global Issue and Moral Imaginaries (in Japanese), MINDAS Series of Working Papers No. 2, 1-20, 202110
  5. Kinship as Fiction: Exploring the Dynamism of Intimate Relationships in South Asia, Contemporary South Asia, 29(1), 1-9, 202103
  6. The Fiction of ‘Fluid Nuclear Units’: Rearticulating Relations through Domestic Work in Mumbai, Contemporary South Asia, 29(1), 50-65, 202103
  7. Movements of Flats and Citizens: Notes on Spatial Politics in Mumbai, Kazuya Nakamizo;Tatsuro Fujikura;Minoru Mio (eds.) The Dynamics of Conflict and Peace in Contemporary South Asia: The State, Democracy and Social Movements. Routledge, 127-140, 202012
  8. [Book Review] Kalindi Vora, Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor, Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 85(3), 547-550, 202012
  9. Current Issues with the Tutorial System for International Students: Towards the Improvement of Dissertation Tutoring (in Japanese), Journal of Global Education and Exchange, Hitotsubashi University, 2, 17-30, 20200930
  10. What is a Tutor?: An Essay on Authorship, Writing Education, and Native Speakerism (in Japanese), Hitotsubashi Bulletin of Social Sciences, 12(12), 69-89, 20200528
  11. Householding Stories: Domestic Work and the Mutuality of Being in Mumbai (in Japanese), Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 84(2), 135-152, 201909
  12. Analogies for Redistribution: Multiple Layers of Biomoral and State Institutions (in Japanese), Akinori Hamada (ed) Becoming Groups: The Anthropological Studies of Multiple Redistribution. Yushokan, 87-112, 201903
  13. Negotiating the Inside/Outside, Generating Gaps: Public Space Seen through Bombay Flats and Civic Activism (in Japanese), Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 82(2), 163-181, 201709
  14. [Book Review] Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Kunitachi Anthropology Research, 11, 11-22, 201706
  15. An Interview with Marisol de la Cadena, NatureCulture, 201705
  16. Corruption, Anti-corruption, and “Personal Values”: Citizen Movements Connecting “Two Selves” in Mumbai, India (in Japanese), Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 81(3), 413-430, 201612
  17. The Lateral Development of the "Dividual" in Anthropology: On Modes of Comparison and Processes of Concept Making (in Japanese), Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 81(1), 80-92, 201606
  18. Between Civil Society and Political Society: An Anthropology of Citizen Movements in Mumbai, India (in Japanese), Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, 201601
  19. ‘Fight the Filth’: Civic Sense and Middle-class Activism in Mumbai, Crispin Bates, Minoru Mio (eds.) Cities in South Asia. Routledge, 197-209, 201504
  20. Civic Sense and Cleanliness: Pedagogy and Aesthetics in Middle-class Mumbai Activism, Contemporary South Asia, 21(2), 89-101, 2013
  21. Cosmopolitanism and the Morality of Business among Navi Mumbai Merchants, South Asia Research, 32(3), 199-213, 201211
  22. Aesthetics of Civil Society: "Fight the Filth" Campaign in Mumbai, Economic & Political Weekly, 47(20), 13-16, 201205
  23. Indian Food in Contact Zone: Formation and Description of National Cuisine (in Japanese), Masakazu Tanaka;Minoru Inaba (eds.) Contact Zone in the Humanities II: Material Culture. Koyoshobo, 127-148, 201104
  24. The Logic of “Business” among Navi Mumbai Merchants: Rethinking “Cosmopolitanism" (in Japanese), Kunitachi Anthropology Research, 5, 47-72, 201005
  25. The Formation of Indian Food: on the Role of Indian Diaspora (in Japanese), Contact zone, 3, 124-143, 201003

Publications such as books

  1. 2024/10, Kinship as Fiction: Exploring the Dynamism of Intimate Relationships in India, Routledge India, Scholarly Book, Joint editor, eng, Anindita Majumdar; Yoko Taguchi, 9781032870601
  2. 2024/04, [Translation] Eating in Theory, Suiseisha, Scholarly Book, Joint Translation, Yoko Taguchi; Akinori Hamada; Yoko Ikari, 9784801008038
  3. 2021/09, [Translation] Beauty and the Beast, Suiseisha, Scholarly Book, Joint Translation, Atsushi Uemura; Yoko Taguchi; Akinori Hamada
  4. 2020/07, [Translation] The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice (in Japanese), Suiseisha, Scholarly Book, Joint Translation, Yoko Taguchi; Akinori Hamada, 9784801005044
  5. 2019/11, [Translation] Zika: Do Sertão Nordestino À Ameaça Global/Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat (in Japanese), Suiseisha, Scholarly Book, Joint Translation, jpn, Wakana Okuda; Yoko Taguchi, 9784801004566
  6. 2018/11, Between Civil Society and Political Society: Middle-class Citizen Movements in Mumbai (in Japanese), Suiseisha, Scholarly Book, Single work, jpn, Yoko Taguchi, 9784801003798, 296
  7. 2016/09, [Translation] The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (in Japanese), Scholarly Book, Joint Translation, Akinori Hamada; Yoko Taguchi, 9784801001961
  8. 2015/11, [Translation] Partial Connections (in Japanese), Scholarly Book, Joint Translation, jpn, Takashi Osugi; Akinori Hamada; Yoko Taguchi; Mitsuru Niwa; Ryuju Satomi, 9784801001350

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Pragmatic intimacy and viscous-fluid boundaries: Ethnographic exploration on Indian middle-class housework, Yoko Taguchi, 2024/10/26, With Invitation, Japanese
  2. Enacting Environment/Studies through Collaborative EMI Practice: An Ethnographic Exploration of Mediating Differences, Yoko TaguchiNozomi MizushimaMasaki Sagehashi, EASST-4S 2024 in Amsterdam, 2024/07/17, Without Invitation, English
  3. Workshop on English-Mediated Instruction: (Dis)Abilities and (Im)Possibilities in EMI Practice, Nick Kasparek; Yoko Taguchi; Nozomi Mizushima; Masaki Sagehashi, 2023/07/01
  4. As-if Family: Fiction and Imaginaries about Serving Relations and Domestic Work, Yoko Taguchi, “Reproductive Entanglements and the Politics of Care,” the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka & Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad joint workshop, 2022/12/20, The National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka & Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
  5. Merging Lanes: A Transdisciplinary Journey Toward Scaffolding Student Learning in English-Medium-Instruction Courses at a Japanese University, Nick Kasparek; Nozomi Mizushima; Masaki Sagehashi; Yoko Taguchi, Teacher Journeys Conference, Teacher Development SIG (Special Interest Group), JALT (The Japan Association for Language Teaching), 2022/10
  6. Family Figures: Pretenses of Work and Family around Domestic Service, Yoko Taguchi, The “Family Potential in Uncertain Times: Mobility, Technology, and Body” webinar series, 2022/02/17, National Museum of Ethnology
  7. Emotion and Nonchalance around Domestic Work in Urban India, Yoko Taguchi, 2022/02/12
  8. The Fiction of “Fluid Nuclear Units”: Domestic Workers and Middle-class Householding in Mumbai, Yoko Taguchi, The 31st Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for South Asian Studies, 2018/09/30, The Japanese Association for South Asian Studies
  9. Relatedness through Domestic Work: Contingent and Processual Connections of Family, Maids, and Personhood, Yoko Taguchi, "Examining the ‘New’ in Kinship and Family in South Asia,” Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad, 2018/02/02
  10. Negotiating Inside and Outside: Advanced Locality Management (ALM) and the Civic Realm in Mumbai, Yoko Taguchi, INDAS/Martin Chautari International Symposium “Peaceful Development of South Asia,” Himalaya Hotel, Kathmandu, 2018/01/05
  11. The Quest for Integrity: Middle-class Values and Corruption in Mumbai, Yoko Taguchi, The 28th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for South Asian Studies, 2015/09/27, The Japanese Association for South Asian Studies
  12. The “Dividual” in Anthropology: Lateral Development of “Personhood”, Moe Nakazora; Yoko Taguchi, IUAES Inter-Congress, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, 2014/05/16, IUAES
  13. Trust and Civil Society: Contemporary Activism in Urban India, Yoko Taguchi, “Trust in Super-Diversity” panel at the 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, The University of Manchester, 2013/08/06, IUAES
  14. Exploring representation: Election campaigns of civil society organizations in Mumbai, Taguchi Yoko, Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, 2013/06/09, THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
  15. "Fight the Filth": Aesthetics of the Citizen in Mumbai, India, Taguchi Yoko, Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, 2012/06/23, THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
  16. The Aesthetics and Form of Civil Society: Fighting the Filth in Mumbai, Yoko Taguchi, “Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship” Conference, European Research Council funded OECUMENE Project, The Open University, 2012/02/06

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grouping making and historical continuity in the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2023/04, 2026/03
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  2. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Rethinking South Asia Studies from the Perspective of "Emotion", 2022/04, 2026/03
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  3. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, An anthropological study on care work and householding in urban India, 2021/04, 2026/03
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  4. Inter-University Research Projects, Connecting diverse logics in global capitalism: An interdisciplinary approach, 2022/10, 2025/03
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  5. The Murata Science Foundation, Transdisciplinary Action Research for English-Medium-Instruction (EMI) Courses: Designing Effective Education Through Scaffolding, 2022/09, 2024/08
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  6. Minpaku Special Research Projects, National Museum of Ethnology, Family potential in uncertain times: mobility, technology, and body, 2021/04, 2024/03
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  7. Emotional moments of social changes/movements in South Asia, 2020/04, 2023/03
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  8. The Center for South Asian Studies at National Museum of Ethnology, 2016/04, 2022/03
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  9. Effective and inclusive information-sharing and the role of local universities during public health emergencies, 2020/06, 2021/03
  10. Inter-University Research Projects, Becoming groups: The anthropological study of multiple redistribution, 2013/10, 2016/03
  11. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, 2013/04, 2016/03
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  12. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, 2010/04, 2011/03
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Social Activities

History as Committee Members

  1. Editorial Board, Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 2024/06, 2026/06, The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
  2. The 57th Annual Meeting, Hiroshima Area Commitee, 2022/06, 2023/06, The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
  3. Editorial Board, Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology, 2020/06, 2022/05, The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
  4. Seminars for Next-Generation Researchers, Educational Committee, 2018/06, 2020/05, The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
  5. Election Committee, 2019/10, 2020/02, The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology

Other Social Contributions

  1. Eikei FGSS #4, Debora Diniz, "Behind the lens: a feminist perspective to visual ethnography", Eikei Feminism/Gender Studies Seminar, 2024/12/05, Presenter
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  2. Eikei FGSS #3, Annemarie Mol, "Author Talk: Eating in Theory", Eikei Feminism/Gender Studies Seminar, 2024/04/06, 2024/04/06, Presenter
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  3. Eikei FGSS #2, Paul Wenzel Geissler & Ruth Prince, "Contrary Science in a Post-colonial Institute: The Tanzanian Toxicologist Vera Ngowi and the Tropical Pesticide Research Institute in Arusha", Eikei Feminism/Gender Studies Seminar, 2024/03/10, Presenter
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  4. Eikei FGSS #1, Making of the "Feebleminded": Gender and Family for the Medical Discourse around Involuntary Sterilization in 1950s Japan, Eikei Feminism/Gender Studies Seminar, 2023/10/12, 2023/10/12, Organizing Member
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