Bluesky butterfly logo LinkedIn logo ;
Personen

Dr. James Farrer

Assoziierter Fellow

Akademischer Werdegang

1994–1995

  • 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.

1998–present

  • 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.

2005

  • 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.

2012

  • 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.

2019

  • 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.

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Food studies, culinary mobilities, and culinary globalization
  • International migration and intercultural encounters
  • Urban communities, small businesses, and social infrastructure
  • Sexuality, nightlife, and cosmopolitanism
  • Urban ethnography and public ethnography

Publikationen (Auswahl)