Academics Professors Information

ITO Takeshi
伊藤　毅

Associate Professor
Comparative Politics, Political Economy

B.A., Keio University
M.A., Hitotsubashi University
M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D., Yale University

Research and Teaching Interests：

My research lies at the intersection of ecology, capitalism, and state. It explores how interactions on multiple scales between human and non-human actors embedded in particular institutional and ecological settings produce social and ecological inequality with a focus on sustainability. My research interests include Agrarian and Environmental Change, Political Economy of Development, East and Southeast Asia, and theories of Hegemony and Resistance. I am committed to working with students on these and other research topics of their interests.

Research Group Website
KASA Sustainability

Selected Publications

Books

• 2008 A Sociological Study of American Research Universities, with Shujiro Yazawa, Tokyo: Toshindo, 2008: Pp. xiii + 208; bibliography, ISBN 488713813X.

Book Chapters

• 2016 “Everyday Citizenship in Village Java.” In Ward Berenschot, Henk Schulte Nordholt, and Laurens Bakker eds. Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia. Leiden: Brill: 51-67.

Journal Articles

• 2019 “Oysters and Tsunami: Iterative Learning and Nested Governance as Resilience in Post-Disaster Aquaculture in Hokkaido, Japan.” with Takehiro Watanabe. Society and Natural Resources 32(4), pp. 400-416.
• 2014 “Power to Make Land Dispossession Acceptable: A Policy Discourse Analysis of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE), Papua, Indonesia.” with Noer Fauzi Rachman, and Laksmi A. Savitri. Journal of Peasant Studies 41(1), pp.29-50

• 2011 “Historicizing the Power of Civil Society: A Perspective from Decentralization in Indonesia.” Journal of Peasant Studies, 38(2): 413-433.

• 2006 “Transforming the State-Society Relationship from the Village in Post Suharto Indonesia: The Case of Village N, Bandung District, West Java.” Southeast Asia—History and Culture 35.

• 2006 “The Dynamics of Local Governance Reform in Decentralizing Indonesia: Participatory Planning and Village Empowerment in Bandung, West Java.” Asian and African Area Studies 5(2): 137-183.

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