{{div_begin align="right"}} {{html a,"href='http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/soc/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?page=%B0%CB%C6%A3%B2%C5%B9%E2' class='wikipage'",To Japanese Page}} {{div_end}} !!!ITO Hirotaka (Hirotaka Ito) {{img bali082402.JPG,"alt='Hirotaka Ito' border='1px' width='251px' height='216px'"}}Research Fellow at Tohoku University, and Visiting Research Fellow at Macau University (China) from 2007. From 2004 to 2006 I worked on my Ph.D. thesis with the title "Sociology of Place and Emergence in the Globalization Age", followed by another research project focused on the Asia's local communities. !! Current Research Interest *Re-constructing sociology in terms of social emergence in the globalizing age *Urban sociology of the dialectics of place/space *Area Studies on local ¡Æsocieties¡Ç of Pacific Rim Asia in the above perspective **''chonaikai'' in Japan, **''banjar/desa'' in Bali, **''kaifong'' in Macau and Hong Kong !!Anouncement *January 7, 2008, "Local Communities and Solidarities in Post-colonial City Macau," ''The Workshop On Social Inclusion, and Cultural Creativity'' (at Hong Kong Baptist University). !!Research Grants *2007-2009, Mizuho International Foundation: Overseas Student Scholarship Program *2007, Research Foundation for Safe Society: General Research Grant for Social Safety !!List of main publications !Papers in academic magazines and books *2008b, 'Organizational structure and function of Banjar: from the result of analysis of questionnaires,' Naoki Yoshihara ed., ''Advancing Global Tourism and The Changing of Local Communities'', Ochanomizushobo, pp361-412. (coauthored with N. Yoshihara et al., In Japanese) *2008a, 'Socio-cultural potential of neighborhood association in the era of post-development regime: from the case of tourism developed area in the south of Bali,' Naoki Yoshihara ed., ''Advancing Global Tourism and The Changing of Local Communities'', Ochanomizushobo, pp.167-248. (In Japanese) *2006g, 'The poverty or luxury of Urban Sociology,' ''The Study of Sociology'', 80. (In Japanese) *2006f, 'Politics of the Culture and Development in Bali: Towards Neo-traditional Local Governance,' ''The Study of Sociology'', 80. (Japanese) *2006e, 'Urban Involution,' ''Asia Yugaku'', 90, Bensey Press. (Japanese) *2006d, 'The Post-colonialism of Placeness in Macau's communities, kaifong,' ''Hestia & Clio'', 3: pp.76-97. (Japanese) *2006c, 'The Local in Global Complex Systems,' ''The Annal Reports of the Tohoku Sociological Society'', 35: pp.141-162. (Japanese) *2006b, 'Transformation of "the local" under "over-urbanization",' ''Annual of Japan Society for Urbanology'', 39: pp.91-102. (Japanese) *2006a, 'Contemporary phase of institutional representations of the "local": The case of the Yanagiu district in Sendai City,' ''Annual of Japan Association of Regional and Community Studies'', 18: pp.121-142, Harvest Press. (Japanese) *2005b, 'Community based organizations in the contemporary phase of local communalities: Chonai-societies of the Sendai City region,' ''Hestia & Clio'', 1: pp.58-83. (Japanese) *2005a, 'The organizational structure and function of Banjar: On reading results of a questionnaire,' ''The Annual Reports of Gradual School of Arts and Letters'', Tohoku University, Vol.LIV: 146-184.(Japanese) *2004, 'The historical phase of local governance concerning Development: In the case of Nagamachi, a Secondary Centre of Snedai,' ''Sendai Urban Studies'', vol.4: 41-57.(Japanese) !Essays *2007, 'Neighborhood Council,' in K. Hashimoto, H. Fujita and N. Yoshihara (eds.), ''The World's Urban Social Plannings 2'', Toshindo. (in Japanese) *2004, 'Ganshu Culture,' in Tohoku Association on Urbanology (ed.), ''Dictionary of Tohoku Cities'', pp.81-2, Sendai Kyodo Insatsu. (in Japanese) !Translations *forthcoming, John Urry, ''Global Complexity'' (2003, Polity). (English to Japanese, co-translation, Hosei University Press) *forthcoming, Carol Warren, ''Adat and Dinas: Balinese Communities in the Indonesian State'' (1993, Oxford University Press). (English to Japanese, co-translation, Hosei University Press) *2006b, Yayasan Pembangunan Sanur, ''Hasil Muker III Yayasan Pembangunan Sanur Tahun 2000'' (2000). (Bahasa Indonesia to Japanese, N. Yoshihara ed., ''Progress of urbanization and community organization in Bali, Indonesia'', MEXT Report on Results of Research Project, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, pp.106-119. *2006a, John Urry, ''Sociology beyond Societies'' (2000, Routledge). (English to Japanese, co-translation, Hosei University Press) !International Conference Presentation *January 7, 2008, "Local Communities and Solidarities in Post-colonial City Macau," ''The Workshop On Social Inclusion, and Cultural Creativity'' (at Hong Kong Baptist University). *August 22, 2007, "Chounaikai dan Banjar: Studi Komparatif Organisasi Masyarakat di Jepang dan di Bali," ''Konferensi Pertama Bagian Pendidikan Jepang'' (at Fakultas Bahasa dan Sastra, Ganesha Universitas Pendidikan, Bali, Indonesia) !!Contact *[E-mail, Telephone|http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/~ito/contact.html] - in personal website !!Links *[Re-assembling Bordered Asias|http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/~ito/]¡¡- personal website *[Chonaikai now|http://itohiro.blog42.fc2.com/] - Blog (in Japanese) *[Adat and Dinas@Wiki|http://www21.atwiki.jp/adatanddinas/] - workplace of translation #1 *[Global Complexities wiki*|http://wikiwiki.jp/urry2007/] - workplace of translation #2 *[University of Macau|http://www.umac.mo/] !!Research Category {{category Urban Sociology}}