YOKO TAGUCHI

Last Updated :2026/03/23

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
Web Site
https://sites.google.com/view/yokotaguchi
https://sites.google.com/view/yokotaguchi/prospective-graduate-students
E-mail
yokothiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
Inspired by the anthropology of personhood and morality, I have explored these concepts through fieldwork on civic movements and care work in India. Drawing on anthropological cases and theories, I'm researching diverse possibilities for humans as mutually dependent beings.

*For prospective graduate students: Please read my instructions here.

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, Japan, 2009/04/01, 2013/03/31
  • Osaka University, Graduate School of Human Sciences, M.A. Program, Japan, 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. (Im)potentiality of the Family: Reimagining Relations through Domestic Work, Senri Ethnological Studies, 115, 15-28, 20260305
  2. [Book Review] Indo, Mukidashi no Sekai, Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 86(4), 706-708, 202203
  3. [Book Review] Kalindi Vora, Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor, Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 85(3), 547-550, 202012
  4. [Book Review] Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Kunitachi Anthropology Research, 11, 11-22, 201706
  5. The Extension of Housework: Reconceptualizing Care and Social Relations (in Japanese), Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 88(4), 761-772, 202403
  6. Spatial Emotion and Pragmatic Intimacy around Domestic Work in Urban India, FINDAS International Conference Series, 7, 16-25, 202203
  7. 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
  8. Kinship as Fiction: Exploring the Dynamism of Intimate Relationships in South Asia, Contemporary South Asia, 29(1), 1-9, 202103
  9. The Fiction of ‘Fluid Nuclear Units’: Rearticulating Relations through Domestic Work in Mumbai, Contemporary South Asia, 29(1), 50-65, 202103
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. Householding Stories: Domestic Work and the Mutuality of Being in Mumbai (in Japanese), Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 84(2), 135-152, 201909
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. An Interview with Marisol de la Cadena, NatureCulture, 201705
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. Between Civil Society and Political Society: An Anthropology of Citizen Movements in Mumbai, India (in Japanese), Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, 201601
  20. ‘Fight the Filth’: Civic Sense and Middle-class Activism in Mumbai, Crispin Bates, Minoru Mio (eds.) Cities in South Asia. Routledge, 197-209, 201504
  21. Civic Sense and Cleanliness: Pedagogy and Aesthetics in Middle-class Mumbai Activism, Contemporary South Asia, 21(2), 89-101, 2013
  22. Cosmopolitanism and the Morality of Business among Navi Mumbai Merchants, South Asia Research, 32(3), 199-213, 201211
  23. Aesthetics of Civil Society: "Fight the Filth" Campaign in Mumbai, Economic & Political Weekly, 47(20), 13-16, 201205
  24. 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
  25. The Logic of “Business” among Navi Mumbai Merchants: Rethinking “Cosmopolitanism" (in Japanese), Kunitachi Anthropology Research, 5, 47-72, 201005
  26. The Formation of Indian Food: on the Role of Indian Diaspora (in Japanese), Contact zone, 3, 124-143, 201003

Publications such as books

  1. For Those Learning Care, Taking Distance from Patient Choice, Sekaishisosha, Textbook, Contributor, Yoko Taguchi (Chap 14), Yumi Nishimura and Shinichiro Kumagaya (eds), 9784790718109, 272, 184-195
  2. 2026/03, Histories and Collective Transformations with Infectious Diseases, Collectivity and Viscosity with Domestic Work: From the Experience of Infectious Disease in India, Shumpusha, Scholarly Book, Contributor, 日本語 Japanese, Yoko Taguchi (Chapter 1), Tomoo Ichikawa (ed), 9784868161226, 232, 29-61
  3. 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
  4. 2024/04, [Translation] Eating in Theory, Suiseisha, Scholarly Book, Joint Translation, Yoko Taguchi; Akinori Hamada; Yoko Ikari, 9784801008038
  5. 2021/09, [Translation] Beauty and the Beast, Suiseisha, Scholarly Book, Joint Translation, Atsushi Uemura; Yoko Taguchi; Akinori Hamada
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 2016/09, [Translation] The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (in Japanese), Scholarly Book, Joint Translation, Akinori Hamada; Yoko Taguchi, 9784801001961
  10. 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. Thinking about care for carers: Can housework be eliminated?, Yoko Taguchi; Nozomi Mizushima, The 6th Psychological Research Meeting, 2025/10/12, With Invitation, Japanese, Arakawa Press
  2. Reconnecting with the city: On walking projects in Mumbai, Yoko Taguchi, The 38th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for South Asian Studies, 2025/09/27, Without Invitation, Japanese, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
  3. Pragmatic intimacy and viscous-fluid boundaries: Ethnographic exploration on Indian middle-class housework, Yoko Taguchi, 2024/10/26, With Invitation, Japanese
  4. 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
  5. Workshop on English-Mediated Instruction: (Dis)Abilities and (Im)Possibilities in EMI Practice, Nick Kasparek; Yoko Taguchi; Nozomi Mizushima; Masaki Sagehashi, 2023/07/01
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Emotion and Nonchalance around Domestic Work in Urban India, Yoko Taguchi, 2022/02/12
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. The “Dividual” in Anthropology: Lateral Development of “Personhood”, Moe Nakazora; Yoko Taguchi, IUAES Inter-Congress, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, 2014/05/16, IUAES
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. "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
  18. 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 #5, Anindita Majumdar, "Whose Biological Clock? Aging and Assisted Reproduction in Contemporary India", JASCA Chu-Shikoku Anthropological Meetings, Eikei Feminism/Gender Studies Seminar, Presenter
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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History as Peer Reviews of Academic Papers

  1. 2025, Oxford Intersections: Gender Justice, Others, reviewer, 1
  2. 2025, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Others, reviewer, 1
  3. 2025, Rutgers University Press, Others, reviewer, 1