Research Faculty

SUGA Yutaka

SUGA Yutaka

Professor
Department of Pan Asian Studies,
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
suga[at]
Research theme: Nature and Culture of East Asia, Pulic Folklore

Nature and Culture of East Asia

Research Topics



Dr. Yutaka Suga is Professor of Folklore at Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia. He is a folklorist who studies the community based management of natural resources and cultural resources, the theory of Commons, the international cultural regimes and policies of intangible cultural heritages, and the possibility of Public Folklore in Japan. His primary fieldworks are in Japan and China. He teaches a course in folklore theory at Department of Area Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Research activities

Articles and Book Chapters
  • Suga, Yutaka. “Into the Bullring: The Significance of ‘Empathy’ after the Earthquake.” We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery. Edited by Carl Lindahl, Michael Dylan Foster, and Kate Parker Horigan: Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022: 27–41.
  • Suga, Yutaka. “Stille Gewalt―Städte, Flüsse,unsichtbare Mauer und sozial Schwache in der japanischen Gesellschaft.” Themen und Tendenzen der deutschen und japanischen Volkskunde im Austausch. Edited by Johannes Moser: Münster: Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2018: 99-118. (in German) [Link]
  • Suga, Yutaka. “Into the Bullring: The Significance of ‘Empathy’ after the Earthquake.”Fabula: International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) 58(1–2) 2017.7: 25–38. [Link]
  • Suga, Yutaka. “Historical Changes in Communal Fisheries in Japan.” Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia. Edited by Haruka Yanagisawa: Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2015: 113-135. [Link]
  • Suga, Yutaka. “Những chuyên gia lợi dụng thảm hoạ – Quản trj hợp đồng (collaborative governance): lí tưởng và hiện thực.” Bài giảng chuyên đề nghiên cứu Nhật Bản – Thảm hoạ và Phục hưng. Edited by Võ Minh Vũ: Nhà xuất bản Thế giới, 2015: 55-73. (in Vietnamese) [Link]
  • Suga, Yutaka. “The Substituted Forest: Political and Social Effects on Japan’s Spaces of Worship.”The Memoirs of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia: Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, no. 164 2013.12: 1-20. [Link]
  • Suga, Yutaka. “The Tragedy of the Conceptual Expansion of the Commons.” Local Commons and Democratic Environmental Governance. Edited by Takeshi Murota, and Ken Takeshita: Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2013: 3-18. [Link]
  • Suga, Yutaka. “Chinese Cricket-Fighting.”International Journal of ASIAN STUDIES: Cambridge (UK); Cambridge University Press 3, no. 1 2006.1: 77-93. [Link]
Conference
  • Suga, Yutaka. ““The Materiality of Spontaneous Shrines: The Formation of Urban Folklore around Unexpected Deaths”.” Presented at the 10th International Forum on Urban Society ( Invited lecture), East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, October 25-27 2019. [Link]
  • Suga, Yutaka. “Quiet Violence: Urban rivers, hidden walls, and vulnerable populations in Japanese society.” Presented at the Perspectives and Positions of Cultural and Folklore Studies in Japan and Germany (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde, Folklore Society of Japan, International Symposium Meeting)( Invited lecture), Institut für Volkskunde/Europäische Ethnologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, German, October 28-29 2016. [Link]
  • Suga, Yutaka. “Into the Bullring: The Significance of “Empathy.”.” Presented at the American Folklore Society 2012 Annual Meeting( Invited lecture), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, October 27 2012.
  • Suga, Yutaka. “Into the Bullring: The Significance of “Empathy.”.” Presented at the American Folklore Society 2012 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, October 27 2012.
  • Suga, Yutaka. “Substituted Sacred Place.” Presented at the American Folklore Society 2009 Annual Meeting “Examiningthe Ethics of Place”( Invited lecture), Boise, Idaho, USA, October 24 2009.
  • Suga, Yutaka. “”Iriai” Case Study: Communal Management of Salmon Fishing in Japan-Negotiating an Egalitarian Ideology.” Presented at the American Folklore Society 2008 Annual Meeting “The Commons and the Commonwealth”( Invited lecture), Louisville, Kentucky, USA, October 25 2008.
Magazine Articles
  • Yutaka, Suga. “The Challenge of Public History in Japan.”International Public History Newsletter 2: International Federation for Public History (2020.10): 14.

Experience

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