{"id":20684,"date":"2026-10-01T11:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=person&#038;p=20684"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T12:15:39","slug":"dr-james-farrer","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-james-farrer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr James Farrer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic Career<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1994\u20131995<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, engaging in ethnographic fieldwork on sexuality and social change in reform-era Shanghai, followed by fieldwork visits over a decade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1998\u2013present<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sophia University, Tokyo. Faculty member since 1998; currently Professor of Sociology and Global Studies. My research in Tokyo includes the neighborhood foodways project Nishiogiology, a bilingual public ethnography begun in 2015 that explores food, small businesses, livelihoods, and community life in Nishi-Ogikubo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2005<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visiting Researcher and Visiting Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai. Research on expatriate communities and urban nightlife, which developed into two book projects, with yearly fieldwork visits over a decade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2012<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visiting Researcher, Roskilde University, Denmark. A formative stage of my research on global Japanese restaurants, examining culinary mobilities, transnational networks, and the adaptation of Japanese cuisine by migrant entrepreneurs of varied backgrounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New York University and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York. Visiting research and fieldwork activities during the concluding stages of my global Japanese foodways project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Food studies, culinary mobilities, and culinary globalization<\/li>\n<li>International migration and intercultural encounters<\/li>\n<li>Urban communities, small businesses, and social infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Sexuality, nightlife, and cosmopolitanism<\/li>\n<li>Urban ethnography and public ethnography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Publications (Selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Farrer, James. 2024. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/15528014.2023.2262191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Urban Foodways and Social Sustainability: Neighborhood Restaurants as Social Infrastructure<\/a>.\u201d <em>Food, Culture &amp; Society<\/em> 27(5): 1377\u20131393.<\/li>\n<li>Farrer, James, and David L. Wank, eds. 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/uhpress.hawaii.edu\/title\/the-global-japanese-restaurant-mobilities-imaginaries-and-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> Honolulu: University of Hawai\u2018i Press. Winner of the 2024 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award, edited volume category.<\/li>\n<li>Farrer, James. 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/International-Migrants-in-Chinas-Global-City-The-New-Shanghailanders\/Farrer\/p\/book\/9780815382638\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>International Migrants in China\u2019s Global City: The New Shanghailanders<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> Abingdon: Routledge.<\/li>\n<li>Farrer, James, and Andrew David Field. 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/S\/bo20298865.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/li>\n<li>Farrer, James. 2002. <a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/O\/bo3619770.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":20685,"template":"","person_category":[277],"class_list":["post-20684","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-forschende"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/20684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=20684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}