Emma E. Cook

Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, Modern Japanese Studies, Hokkaido University

Degree: PhD Social Anthropology(SOAS: University of London)
MSc. Social Anthropology(University of Edinburgh)
BSc. Archaeology(University of Liverpool)

Researcher number: 90745788
J-GLOBAL ID: 201401042238619591
researchmap Member ID: B000235638

External link: http://emmaecook.com

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Aug, 2023 - Present

Modern Japanese Studies Program (Professor), Graduate School of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University
Apr, 2015 - Jul, 2023

Modern Japanese Studies Program (Associate Professor), Graduate School of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University
Aug, 2022 - Mar, 2023

Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2015

Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Modern Japanese Studies Program, Hokkaido University
Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2013

Adjunct Lecturer, Hosei University
Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2013

Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, International Christian University
Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2013

Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Tokyo
Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2013

Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Global and Transcultural Studies, Meiji Gakuin University

Research Projects

Technologies of Care: Food Allergy Treatments in Japan and the UK

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2026

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When Food is Risky: Food Allergies in Japan and the UK

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

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Japanese Freeters: Experiences of Employment, Life-course and Masculinity

Postdoctoral Researcher (Short-term), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2011

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Freeters in Contemporary Japan: An Ethnography of Challenged Masculinities

Japanese Studies Fellowship, Japan Foundation, Aug, 2006 - Aug, 2007

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Awards

2022

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), ‘Technologies of Care: Food Allergy Treatments in Japan and the UK’
2016

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), When Food is Risky: Food Allergies in Japan and the UK, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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2010

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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2008

Japanese Studies Research Scholarship, Meiji Jingu

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2007

Main Foundation Grant, Federation for Women Graduates (FfWG)

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2006

Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship, Japan Foundation

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Books and Other Publications

"Feeling (with) Japan: Affective, Sensory and Material Entanglements in the Field"

Emma E. Cook (with), Andrea De Antoni (Role: Joint editor)

Asian Anthropology (Special Issue), 2019 Peer-reviewed
Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict

Emma E. Cook, Allison Alexy (Role: Joint editor)

University of Hawai’i Press, Oct, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Reconstructing Adult Masculinities: Part-time Work in Contemporary Japan

Emma E. Cook

Routledge, 2016 Peer-reviewed

Papers

Core Outcome Set for IgE-mediated food allergy clinical trials and observational studies of interventions: International Delphi consensus study ‘COMFA’

Anastasia Demidova, Karl Philipp Drewitz, Parisut Kimkool, Nikolina Banjanin, Vladyslava Barzylovich, Erna Botjes, India Capper, Mary Anne R. Castor, Pasquale Comberiati, Emma E. Cook …

Allergy, Mar 3, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Anthropological and sociological perspectives on food allergy

Emma E. Cook

Clinical & Experimental Allergy, 53(10) 989-1003, Aug 31, 2023 Peer-reviewed
“I’m Not a Real Freeter: Aspiration and Irregular Labour in Japan,”

Emma E. Cook

Temporary and Gig Economy Workers in China and Japan: The Culture of Unequal Work, Jul, 2023 Peer-reviewed
“Undoing, Doing, Redoing” Commentary on “We are not Ikumen, We are Self-Reliant Househusbands: Crafting a Stay-At-Home-Father Identity in Japan.”

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Current Anthropology, 63(5) 555-556, Sep, 2022 Invited
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Embodied Memory, Affective Imagination, and Vigilance: Navigating Food Allergies in Japan

Emma E. Cook

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 45(4) 544-564, Dec 25, 2021 Peer-reviewed
37

‘Participant-Observation and Interviews: Going with the flow and dipping in and out’

Emma E. Cook

Studying Japan: Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods., Dec, 2020 Peer-reviewed
996

Masculinity Studies in Japan

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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture, 50-59, 2020 Peer-reviewedInvited
‘Food Allergies, Illness and Personhood in Japan’

Emma E. Cook

Understanding Japanese Society, Jul, 2019 Peer-reviewedInvited
‘Microbial Management’

Emma E. Cook

Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights (Cultural Anthropology), Apr, 2019 Peer-reviewedInvited
87

Feeling (with) Japan: affective, sensory and material entanglements in the field

De Antoni, A., Cook, E.E.

Asian Anthropology, 18(3) 139-153, 2019 Peer-reviewed
120

'Reflections on Fieldwork: Exploring Intimacy’

Emma E. Cook

Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict

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Oct, 2018
207

Power, Intimacy and Irregular Employment in Japan

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Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict, Oct, 2018 Peer-reviewed
78

Exploring Masculinities and Labour through Intimacy

Emma E. Cook

Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict, Oct, 2018 Peer-reviewed
156

Human-Microbe Entanglements: Food Allergies in Japan and the UK

Emma E. Cook

More-than-Human Worlds: A NatureCulture Blog Series, Jul, 2018 Peer-reviewedInvited
Book Review: Affective states: entanglements, suspensions, suspicions, edited by Mateusz Laszczkowski & Madeleine Reeves.

Emma E. Cook

2018
184

Risk and Affective Co-ordination: Food Allergy Experiences in the UK

Emma E. Cook

Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology (JRCA) 18(1): 129-142., 18(1) 129-142, Dec, 2017 Peer-reviewed
411

Aspirational Labour, Performativity and Masculinities in the Making

Emma E. Cook

Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. Issue 41., 41, Dec, 2017 Peer-reviewed
69

(Dis)Connections and Silence: Experiences of Family and Part-time Work in Japan

Emma E. Cook

Japanese Studies, 36(2) 155-172, May 3, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Reconstructing adult masculinities: Part-time work in contemporary Japan

Cook, E.E.

Reconstructing Adult Masculinities: Part-Time Work in Contemporary Japan, 2016

Misc.

Review (invited) of Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy by Gabriele Koch. 2020.

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Social Science Japan Journal, Dec 3, 2021 Invited
Review (invited) of Otaku and the struggle for imagination in Japan by Patrick W. Galbraith. 2019.

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 27(2) 439-440, Jun, 2021 Invited
Review (invited) of Affective states: entanglements, suspensions, suspicions, edited by Mateusz Laszczkowski & Madeleine Reeves. 2018.

Emma E. Cook

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27(1): 192-193., 27(1) 192-193, Feb, 2021 Invited
Review (invited) of Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club by Akiko Takeyama. 2016.

Emma E. Cook

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 24(1) 197-198, Mar, 2018 Invited
Book Review: Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Love, Sex and Labor, by Ayako Kano. 2016

Emma E. Cook

Japanese Studies 37(2):, 37(2) 265-266, 2017 Invited
「食物アレルギー対応が広がるには何が必要？／システムと文化の視点から」

Emma Cook

NPO法人アトピッ子地球の子ネットワークアレルギー相談をテーマにした：第3回事例検討報告集., 2016 71-72, Mar, 2016 Invited
Review (invited) of Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan

Emma E. Cook

American Anthropologist, 118(1) 195-196, Mar, 2016 Invited
Book Review: Dilemmas of Adulthood: Japanese Women and the Nuances of Long-Term Resistance, by Nancy Rosenberger. 2013.

Emma E. Cook

Japan Forum, 27(4) 566-568, 2015 Invited
Review of Disseration ‘Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives,’ by Anne Stefanie Aronsson

Emma E. Cook

Dissertation Reviews, 2014 Invited
Book Review: Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan

Emma E. Cook

Social Science Japan Journal, 15(1) 153-156, 2012 Invited

Professional Memberships

Presentations

Food Allergies and Gender

Cook, Emma E

Invited lecture at: NPO法人アトピッ子地球の子ネットワーク, Aug 10, 2023 Invited
“Reading the Air & Creating Trouble with Food Allergies in Japan.”

Cook, Emma E

Invited Lecture at: Hokkaido International Foundation. Hakodate, Japan., Jul 14, 2023 Invited
“Uncertainty and Risk: Food Allergies at Work in Japan.”

Emma E. Cook

Metropolitan State University of Denver. Invited Lecture, Feb 28, 2023 Invited
“Disclosing Food Allergies in Japan: Reading the Air, Imagination, and Trouble.”

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University of Colorado, Boulder. Invited Lecture, Feb 27, 2023 Invited
“Reading the Air and Creating Trouble: Food Allergy Disclosures in Japan.”

Emma E. Cook

University of Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies. Noon Lecture Series, Jan 19, 2023 Invited
Imagined Futures: Food Allergies at Work

Emma E. Cook

European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS), Aug 28, 2021
Ranran Lunch! Serious Play, Food Allergies, and the Cultivation of Empathic Feeling in Japan

Emma E. Cook

ASA Conference, Apr 1, 2021
‘Reading the Air’ and Imagination: Food Allergy Tracking in Japan

Emma E. Cook

Skills of Feeling with the World, Fifth Workshop: Affective Technologies of Memory and Imagination, Jan 19, 2020 Invited
Activist Food Allergy Experts: Accountability and the Case of Nut Bans on Flights

Emma E. Cook

American Anthropological Association Conference, Nov 22, 2019
“Allergens in the Air: Peanuts on Airplanes”

Emma Cook

ASA Conference, University of East Anglia, Sep 4, 2019
“Microbial Management and Technologies of Care”

Emma Cook

The Skills of Feeling with the World, Fourth Workshop at Ritsumeikan University., Feb 27, 2019 Invited
“Human-Microbe Symbiosis and Entanglement in Japan”

Emma Cook

American Association of Anthropology (AAA), Nov 16, 2018
“Sociality and Imagination: Food Allergy Enskilment in Japan”

Emma E. Cook

ASA Conference, Oxford, Sep 19, 2018
“Human-Microbe Entanglement: Food Allergies in Japan”.

Emma E. Cook

Association of Asian Studies, Washington., Mar 23, 2018
Embodied Memory and Affective Imagination: Experiencing Food Allergies in Contemporary Japan

Emma Cook

University of Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies Lecture Series, Mar 15, 2018 Invited
Embodied Memory and Affective Imagination: Food Allergy Tracking in Japan

Emma Cook

The Skills of Feeling with the World Workshop: Embodied Memory and Affective Imagination Skills, Feb 3, 2018 Invited
“Feeling (in) Japan: Affective, Sensory and Material Entanglements in the Field”

Emma Cook (with, Andrea De Antoni

European Association of Asian Studies, Sep 2, 2017
Gender and Food Allergies in Japan and the UK

Emma Cook

【馬場ゼミ／考えるための道しるべ】, 2017 Invited
“One Pot, One Family”: Food Sharing and Affective Entanglements in Japan

Emma Cook

Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) Spring Conference. Osaka Gakuin University., 2017
Food Allergies, Senses and Personhood in Japan and the UK

Emma Cook

East Asian Anthropological Association. Hokkaido University, 2016

Committee Memberships

Sep, 2020 - Present

International Editorial Board Member, Social Science Japan Journal
Aug, 2018 - Present

Board Member, NPO Atopicco Chikyu no Nettowa-ku
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

Executive commiitee member, Anthropology of Japan in Japan

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Research History

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Books and Other Publications

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Misc.

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