Division：Center for Southeast Asian Studies Professor
Main Research:Initiative 4 "Studies in the Potentialities of Local Culture, Institution and Technology"
Project Title：Mobility, Cultural Reproduction and Religious Dynamics along the Myanmar-Thai Border
Research Theme：
- Gender and Ethnicity
- Religious dynamics among minorities in Myanmar and Thailand
- Rethinking "family" in the Southeast Asian context
References：
- Gender and Modernity in Asia and the Pacific. Kyoto University Press & Trans-Pacific Press. 2003
- Between Hills and Plains: Power and Practice in Socio-Religious Dynamics among Karen. Kyoto and Melbourne: Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press. 385p. 2004
2007 G-COE Research Outcome:
- Hayami, Yoko 2008 Changing “Families” in Southeast Asia: Loose Framework, Questions and Topics. In Proceedings for the Core University Program Seminar Private Faces of Power and Institutions in Southeast Asia, Vol.2, pp.1-13.
- Hayami, Yoko 2008 “Family” and Cultural Reproduction in Mobility and Transience: Three Cases of Karen across the Border. In Proceedings for the Core University Program Seminar Private Faces of Power and Institutions in Southeast Asia, Vol.2, pp.22-29.
List of Academic Presentations during 2007:
- Hayami, Yoko (organized panel) Families in Flux: Southeast Asian Families Across Borders and Categories. At the 5th International Convention of Asian Scholars, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. August 2nd, 2007.
- Hayami, Yoko More or Less Buddhist? Sectarian Religious Practices in Karen State, Burma. In the panel titled Paths Taken and Not Taken in the Anthropology of Buddhism: Assessment of the Field and Current Directions of Research. 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington D.C. December 1.
- Hayami, Yoko Seeds and Taboos: Cultural Reproduction and Domestic Networks among Karen in Bago Mountains, Burma. In the International Workshop on Local Knowledge and Its Positive Practice. Addis Ababa, Ras Amba Hotel. February 14th, 2008.
2008 G-COE Research Outcome:
- Hayami, Yoko Pagodas and Wedding Vows: Buddhist and Sectarian Practices in Karen State. Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies No.8, G-COE Series 6. 2008 Oct.
- Hayami, Yoko ” Relatedness and Reproduction in Rethinking “Families” in Southeast Asia: (with case studies from three Karen settings)” In Proceedings of the The Making of East Asia: from both macro and micro perspectives(Volume 2) PROJECT 8: Changing “Families” Kyoto, March 2009 pp.72-95.
List of Academic Presentations during 2008:
- Hayami, Yoko ” Relatedness and Reproduction in Rethinking “Families” in Southeast Asia: (with case studies from three Karen settings)” In the final workshop of the CORE University Project. The Making of East Asia: from both macro and micro perspectives Kyoto, February 23, 2009
2009 G-COE Research Outcome:
- Hayami, Yoko 2009” Relatedness and Reproduction in Rethinking “Families” in Southeast Asia: (with case studies from three Karen settings)” In Proceedings of the The Making of East Asia: from both macro and micro perspectives(Volume 2) PROJECT 8: Changing “Families” Kyoto March 2009 pp.72-95.
List of Academic Presentations during 2009:
- Hayami, Yoko June 19,2009 ”Social and Cultural Practices among Labor Migrants in the Thai-Myanmar Borderland” The First KASEAS-CSEAS Joint International Symposium, “Interdependency of Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia: Migration, Investment, and Cultural Flow”18-20 June 2009 Gyeongsang National University, Jinju
- Hayami,Yoko September 10, 2009 ”Gender and Changing Families in Southeast Asia” The 33rd Southeast Asian Seminar on “Region” and Regional Perspectives on/from Southeast Asia. CSEAS, Kyoto University September 7-11.
- Hayami, Yoko September 14, 2009 “The Present and Future of Area Studies in Asia: From Perspectives on Gender and Family JASSO International University Exchange Seminar, Kyoto Field School, ASAFAS, Kyoto University September 11-24, 2009
- Hayami, Yoko October 28, 2009 “Asian Connections as both Subjects and Tools for Fruitful Collaborative Research” CAPAS-CSEAS 2009 International Symposium on Maritime Links and Trans-nationalism in Southeast Asia: Past and Present. CAPAS, Academia Sinica Taiwan.
- Hayami, Yoko March 3, 2010 “Reality or Mirage? Family in Southeast Asian Society” paper given at the International Workshop on Southeast Asia, “Reigions”, and Social Theory. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 3-4.
2010 Research Outcome:
- Hayami, Yoko“Pagodas and Prophets: Contesting Sacred Space and Power among Buddhist Karen in Karen State” Journal of Asian Studies. Vol.70 No.3. 2011 （refereed)
- Hayami, Yoko Review of Ashley South. Ethnic Politics in Burma: States of Conflict. Oxfordshire: Routledge. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.
- Hayami, Yoko “Burmese Migrants to Thailand: Vignettes from the Border as In-Between Space” CSEAS Newsletter. No.63. 2011.21-22.
List of Academic Presentations during 2010:
- Hayami、Yoko ”Upland vs. Lowland as Seen through Gender: Distant Representations and Immediate Relationships”JSPS Asian Core Workshop: International Seminar on Radically Envisioning a Different Southeast Asia: From a Non-State Perspective, 19 Janurary 2011, Inamori Foundation Hall, Kyoto University
- Hayami, Yoko “From the Intimate Sphere to the Public Sphere in Southeast Asia.”Research Conference “Asian Connections : Southeast Asian Model for Co-Existence in the 21st Century”Asian Core University Program of Thammasat University. Royal River Hotel , Bangkok Thailand, 27 August 2010
2011 G-COE Research Outcome:
- Hayami, Yoko, J. Koizumi, Chalidaporn Songsamphan and Ratana Tosakul (Eds.) In press (March 2012). Families in Flux in Southeast Asia: Institution, Ideology and Practice. Silkworm Press and Kyoto University Press.
- Hayami, Yoko 2011 Review of Ashley South. Ethnic Politics in Burma: States of Conflict. Oxfordshire: Routledge. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. Vol. 42, No.3: 554-6.
List of Academic Presentations during 2011:
- Hayami, Yoko “Multi-Laterality and the Changing Global Mapping of Southeast Asian Studies: a view from Japan” CAPAS-CSEAS Workshop for Young Scholars of Southeast Asian Area Studies EXPLORING FRONTIERS OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN AREA STUDIES: ASIAN PERSPECTIVES Taiwan Academia Sinica, 9 Auctober 2011
- Hayami, Yoko International Conference for Thai Studies” Pagodas and Wedding Vows: Religious Practices among Buddhist Pwo Karen in Karen State from a Comparative Perspective” Bangkok. 26 September 2011