Division：Center for Southeast Asian Studies Professor
Main Research:Initiative 4 "Studies in the Potentialities of Local Culture, Institution and Technology"
Project Title：Indigenous Peoples' Movements and Strategies to Secure their Living Spaces in the Globalizing World
Research Theme：
- Local Peoples' Initiated Movements for Reforestation, Cultural Revitalization and Socio-economic Development in Ifugao, Northern Luzon.
References：
- Shimizu Hiromu, 2003, Echoes of the Eruption: Culture, Development and NGOs in the Suffering and Rehabilitation of Pinatubo Aytas, Kyushu University Press. (in Japanese)
2007 G-COE Research Outcome:
- Shimizu Hiromu, 2007, "Throwing Pellets against the Center from a A Fringe Area: Idea and Practices of Dr. Nakamura and Peshawar-kai to Support Survibal Straggles of Afuganistan Refugees" in Matumoto Tsunehiko & A. Oshima (eds.) Autogenetic Thoughts of Kyushu , Hana Shoin, pp.111-166 (in Japanese)
- Shimizu Hiromu, 2007, "Making Culture Resources by Signifying Practices: Reforestation Movemment and Self-representaion in an Indigenous Ifugao Village," in Yamashita Shinji (ed.), /Cultures Become Resources/ , Koubundou, pp.123-150 (in Japanese)
- Shimizu Hiromu, 2008, "Suffering and Hope in a Disaster: Mt. Pinatubo Eruption in 1991 and Re-birth of an Indigenous Peoples Community" Urano Masaki, J. Oyane & T.Yoshikawa (ed.) /Introduction to Community Rehabilitation after a Disaster,/ Koubundou, pp. 179-184 (in Japanese)
List of Academic Presentations during 2007:
- Shimizu, Hiromu, "Paradise in Dream or for Real? Japanese Retirees Migrating to Southeast Asia," Session on “East Asia in Motion：A Comparative Perspective to Transnational Migration”, Annual Meeting of Japanese Anthropological Association, Nagoya University, 2nd June, 2007.
2009 G-COE Research Outcome:
- Hiromu Shimizu “The Blossoming of a Traveling Culture: Quilt-making on Caohagan Island, Philippines,” Yoshikawa Junko (ed.), Caohagan Quilts [1996-2009]: A Small Miracle of a Southern Island, Second, pp.113-119. October 2009
List of Academic Presentations during 2009:
- Hiromu Shimizu “Paradise in Dream or in Reality? Historical Perspectives on Japanese Retirees’ Migrating to the Philippines,” the International Symposium of Transnational Mobilities for Care: State, Market and Family Dynamics in Asia,” held at Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore, September 10-11, 2009.
2010 Research Outcome:
- Shimizu, Hiromu, “Refiguring Identities in an Ifugao Village: Sketches of Joint Projects from a Filipino Filmmaker, a Native Intellectual, and a Japanese Anthropologist under American Shadow(s)” in Kiichi FUJIWARA & Yoshiko NAGANO (eds.), The Philippines and Japan in Americas Shadow, Singapore: Singapore University Press, pp.282-306. March 2011
- Shimizu, Hiromu,“Grassroots Globalization of an Ifugao Village, Northern Philippines,” CSEAS News Letter, No.62, pp.4-6. Janurary 2011
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