selected scholarly activity
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chapters
- Relationships that matter. 282-289. 2019
- Embodied Relationality Beyond “Nature” vs “Nurture”: Materializing Absent Kinships in Japanese Child Welfare. 153-178. 2019
- Making the oral contraceptive “for me” in Japan: Managing the semiotics of reproductive health in virtual space. 129-148. 2012
- Making the oral contraceptive "for me" in Japan: Managing the semiotics of reproductive health in virtual space. 129-148. 2010
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journal articles
- Nuclear ghost: Atomic livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone By Ryo Morimoto, Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2023. 339 pp.. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 2024
- Parental Rights and the Temporality of Attachment: Law, Kinship, and Child Welfare in Japan. Positions. 29:469-493. 2021
- Plasticity and Pathology: On the Formation of the Neural Subject. David Bates Nima Bassiri, New York: Fordham University Press, 2016, 368pp.. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 31:na-na. 2017
- Family at the Margins: State, Welfare and Well-being in Japan. Japanese Studies. 36:151-154. 2016
- ‘Self-Responsibility’ and the Politics of Chance: Theorizing the Experience of Japanese Child Welfare. Japanese Studies. 36:173-189. 2016
- Introduction: (De)materializing Kinship—Holding Together Mutuality and Difference. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. 60:1-12. 2016
- ‘Coming to Look Alike’: Materializing Affinity in Japanese Foster and Adoptive Care. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. 60. 2016
- Developmental logics: Brain science, child welfare, and the ethics of engagement in Japan. Social Science and Medicine. 143:271-278. 2015
- The Japanese Family: Touch, Intimacy and Feeling. Social Science Japan Journal. 18:291-294. 2015