春雨直播app

春雨直播app Center for Contemporary Japanese Studies (TCJS) Book Talk Series

This seminar will be held in Japanese.

<Title>
"Sociology of the Intimate and Public Spheres: Beyond the 20th-century Care Regime"

<Speaker>

Emiko OCHIAI 
Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Kyoto Sangyo University
Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University

<Moderator>
Sawako SHIRAHASE
Director of TCJS

<Abstract>
Neither life nor care have been treated properly either in society, or in the social sciences, which are akin to self-portraits of the former. This has been the author’s core research concern for more than twenty years. The author’s most recent book proposes a framework to integrate life and care into social theory by combining historical, demographical and Asian perspectives. The author’s key concepts are the “familialization of care” and the “defamilialization of care”: these occurred at the beginning and end, respectively, of the “short 20th century” in Europe and North America when the “20th-century system of social reproduction” had become firmly established. The lecture will focus on the applicability of the theory of the familialization/defamilialization of care in Asian compressed modernities amid salient gender role changes and fertility decline.

<About Speaker>
OCHIAI Emiko（落合恵美子）is Professor of Sociology at Kyoto Sangyo University and Emeritus Professor at Kyoto University. Her areas of interest are gender, family and welfare state. Her most recent books are Sociology of the Intimate and Public Spheres: Beyond the 20th-Century Care Regime (Yuhikaku, 2023, in Japanese 『親密圏と公共圏の社会学』), Japanizing Japanese Families: Regional Diversity and the Emergence of a National Family Model through the Eyes of Historical Demography, (co-editorship with Hirai Shoko, Brill, 2023, in English), Asian Families and Intimacies (4 vols., co-editorship with Patricia Uberoi, Sage, 2021, in English).





Emiko OCHIAI: Beyond the 20th-Century Care Regime (Yuhikaku, 2023)