Hokkaido Dairy Farm
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Hokkaido Dairy Farm

Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
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Hokkaido Dairy Farm

Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan

About this book

Argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of frontiers.

Hokkaido Dairy Farm offers a historical and ethnographic examination of the rapid industrialization of the dairy industry in Tokachi, Hokkaido. It begins with a history of dairy farming and consumption in Hokkaido from a macro perspective, mapping the transition from survival to subsistence and then from mixed family farms to monoculture and "mega" industrial operations. It then narrows the focus to examine concrete changes in a Tokachi-area dairying community that has undergone rapid sociocultural upheaval over the last three decades, with shifts in human relationships alongside changes in human and cow connections through new technologies. In the final chapters, the scope is further narrowed to a detailed history and ethnography of a single industrializing dairy farm and the morphing cast of individuals attached to it, centering on their idiosyncratic searches for economic, social, and even ontological security in what is popularly considered a peripheral region and industry. The culmination of over fifteen years of ethnographic, policy, and historical research, Hokkaido Dairy Farm argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of frontiers.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter One A Conceptual Scaffolding
  9. Chapter Two Toward Modernity: The Forming and Reforming of a Northern Frontier
  10. Chapter Three From Traction to Teishoku: Tracing the Human-Bovine Trajectory
  11. Chapter Four Problems Protecting the Japanese Dairy Industry
  12. Chapter Five Farm Structures
  13. Chapter Six The Birth of Grand Hopes
  14. Chapter Seven Dairy Farmers: Being, Becoming, and Making
  15. Chapter Eight From Teat to Tot: Following Flows
  16. Chapter Nine Producing and Pumping
  17. Chapter Ten Keeping It All Working
  18. Chapter Eleven Locals, Lo-siders, Outsiders, and No-siders
  19. Chapter Twelve Assembling Communities: Two Genders and One Religion
  20. Conclusion On the Frontiers of Animal-Human-Technology
  21. Epilogue
  22. Notes
  23. References
  24. Index
  25. Back Cover