Chika Watanabe
@chikaw.bsky.social
Social anthropologist of disaster preparedness, development, NGOs.
Book contract signed 🎉. Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness along the Ring of Fire coming in 2026 with Stanford UP. An ethnographic study of people across Japan and Chile teaching preparedness through play, beyond logics of securitization.
My partner mocked up some potential book covers 🤔
My partner mocked up some potential book covers 🤔
July 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Book contract signed 🎉. Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness along the Ring of Fire coming in 2026 with Stanford UP. An ethnographic study of people across Japan and Chile teaching preparedness through play, beyond logics of securitization.
My partner mocked up some potential book covers 🤔
My partner mocked up some potential book covers 🤔
🤩Join us for the next @UoMAnthropology seminar, 24 March, for Jieun Kim's 'Blood and Citizenship in a Fragmented Nation: Logics of gift, debt and inheritance in South Korea'. See you there!
March 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🤩Join us for the next @UoMAnthropology seminar, 24 March, for Jieun Kim's 'Blood and Citizenship in a Fragmented Nation: Logics of gift, debt and inheritance in South Korea'. See you there!
Next week's @UoMAnthropology seminar is our very own Mateusz Laszczkowski, with 'Territorio is where you meet others': politics of place in an Alpine rebellion". See you there!
March 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Next week's @UoMAnthropology seminar is our very own Mateusz Laszczkowski, with 'Territorio is where you meet others': politics of place in an Alpine rebellion". See you there!
Our next @UoMAnthropology Monday seminar is 'Corrosive kinship & forms of healing and care: “Forced marriage in the UK”' by Perveez Mody. See you there!
March 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Our next @UoMAnthropology Monday seminar is 'Corrosive kinship & forms of healing and care: “Forced marriage in the UK”' by Perveez Mody. See you there!
Next Monday's seminar @UoMAnthropology is 'Strategic ignorance, forgetting and misrecognition in Parliaments' by Emma Crewe. See you there!
February 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Next Monday's seminar @UoMAnthropology is 'Strategic ignorance, forgetting and misrecognition in Parliaments' by Emma Crewe. See you there!
Our @UoMAnthropology seminar TODAY 24 Feb is 'Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town' by Deana Jovanović. See you there!
February 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Our @UoMAnthropology seminar TODAY 24 Feb is 'Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town' by Deana Jovanović. See you there!
Next @UoMAnthropology Monday seminar (17th February) is 'Alpine Border Conflict: Migration and Social Polarization in the Everyday Life of Intra-EU Borders' by Cecilia Vergnano! See you there😀.
February 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Next @UoMAnthropology Monday seminar (17th February) is 'Alpine Border Conflict: Migration and Social Polarization in the Everyday Life of Intra-EU Borders' by Cecilia Vergnano! See you there😀.
Our next @UoMAnthropology Monday seminar will be with Omer Aijazi's 'Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir'. See you there! events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
February 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Our next @UoMAnthropology Monday seminar will be with Omer Aijazi's 'Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir'. See you there! events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
🥳@UoMAnthropology's Monday seminars are back on 27 January! Starting out with Nikita Simpson's talk, 'How do we theorise ecological distress? A view from the Western Himalayas'. @NiksSimpson (in person only). See flyer for details and whole programme.
January 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🥳@UoMAnthropology's Monday seminars are back on 27 January! Starting out with Nikita Simpson's talk, 'How do we theorise ecological distress? A view from the Western Himalayas'. @NiksSimpson (in person only). See flyer for details and whole programme.
Everyone is invited to the next Monday anthropology seminar at the U of Manchester (in person only). 'Corallers of Crises: between the horror and glee of climate inaction', by Andrea Pia. See you there!
November 20, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Everyone is invited to the next Monday anthropology seminar at the U of Manchester (in person only). 'Corallers of Crises: between the horror and glee of climate inaction', by Andrea Pia. See you there!
What kind of papers make it to review? How long do reviews take? Join us to learn how you can publish your work in the JRAI. Whether you’re a PhD student or a seasoned anthropologist, everyone is welcome!
📆5 December
🕙2-3.30 pm (GMT)
💻Register here: durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📆5 December
🕙2-3.30 pm (GMT)
💻Register here: durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 24, 2023 at 1:29 PM
What kind of papers make it to review? How long do reviews take? Join us to learn how you can publish your work in the JRAI. Whether you’re a PhD student or a seasoned anthropologist, everyone is welcome!
📆5 December
🕙2-3.30 pm (GMT)
💻Register here: durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📆5 December
🕙2-3.30 pm (GMT)
💻Register here: durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...