MARIKO YOSHIDA

Last Updated :2023/06/01

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor
E-mail
myoshidahiroshima-u.ac.jp

Basic Information

Educational Backgrounds

  • Australian National University, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, Resources, Environment, and Development (Sociocultural Anthropology), Australia, 2014/03, 2021/03
  • Columbia University, USA, 2011/09, 2013/05

Academic Degrees

  • Columbia University
  • Keio University

Research Keywords

  • Sociocultural anthropology
  • Environmental anthropology
  • Multispecies ethnography
  • Political ecology
  • Feminist STS
  • Interspecies labor in the Anthropocene
  • Oyster aquaculture

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • Association for Asian Studies
  • American Anthropological Association
  • Society for Social Studies of Science
  • The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Peace and Co-existence B
  2. 2023, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Contemporary Anthropology I

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. ★, "Cultivating the Ocean: Reflections on Desolate Life and Oyster Restoration in Hiroshima", Nurturing Alternative Futures: Living with Diversity in a More- than-Human World, 2023
  2. "Seed Oysters in Entangled Worlds: Ecological Disturbances, Knowledge Making, and Potentialities in Miyagi, Japan", Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia, 47, 2019
  3. ★, "On Scaling Precarity: The Materiality of Ocean Acidification", Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology, 21(1), 457-491, 2021
  4. ★, "Knowing Sea-Level Rise: Interpretive Practices of Uncertainty in Tuvalu", Practicing Anthropology, 41(2), 24-28, 2019

Publications such as books

  1. Eat, Consume, Symbiose: Exploring Food Systems from the Perspectives of Multispecies Ethnography, Seido-sha, 2021, 11, Scholarly Book, Cocompilation, 978-4-7917-7422-7

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Coexistence As a Fractal: Exhausted Oyster Life, Ocean Warming, and Multispecies Care in Japan, Mariko Yoshida, Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), 2023/03/17, Without Invitation, English, Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Boston
  2. Plowing the Ocean: Pacific Oyster Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystem Restoration in Hiroshima, Japan, Mariko Yoshida, Royal Anthropological Institute Anthropology and Conservation Virtual Conference, 2021/10/26, Without Invitation, English, Muhammad Kavesh; Natasha Fijn
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  3. Scaling Precarity: The Material-Semiotic Practices of Ocean Acidification, Mariko Yoshida, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, 2021/10/09, Without Invitation, English
  4. Troubling Ecologies of the Pacific Oyster in Japan, Mariko Yoshida, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)/The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), 2020/08/18, Without Invitation, English
  5. Troubling Ecologies and Biocultural Opportunities of the Pacific Oyster in Japan, Mariko Yoshida, When Species Travel: On the Rise and Consequence of Invasive Ecologies in Asia and the West Pacific, 2020/02/17, With Invitation, English, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  6. Seed Oysters in Entangled Worlds: Ecological Disturbances, Knowledge Making, and Potentialities in Miyagi, Japan, Mariko Yoshida, The Politics and Pitfalls of Maritime Governance II: An International Seminar by the UK-Japan Network on the Political Ecology of Coastal Societies, 2019/10/26, With Invitation, English, Tohoku University
  7. Thinking through Oysters in an age of Uncertainty: Ecological Crisis and Aquaculture Practices in Japan, Mariko Yoshida, Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice Workshop on Japanese Studies and Environmental Humanities, 2017/10/27, Without Invitation, English, University of Oxford
  8. More-than-Human Temporality: Thinking through Oysters in an Age of Risk and Uncertainty, Mariko Yoshida, Time, Technologies and the Anthropocene: Asian and Pacific Perspective, 2017/09/11, Without Invitation, English, The Australian National University
  9. Becoming Poisonous: Knowledge Practices of Comparison in the Oyster-Human Entanglement, Mariko Yoshida, The Biography of Poison: Reconsidering Fieldwork Methods in the Contemporary World through Interdisciplinary Approaches, 2017/01/21, Without Invitation, Japanese, The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
  10. Oyster Knowledge, Practice, and Nature in the Anthropocene, Mariko Yoshida, Annual Meeting of Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ), 2016/04/23, Without Invitation, English, Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ), Tohoku University
  11. Selfish Shellfish: Oyster Knowledge, Practice, and Nature in the Anthropocene, Mariko Yoshida, The Ethics of Hope? Posthumanism, Life, and Climate Change, 2015/11/25, With Invitation, English, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
  12. Technological Landscapes of Traveling Texts, Things, and Truths: Rethinking Ethnographic Praxis in Tuvalu, 2006-2010, Mariko Yoshida, Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), 2015/02/04, Without Invitation, English, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), Santa Fe, NM
  13. In Between Fluctuations: Interpretive Practices and Discursive Transformation under Climatic Pressure in Tuvalu, Mariko Yoshida, Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), 2014/02/04, Without Invitation, English, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), Kona, HI
  14. Knowing Sea-Level Rise: Local Practices of Constructing the Environmental Risk, Mariko Yoshida, Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), 2013/03/19, Without Invitation, English
  15. Responses to the Risk of Sea-level Rise among the Locals: A Case of the Small South Pacific Island Nation of Tuvalu, Mariko Yoshida, International Conference for Environmental Governance, 2011/06/10, Without Invitation, English, National Cheng Kung University

Awards

  1. Best MA Thesis Prize in Anthropology, Columbia University, Knowing Sea-Level Rise: Interpretive Practices of Uncertainty in Tuvalu

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. 2021, 2023
  2. Research Grant, 2019, 2021
  3. Vice-Chancellor's Higher Degree Research Travel Grants, 2018
  4. Fieldwork and Travel Grant
  5. International Postgraduate Research Scholarship
  6. Fulbright Grant for Graduate Study