| 研究実績の概要 |
In 2023 (final year of research), PI and Co-PI work on the three main areas. First, we completed writing one journal article which explores the transformation of the Kushiro River from a living organism to a water infrastructure designed to facilitate state formation from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century. The article was accepted and is scheduled to be published with the International Journal of Asian Studies (Cambridge). Second, we also conducted four semi-structured interviews (three in Japan and one in the US) with key individuals and organizations in the salmon aquaculture industry. Some of the interviews will be transcribed and published on our website. Third, building on this, we began to write one article on the interactions of social-ecological relations through the lens of salmon in the Kushiro River basin. It examines the ways in which competition and collaboration among various actors and actants over control of water and salmon have transformed the Kushiro River basin (i.e., the expansion of human settlements from the coast to inland areas, building of water and land infrastructures, reengineering and rechanneling of river and tributary courses, and construction of levees, weirs and hatcheries among others. It will be included in an edited volume).
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