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Research Keywords

Food and Agriculture Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Critical Thinking, Rural Revitalization, Return Migration to Rural Areas, East Asia, Agrarianism, Rural Women

Themes

• Comparative social studies of food and agricultural ethics
• Critical studies on the ideal future of rural villages
• Elucidation of self-sufficient characteristics in modern Agrarianism
• Possibilities of modern food and agriculture systemic transformation
• Elucidation of modern characteristics of agricultural research

Staff name

• Professor: Dr. Motoki Akitsu
• Associate Professor: Dr. Kenta Sakanashi
• Associate Professor: Dr. Hart Nadav Feuer

Links to other sites on campus

• Kyoto University
• Graduate School of Agriculture
• Dvishion of Natural Resource Economics
• Asian Platform for Global Sustainability & Transcultural Studies

Academic associations

• The Japanese Association for Rural Studies (JARS)
• Japanese Association for Environmental Sociology (JAES)
• The Association for Regional Agricultural and Forestry Economics (ARFE)
• The Agricultural Economics Society of Japan (AESJ)
• Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
• Japan Association for African Studies (JAAS)
• The Japan Sociological Society (JSS)
• Japanese Society on Organic Science
• Society of Japanese Food Study
• Asian Rural Sociology Association(ARSA)
• International Rural Sociology Association (IRSA)