Hansen Hokkaido Dairy Farm

Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9648-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of frontiers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hansen, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. A Conceptual Scaffolding

2. Toward Modernity: The Forming and Reforming of a Northern Frontier

3. From Traction to Teishoku: Tracing the Human-Bovine Trajectory

4. Problems Protecting the Japanese Dairy Industry

5. Farm Structures

6. The Birth of Grand Hopes

7. Dairy Farmers: Being, Becoming, and Making

8. From Teat to Tot: Following Flows

9. Producing and Pumping

10. Keeping It All Working

11. Locals, Lo-siders, Outsiders, and No-siders

12. Assembling Communities: Two Genders and One Religion

Conclusion: On the Frontiers of Animal-Human-Technology

Epilogue

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Hansen is Professor in the Department of International Resource Sciences at Akita University in Japan.