Mika Markus MERVIO

Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, Dept of Forein Studies, Graduate School of Socilogy, Kibi International University

Degree: Doctor of Social Sciences(University of Tampere(Finland))
Licentiate of Social Sciences(University of Tampere(Finland))
Master of Social Science(University of Tampere(Finland))

J-GLOBAL ID: 200901084437865814
researchmap Member ID: 1000311151

Mika Markus Merviö is Professor of International Relations at the Kibi International University, Okayama, Japan. Previously he has been working at the University of Tampere, Finland (1983-1995), and from which he also received his Ph.D. (International Relations). Then he moved to the International Christian University, Tôkyô, Japan as a JSPS researcher and from there to the Miyazaki International University and the University of Shimane, where he worked as a Professor. From 2006 he has been working at the Kibi International University. His research interests include political and social issues, history, art and environment.

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2006 - Present

Professor, School of Foreign Language Studies Department of Foreign Studies, Kibi International University
Apr, 2000 - Mar, 2006

Professor, University of Shimane, Faculty of Policy Studies
Apr, 1998 - Mar, 2000

Professor, Miyazaki International College, Faculty of Comparative Culture
Jan, 1997 - Mar, 1998

Associate Professor, Miyazaki International College, Faculty of Comparative Culture
Apr, 1996 - Jan, 1997

JSPS Research Fellow at ICU, JSPS Research Fellow
Jan, 1988 - Mar, 1996

Assistant Professor, Senior Researcher, University of Tampere, Finland

Education

Committee Memberships

1994 - 1999

会長, Nordic Association of Japanese and Korean Studies

Papers

Ideological Construction of Environment and Its Relationship With Japanese Society, Culture, and Politics

Mika MERVIO

International Journal of Public and Private Perspectives on Healthcare, Culture, and the Environment, 2(1) 59-68, Apr, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Editorial Preface (Inaugual Issue)

Mika MERVIO

International Journal of Public and Private Perspectives on Healthcare, Culture, and the Environment (IJPPPHCE), 1(1) iv-vi, Feb, 2017
Risk Society and the Hybris of Modern Japanese State/Society

MERVIO Mika Markus

International Journal of Public and Private Healthcare Management and Economics, Vol. 1(Issue 4) 14-26, Dec, 2011 Peer-reviewed
Guest editorial preface: Phoenix Rising from Ashes? The Year Zero in Japan and the Future of East Asian Social Models

MERVIO Mika Markus

International Journal of Public and Private Healthcare Management and Economics, Vol. 1(Issue 4) i-iii, Dec, 2011 Invited
Japanese environmental history: narratives of sustainability

Journal of the Institute of International Sociology, (18) 83-117, 2010
Anthropocentric Ideology and Politics:Critical Remarks on the Anthropocentric Approach to Nature and Avian Fauna in Japan

Comparative culture,the journal of Miyazaki International College, (5) 68-93, 1999
Internationalisation of Japanese and Finnish Higher Education

Comparative culture,the journal of Miyazaki International College, (4) 110-125, 1998
Japanese Traditions and Globalisation:Transformation,Collision Course or Co-existence

Comparative culture,the journal of Miyazaki International College, (4) 44-67, 1998
The mythical construction of tradition and contemporary Japanese international relations - Ideology, racism and nationalism permeating the relations between Japan and other societies

M Mervio

JAPAN AND KOREA: CONTEMPORARY STUDIES, 220-251, 1997
Politics and Society in the Nordic Countries:Redefining Ideologies and Identities in the 1990s

Comparative culture,the journal of Miyazaki International College, (3) 29-51, 1997

Misc.

Reflections on glocal culture in Kibi area

Mika MERVIO

Newletter of the Okayama Cultural Foundation, (12) 13-13, Oct, 2016 Invited

Books and Other Publications

Interdisciplinary Studies on Healthcare, Culture, and the Environment (Advances in Public Policy and Administration)

Merviö Mika Markus (Role: Joint author, Editor；Preface; Chapter 16 Art and Environment Seen Through the Lens of Politics in Japan (pp. 263-278)；Chapter 17 Japanese Visual Arts: Representation and Perfectioning of Reality – Mimesis and Understanding of Japanese Visual Arts (pp. 279-302))

IGI-Global, Feb 18, 2022 (ISBN: 1799889963)
Global issues and innovative solutions in healthcare, culture, and the environment

Mervio, Mika Markus

IGI Global, Information Science Reference, Jun, 2020 (ISBN: 9781799835769) Peer-reviewed
Recent Social, Environmental, and Cultural Issues in East Asian Societies

Mika Mervio, et al. (Role: Joint author, Chap. 4 Interpretation and Reconstruction of Environment, Aesthetics, and Politics in Japan; Chap. 15 Social Risk Discourse and Japan: The State of Reflexivity and Individualization)

IGI-Global, Nov, 2019
Lähellä – kaukana: 100 vuotta suomalais-japanilaisia suhteita

Saunavaara, Juha (Role: Contributor, Chapter 5 Kuvataiteiden yhteiskunnallinen merkitys ja yhteys moderniin valtioon Japanissa ja Suomessa (The signigicance of paitings for modern state in Japan and Finland))

Edita, May, 2019
International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies

Hebert, David G (Role: Joint author, Animals and Aesthetics in Japanese Art and Society" (Chapter 17))

Springer, Mar, 2018
Finland - A diary of life and childcare

Fujii Niemelä Midori, Takahashi Mutsuko, Mika MERVIO (Role: Contributor, Part Thee: Finland today, the past and future)

Kamogawa Shuppan, Jul, 2017
Management and Participation in the Public Sphere

Mika MERVIO (Role: Editor, Editor, 399 pages (Preface xiii-xviii))

IGI International, USA, Apr, 2015
Contemporary Social Issues in East Asian Societies: Examining the Spectrum of Public and Private Spheres

MERVIÖ Mika Markus (Role: Editor)

I-Global, USA, Jan, 2014
Book chapter "The Japanese Model of Risk Society: Challenges to japanese Public Policy", Mika Merviö (ed.) Contemporary Social Issues in East Asian Societies

Mika MERVIO

I-Global, USA, Jan, 2014
Book chapter "Spectrum of Public and Private Spheres in East Asia: Theoretical Inspirations from Past and Present", Mika Merviö (ed.) Contemporary Social Issues in East Asian Societies

Mika MERVIO

I-Global, USA, Jan, 2014
Book chapter ”Ecodemics: Analysing the history of facing and mediating the risks from the wild”, Ts’ui-jung Liu (ed.) Resources Utilizations and their Impacts: Studies of East Asian Environmental History

MERVIO Mika Markus (Role: Joint author)

Routledge, Aug, 2013
Healthcare Management and Economics: Perspectives on Public and Private Administration

MERVIÖ Mika Markus (Role: Editor, Editor & author, preface xii-xxi)

Medical Information Science Reference, Apr, 2013
Book chapter “Exploring the Meaning of Fountains in Japan”, Water Fountains in the Cityscape, Ari Hynynen, Petri S. Juuti and Tapio S. Katko (eds), Essays in Public Works History

MERVIO Mika Markus (Role: Joint author, pp. 14-26)

American Public Works Association. Kansas City, Aug, 2011
Book chapter "“Finnish Environment and Foreign Policy: Supranationalism, Pragmatism and Consensus Building”, Environmental Change and Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice, Paul G. Harris (ed)

MERVIO Mika Markus (Role: Joint author, pp. 121-135)

Routledge, Jun, 2009
Book chapter "Water Security in Northeast Asia: Coping with Global Water Issues", in The Environmental Dimension of Asian Security. Conflict and Cooperation over Energy, Resources, and Pollution

MERVIO Mika Markus (Role: Joint author)

United States Institute of Peace Press, Oct, 2007
Book chapter “The Environment and Japanese Foreign Policy: Anthropocentric Ideologies and Changing Power Relationships”, Confronting Environmental Change: Eco-Politics and Foreign Policy in East and Southeast Asia, Paul G Harris & Judith Shapiro (eds)

MERVIO Mika Markus (Role: Joint author, pp. 41-56)

Earthscan and the United Nations Press, Sep, 2005
Book chapter "Koreans in Japan and Shimane", in: Crossing National Borders: International Migration Issues in Northeast Asia

United Nations Univer-sity Press, 2005
Book chapter "The Environment and Japanese Foreign Policy: Anthropocentric Ideologies and Changing Power Relationships", in: Confronting Environmental Change: Eco-Politics and Foreign Policy in East and Southeast Asia

Earthscan, 2005
Book Chapter"Social Structure of Japan", in : The Japan Handbook

Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, UK, 1998
Book chapter "The Mythical Construction of Traditional and Contemporary Japanese International Relations", in: Japan and Korea. Contemporary Studies

Aarhus University Press, Denmark, 1997

Presentations

"Art and environment seen through the lens of politics in Japan"

Merviö, Mika Markus

The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12), Aug 25, 2022
“Politicization of the environment and art in Japan”

Merviö, Mika Markus

The 6th Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH2021), Aug 8, 2022
“Digital Narratives in the Quest for Sustainable Futures”

Mervio, Mika Markus

The 3rd KLASICA Taipei Symposium, Online workshop via Zoom, Oct 26, 2020
Panel on Politics and the Environment

Mika Mervio, et al.

International Workshop "Transdisciplinary Approaches to Good Governance" CSEAS, Kyoto University, Feb 8, 2020 Invited
Visual arts and environment: Conceptualizing and visualizing nature, politics and environment in Japan

Mika Mervio

ISESEA-7 7th International Symposium on Environmental Sociology in East Asia, Seoul National University, Oct 26, 2019
Inequality, sustainability, political participation and visual arts

Mika MERVIO

Klasica Symposium, Taiwan National University, Sep 30, 2018
Environmental thinking and ideological construction of environment in Japanese society

Mika MERVIO

National Taiwan University, Oct 21, 2017
NAJAKS Roundtable session

Mika MERVIO

NAJAKS （Nordic Association of Japanese and Korean Studies), Stockholm University, Aug 19, 2016 Invited
Japanese public policy for family in transition

Mika MERVIO

NAJAKS, Aug 18, 2016
Disasters, Risks and Sustainable Communities: comparison of European and Japanese approaches to Risk

Mika MERVIO

5th International Symposium on Environmental Sociology in East Asia (ISESEA5), Sendai, Oct 30, 2015
Environmental aesthetics in Japanese art traditions and Japanese society. Chances in Japanese tradition of visual arts concerning nature and animals

Mika MERVIO

The Third Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH 2015), Takamatsu, Kagawa, Oct 24, 2015
International cooperation to alleviate water security issues in East Asia: an analysis of goals, options and prospects

Mika MERVIO

International Conference on the Water Crisis in the Asia-Pacific Region, at Kagawa University, Feb 12, 2015
Ethical, cultural and historical analysis of power relationships: the case of domestic violence through times

Mika MERVIO

4th International Power Conference “Power, Culture & Economy” held in Tampere, Finland, on 25–27 August 2014, Aug 27, 2014
Japanese Artistic Traditions: Mimêsis, Politeia and Re-interpretation

Mika MERVIO

XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Jul 17, 2014
Japanese risk society: the changing policies and the role of families

Mika MERVIO

XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Jul 15, 2014
Animals and animal aesthetics in Japanese art traditions and Japanese society

Mika MERVIO

The 25th Anniversary Conference of the Nordic Association of Japanese and Korean Studies, University of Bergen, Norway, Aug 23, 2013
"The Re-presentation of Japanese Society and Culture: Japanese Visual Arts and the mimēsis of the World"

MERVIÖ Mika Markus

2013 ASPAC Conference, Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA, Jun 9, 2013 Invited
Water and Risk Society: Water Management and Historical Understanding of Water in Japan

MERVIO Mika Markus

The 2nd International WEPA Forum: International Forum on Water Environmental Governance in Asia, Dec, 2007

Teaching Experience

Professional Memberships

Apr, 1994 - Mar, 2004

European Association for Japanses Studies
環境社会学会
日本政治学会
日本国際政治学会
Nordic Association of Japanese and Korean Studies

Research Projects

エコデミクス:鳥類と人間社会のグローバル・リスク

科学研究費補助金(挑戦的萌芽研究), 挑戦的萌芽研究, 文部科学省, 2009 - 2010

MERVIOMIka
SOCial Justice in Northeast Asia : in the Search for Fair Governance

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(B)), 基盤研究(B), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 2007 - 2009

Mika MERVIO, 高橋睦子, 林裕明, DAVISScott, 北尾邦伸, VOSSEWilhelm, Kuninobu KITAO, Mutsuko TAICAHASH, Scott DAVIS, Hiroaki HAYASHI, William VOSSE
Risk Regimes in Northeast Asia

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(B)), 基盤研究(B), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 2004 - 2006

Mika MERVIO, アラムムハメッド, 高橋睦子, 林裕明, 長谷川治清, スティールウイリアムM, マーハジョン C, ディビススコット
Formation and development of "green welfare state": analyzing the case of Finland

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(B)), 基盤研究(B), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 2003 - 2006

Mutsuko TAKAHASHI, MERVIOMika
北東アジアのリスク・レジーム

科学研究費補助金(基盤研究(C)), 基盤研究(C), 文部科学省, 2003 - 2003

MervioM・M, マーハジョンC, スティールウイリアムM, 高橋睦子, ディビススコット, アラムモハメッド
野鳥保護運動からみた人間中心主義
自然保護と環境問題の国際関係論
Critical assessment of an opocentrism from the perspective of protection of avian fauna
The Nature Conservation and Environmental Issues in Interational Relations
Japan's internationalization ,globalization and international relations