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Isaac Gagné

Isaac Gagné
Principal Researcher
Kulturanthropologie
Managing Editor Contemporary Japan
Seit Juni 2017

gagne@dijtokyo.org

I am a cultural anthropologist with interests in issues of morality and ethics, religion and modernization, and the role of local community groups in the face of disaster and social crises. My current research is on the diversity of grassroots social welfare practices in Japan. In particular, my research examines two issues: 1) How global discourses and practices of mental health care are localized to address the psychosocial challenges following the March 11, 2011 disaster in northeastern Japan; 2) How transformations in national welfare policies and community dynamics are connected to the emergence of new forms and meanings of social welfare practices in aging and shrinking local communities in central Japan. I am also interested in issues of subcultural fandom practices and gender and sexuality among youth. I am preparing a book manuscript based on my dissertation research on the relationship between religion, secularity, and morality under socioeconomic and demographic changes in contemporary Japan. Before joining the DIJ I worked at Waseda University’s Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and The University of Hong Kong.

Laufende DIJ Projekte

Die Werte der Nachhaltigkeit und die Nachhaltigkeit der Werte im heutigen Japan

Den Menschen zuhören: Psychologische Basisfürsorge in ländlichen Gegenden in Japan

Aktuelle Publikationen

Waldenberger, Franz & Gagné, Isaac (Eds.) (2023). Contemporary Japan, Volume 35, Issue 2. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. LINK
Gagné, Isaac (2021). "The Changing Meanings of Comparisons for Sociocultural Anthropology". In: Sidaway, James D. & Waldenberger, Franz (Eds.), Comparing Comparisons (pp. 13-16). Iudicium. (DIJ Miscellanea). LINK
Gagné, Isaac (2021). "Mapping the local economy of care: Social welfare and volunteerism in local communities". In: Ganseforth, Sonja & Jentzsch, Hanno (Eds.), Rethinking Locality in Japan (pp. 102-116). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. LINK
Gagné, Isaac (2020). "Fairness in research and publishing: The balancing act of cultural translation". In: Kottmann, Nora & Reiher, Cornelia (Eds.), Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods (pp. 442-445). Nomos.
Gagné, Isaac (2020). "Style and Stylization". The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology (pp. 1-9). LINK
Gagné, Isaac (2020). "Dislocation, Social Isolation, and the Politics of Recovery in Post-Disaster Japan". Transcultural Psychiatry. LINK
Gagné, Isaac (2020). "Tokyo 2020 from the regional sidelines". In: Holthus, Barbara, Gagné, Isaac, Manzenreiter, Wolfram & Waldenberger, Franz (Eds.), Japan trough the lens of the Tokyo Olympics (pp. 118-123). Routledge. LINK
Holthus, Barbara, Gagné, Isaac, Manzenreiter, Wolfram & Waldenberger, Franz (2020). "Postscript: The new Olympic race against COVID-19". In: Holthus, Barbara, Gagné, Isaac, Manzenreiter, Wolfram & Waldenberger, Franz (Eds.), Japan through the lens of the Tokyo Olympics (pp. 17-17). Routledge. LINK
Holthus, Barbara, Gagné, Isaac, Manzenreiter, Wolfram & Waldenberger, Franz (2020). "Understanding Japan through the lens of Tokyo 2020". In: Holthus, Barbara, Gagné, Isaac, Manzenreiter, Wolfram & Waldenberger, Franz (Eds.), Japan through the lens of the Tokyo Olympics (pp. 1-7). Routledge.
Gagné, Isaac (2020). "Advertising the Games: Sponsoring a new era". In: Holthus, Barbara, Gagné, Isaac, Manzenreiter, Wolfram & Waldenberger, Franz (Eds.), Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics (pp. 26-31). Routledge.
Holthus, Barbara, Gagné, Isaac, Manzenreiter, Wolfram & Waldenberger, Franz (Eds.) (2020). Japan through the lens of the Tokyo Olympics. Routledge. LINK
Waldenberger, Franz & Gagné, Isaac (Eds.) (2019). Contemporary Japan, Volume 31, Issue 1. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. LINK
Gagné, Isaac (2018). "Contemporary Japan – DIJ’s Flagship Journal". DIJ Newsletter, 58. LINK