2017 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Digital Ethnographic Mapping of Neighborhood Foodscapes in Shanghai and Tokyo
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16K04099
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| Research Institution | Sophia University |
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Principal Investigator |
Farrer James 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (40317508)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | foodways / urban sociology / food studies / sociology of work / community |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This year I made progress on the research project in both Shanghai and Tokyo fieldwork. The fieldwork in Shanghai is primarily represented through scholarly publications. The fieldwork in Tokyo is primarily represented through the ongoing online publication of digital ethnography in the Nishiogiology webpage (www.nishiogiology.org), where in the academic year of 2017-18, I published 17 articles in English and Japanese. The average monthly page views for this research webpage have now reached 2000 according to google analytics. I have presented the findings at international conferences and in book chapters.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The research is progressing as I had planned. In Tokyo, the work on online publications is progressing more quickly and smoothly than I had imagined, but the videography is going a bit more slowly. The research in Shanghai is purely ethnographic without an online component, and I am already proceeding to the publication phase.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
This coming year I will implement the videography component of the online ethnography, and produce two scholarly papers on the Tokyo component of the research. I will complete the Shanghai research and publish a scholarly book based on the Shanghai data.
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| Causes of Carryover |
This year I was able to travel to Shanghai for only a short fieldtrip. The coming year I will have a longer fieldwork trip and more expenses related to the videography on the website as well as research assistant expenses.
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| Remarks |
Nishiogiology is an ethnographic research project focusing on Tokyo urban foodways, the meanings of culinary work, and changing forms of community participation. See www.nishiogiology.org
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