MARIKO YOSHIDA

Last Updated :2024/10/01

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor
E-mail
myoshidahiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
Mariko Yoshida is a cultural anthropologist with research interests in ecological uncertainty and precariousness within the interconnected metabolic processes of the underwater realm. Her current work-in-progress focuses on the transnational life of oysters, examining Japanese aquaculture as a lens through which to understand ecological emergencies, alterations, and disruptions that unfold across both inter- and intra-species dynamics. Yoshida teaches environmental anthropology, engaging with interdisciplinary approaches such as commodity chain analysis, feminist science and technology studies (STS), blue humanities, and multispecies ethnography.

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • M.A.(Media and Governance), Keio University
  • M.A.(Anthropology), Columbia University
  • Ph.D. (Anthropology), The Australian National University

Educational Activity

  • [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Integrated Arts and Sciences : Department of Integrated Global Studies : Integrated Global Studies
  • [Master's Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : International Peace and Co-existence Program
  • [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : International Peace and Co-existence Program

Research Keywords

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

Affiliated Academic Societies

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

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  2. 2024, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Year, Research into Humanities and Social Sciences
  3. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Peace and Co-existence B
  4. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Ethnographic Theory

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. 2024, Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society, edited by Ryuma Shineha and Koichi Mikami, BOOK CHAPTER: Multispecies Ethnography, Nakanishiya Press, 2024, Scholarly Book, Single work, 9784779517792
  2. 2023, Nurturing Alternative Futures: Living with Diversity in a More-than-Human World, edited by Muhammad Kavesh and Natasha Fijn, BOOK CHAPTER: Cultivating the Ocean: Reflections on Desolate Life and Oyster Restoration in Hiroshima, Routledge, 2023, Scholarly Book, Single work, English, 9781003439011
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  3. 2021, Eat, Consume, Symbiose: Exploring Food Systems from the Perspectives of Multispecies Ethnography, Seido-sha, Scholarly Book, Cocompilation, Shiaki Kondo and Mariko Yoshida, 978-4-7917-7422-7

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Oyster Reef Restoration and Urban Coastal Care in Times of Metabolic Disruptions, Mariko Yoshida, The 42nd Annual Meeting: Symposium on 'Unpacking "the Invisible" Beyond the Boundaries of Urban Sociology', 2024/09/05, With Invitation, Japanese, The Japan Association for Urban Sociology (JAUS), Rikkyo University
  2. Metabolic Thinking with Oysters: Multi-scalar Unknowing(s), Ocean Restoration, and More-than-Human Coordination, Mariko Yoshida, The 11th quadrennial joint conference of 4S/EASST, 2024/07/19, Without Invitation, English, 4S/EASST, Amsterdam
  3. Intraspecies Frontiers: Imperial Expansion, Industrial Capitalism, and Racialized Oysters, Mariko Yoshida, Hybridity: Unravelling the Nexus of Domestication and Wild, 2024/04/24, With Invitation, English, Muhammad Kavesh, Natasha Fijn, and Mariko Yoshida, The Australian National University
  4. Intraspecies Frontiers: How "alien" Japanese oysters became naturalized as "Pacific" oysters, Mariko Yoshida, Roundtable organizer and chair for "The Curious Case of Nonhumans in Anthropology," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), 2023/11/17, Without Invitation, English, AAA/CASCA, Toronto, Canada
  5. Values in the Shell: Interspecies Labor in the Making of Japanese Oyster Seasonality, Mariko Yoshida, Annual Meeting of The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), 2023/11/10, Without Invitation, English, The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Honolulu, HA.
  6. Discussant for Kristian Karlo Saguin's monograph, "Making and Remaking Urban Ecologies across Manila's Edge", Mariko Yoshida, The 1st Seminar of the Anthropological Institute of Hiroshima (TAIHI), 2022/11/29, With Invitation, English
  7. Shucking Uncertainty: How the Pacific Oyster Guides Attention to Commodity, Climate Science, and the More-than-human Condition., Mariko Yoshida, Hakusan Society of Anthropology, 2021/06/21, With Invitation, English
  8. 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
  9. 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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  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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. Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (KAKENHI), The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2024
  2. Incentive Research Grant (the best project in the Humanities and Social Sciences), The Lotte Foundation, 2024
  3. Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up (KAKENHI), The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2021
  4. Research Grant, The Matsushita Konosuke Memorial Foundation, 2019
  5. Vice-Chancellor's Higher Degree Research Travel Grant, The Australian National University, 2018
  6. International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (Tuition Fee Exemption Sponsorship), The Australian National University, 2014
  7. University Research Scholarship, The Australian National University, 2014
  8. Fieldwork and Travel Grant, The Australian National University, 2014
  9. Fulbright Grant for Graduate Study, The US Fulbright Foreign Student Program, 2011
  10. Taikichiro Mori Memorial Research Fund, Research Promotion Grant, 2008
  11. The Masuda Educational Foundation, Fieldwork Grant, 2007
  12. Keio University, Educational Incentive Award for Overseas Fieldwork, 2006

Social Activities

Organizing Academic Conferences, etc.

  1. Hybridity: Unravelling the Nexus of Domestication and Wild, 2024/

History as Peer Reviews of Academic Papers

  1. 2024, Philosophy and Global Affairs, 1
  2. 2023, Disasters Journal, Reviewer, 1