Curriculum Vitae for Hideo Nakazawa

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affiliation

Professor of Political Sociology
Faculty of Law, Chuo University, JAPAN
office: 742-1 Higashi-nakano, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0393 JAPAN
Tel: +81 42 674 3149
e-mail: info@nakazawa-lab.net

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Mar 1994 Graduated Faculty of Letters (Sociology), University of Tokyo
Apr 1994 Entered Graduate school of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo
Mar 2001 Obtained Ph.D degree (Sociology) from University of Tokyo
Apr 2000 Lecturer at Sapporo Gakuin University, Japan
Oct 2003 Associate Professor at Chiba University, Japan
Sep 2006 to Aug 2007 Visiting Research Fellow at SSPSSR, University of Kent, UK
Apr 2009 Professor at Chuo University, Tokyo

Research Interests

Quantitative and qualitative analysis of grass-roots social movements in Japan from 1960s to present
Urban and regional movements for sustainable development in Japan
Analysis of Greater Tokyo which seems to approaching to the "Dual City"
Theories, practices, and comparison for regeneration of former coalfields
Post-tunami local regeneration practices at Sanriku coastal cities after the 3.11

Recent publications

Papers in English

September 2019, Hideo Nakazawa, "Miners’Diaspora and Politicized 'Heritage': After Forgotten Coal in Japan",The Chuo Law Review,126(5・6): 1-24.
August 2017,Hideo Nakazawa, "Suburban/Hinterland Aging in Japan and Types of Policy/Civic Reactions: Area Management, Relocation, or Contraction?", Korean Regional Sociology, 18(2): 293-317.
National Development Policy and Regional-Community Studies in a Postwar Japanese Context, H.Nakazawa, JARCS(Japanese Association of Regional and Community Studies) An online article on the JARCS official website.
Tokyo’s "Urban Regeneration" as the Promoter of Spatial Differentiation: Growth Coalition, Opposing Movement and Demographic Change, H.Nakazawa, The Chuo Law Review,121(3・4): 1-31 (2014)
Aged Newtown Problems on Greater Tokyo Outskirts: Several Strategies against the Compressed Cycle of Urban Decline, H.NAKAZAWA, The Chuo Law Review,120(3・4): 1-29 (2013)
Japan's Coalfields in Context: Undermining the Miracle, Challenging the Obliteration, H.NAKAZAWA, The Chuo Law Review,119(1・2): 1-25 (2012)
Between the Global Environmental Regime and Local Sustainability: A local review of inclusion, failure and reinventing process of environmental governance, NAKAZAWA, H., International Journal of Japanese Sociology, 15: 52-69. (2006）

Web Articles in English

"Reconstruction Stuck at the Recovery Level", a Yomiuri Online article, 22 July 2013.
"What the Sanriku disaster area needs now: Challenges made by students as outsiders", a Yomiuri Online article, 25 Feb 2013 (Co-written with M.Tanishita, K.Sakisaka, Y.Komuro, G.Murai).
"Legal issues in disaster reconstruction seen from cases on the Sanriku Coast", a Yomiuri Online article, 11 and 18 Oct 2012.
Disaster Area Volunteers from Chuo University: Winter Volunteer Report: Surpassing introductory theory to realize continuing activities a Yomiuri Online article, 9 Feb 2012 (Co-written with H.Suzuki, Y.Tsuru, Y.Komuro, Y.Miyamaru).

Presentations in English

11th July 2019, Hideo Nakazawa, "The Unmaking of Japanese Working Class: Compressed Rise and Decline of Miners' Union, 1902-2004", paper presented at a workshop "New Directions in Coal Mining History and Heritage in the UK and Japan: ESRC/AHRC SSH International Networking Grant", Sheffield University, UK.
18th May 2018, Hideo Nakazawa, "Between Cultural Politics and Collective Memory in the Attempt for Coalfield Regeneration Discussions on East Asian Context" paper presented at Korean Association for Cultural Economics , Seoul. (Invited Plenary Speech)
23rd Feb 2018, Hideo Nakazawa, "Miners’ Diaspora and Politicized 'Heritage': After Forgotten Coal in Japan", paper presented at "Symposium on Post-industrial Culture and Society in Wales, Appalachia and Japan",Organised by the Raymond Williams Society of Japan, Japan Women's University, Tokyo.
8th December 2016, Hideo Nakazawa, "Suburban/Hinterland Aging in Japan and Types of Policy/Civic Reactions: Area Management, Relocation, or Contraction?", paper presented at an international workshop titled as: 'Global Social Challenges and the Educational Missions of Social Economy: Sharing Experiences among Countries', Hallym Unviersity, Chuncheon, Korea(invited speech).
10th May 2014, Hideo Nakazawa, "Betrayed Revitalization on Sanriku Coast after Three Years", a plenary speech at Japanese Association of Language Teachers (JALT) PanSIG conference 2014, Miyazaki Municipal University (invited plenary speech).
3rd May 2013, Hideo Nakazawa, "Former Coalfield Regeneration: Japan's Case and Some Thoughts towards East Asian Comparison", Korean Association of Regional Sociology Annual Congress, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. (Invited plenary speech)
9th July 2011, Hideo Nakazawa, "Aged Newtown Problems on Greater Tokyo Outskirts: How Can Policymakers and Movements Cope with Compressed Cycle of Urban Growth and Decline", ISA RC-21 annual conference"The Struggle to Belong", 7-9th April, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
16th April 2011, Hideo Nakazawa, "Japan's Coalfields in Context: Undermining the Miracle, Challenging the obliteration", paper presented in the Symposium "Heritages of Mines and Mining", 13-16th April, University of Innsbruck, Austlia.
9th March 2011, Hideo Nakazawa, "Japan's Coalfields in Comparative Context: Geography, History and Regeneration", paper presented in the Symposium "Comparing Coalfields between Britain and Japan", 9-10th Mar, University of Wales Gregynog Hall, UK.
September 2009, Hideo Nakazawa, "Japan's Coalfields in Context: The decline of coal industry, labour movements and mining municipalities in Japan", paper presented in the Symposium "Regenerating the Coalfields", 10-11th Sep, Swansea University, UK.
September 2007, Hideo Nakazawa, Tokyo's "Urban Regeneration" as the Final Phase of Spatial Transformation, ISA-RC21 Annual Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
April 2007 Hideo Nakazawa "The inner city urban regeneration in Tokyo compared to London: growth coalition, gentrification and potential impact to inequality?" British Sociological Association Annual Conference (University of East London, London)
July 2002　Nakazawa, H., N. Mikami, K. Ohori, A. Terada, Is Local Environmental Governance Possible: The case of Kamakura city, 51st International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, Australia．

Recent Books and Book Chapers (in Japanese, excerpted)

Coalmining and the Japanese Miracle, co-edited with Naoko Shimazaki, Seikyusha. (2018)
"Center and Periphery" in E. Oguma (ed.) History of Heisei, Kawade Shobo Shinsha Publishing. (2013)
Environment and Socety, co-written with R.Seki, Y.Maruyama and M.Tanaka. Yuhikaku Publishing. (2009)
Social Movements for Referendum against Regime Politics: Radical Democracy in Maki town, 1994-2004. NAKAZAWA, H. Harvest-sha Publishing, Tokyo. 334p. (2005)

Received Overseas Post-doc Students

2008-2009 Olivier Ejderyan (From Zurich University, Switzerland) at Chiba Unviersity. Olivier is now a Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Other Academic Contributions

Gave feedback to the draft of Greg Clark&Tim Moonen's "World Cities and Nation States" Project

Membership of External Bodies

Japan Association for Regional and Community Studies (JARCS): Board Member 2002-2006/2008-2012/2014-2018. Chair of Research Committee 2010-2012, Editor in chief 2014-2016.
Japan Sociological Society (JSS): Research Committee Member 2013-2016. Editorial Committee Member of IJJS(International Journal of Japanese Socilogy) 2019-2021.
Japan Association of Urban Sociology (JAUS): Editorial Committee Member 2006-2008.
Japanese Association of Environmental Sociology (JAES): Research Committee Member 2004-2006.

Awards

Japan Association of Urban Sociology 1st young scholars award: 15 Sep 2006
Tokyo Institute of Municipal Research 32nd Fujita award: 19 Sep 2006
Japan Sociological Soceity 5th award: 28 Oct 2006

Most of my work has been written in Japanese. To see my full work list, see Japanese Page.