Division：Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies Researcher/Center for the Study of Contemporary India Researcher, National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU)Researcher
Main Research: Initiative 4 "Studies in the Potentialities of Local Culture, Institution and Technology"
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Research Theme：
- Network of Indian Environmental Movement
- Gandhian Thinking and Practices in Contemporary India
References：
2007 G-COE Research Outcome：
- Shinya Ishizaka. 2007. “The Anti Tehri Dam Movement as a New Social Movement and Gandhism”, Journal of the Japanese Association for South Asian Studies, 18: 76-95.
- Shinya Ishizaka. 2007. “Leader-Follower Relations in the Foot Marches in Gandhian Environmental Movement in India”, Afrasia Working Paper, 20: 1-17.
List of Academic Presentations during 2007
- “An Introduction to Gandhian Social Movements in India Today”, International Symposium “The Significance of Cultural Exchange between Japan and India: What is Prosperity in the Global Age?”, International Christian University, Tokyo, June 2, 2007
- “Politics of ‘Sublimation’: The Gandhian Environmental Movement in Contemporary India”, The Eighth Meeting of Study Group on Societal Development, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, February 9, 2008
- “Politics of ‘Sublimation’: The Gandhian Environmental Movement in Contemporary India”, The International Symposium “Resources under Stress: Sustainability on the Local Community in Asia and Africa”, Ryukoku University, March 23, 2008
2008 G-COE Research Outcome：
- Yoshio Kawamura, Hisashi Nakamura, Shiro Sato, Aysun Uyar and Shinya Ishizaka (eds.). 2008. Resources under Stress: Sustainability on the Local Community in Asia and Africa, Afrasian Centre for Peace and Development Studies, Ryukoku University, 339p.
- Shinya Ishizaka. 2008. “Politics of ‘Sublimation’: The Gandhian Environmental Movement in Contemporary India”. In Yoshio Kawamura, Hisashi Nakamura, Shiro Sato, Aysun Uyar and Shinya Ishizaka (eds.), Resources under Stress: Sustainability on the Local Community in Asia and Africa, Afrasian Centre for Peace and Development Studies, Ryukoku University, pp. 145-155.
List of Academic Presentations during 2008：
2009 G-COE Research Outcome：
- Shinya Ishizaka. 2009. “What Has the Chipko Movement Brought about?: Forest Protection Movement and Environmentalist Network Formation in India”, Afrasia Working Paper, 52: 1-18.
List of Academic Presentations during 2009：
- “Rethinking Leader-Follower Relations in the Social Movement in India: An Analysis of Foot Marches in Gandhian Environmental Movements”, The Tenth Meeting of Study Group on Societal Development, Ryukoku University, July 14, 2009
- “Leader-Follower Relations in the Foot Marches in Gandhian Environmental Movements in India,” International Convention of Asia Scholars 6, Daejeon Convention Center, Korea, August 8, 2009
- “Gandhian Studies at the University Level in Japan Today”, Hind Swaraj Centenary International Conference, Surajkund, Delhi, India, November 19, 2009
2010 Research Outcome:
List of Academic Presentations during 2010:
2011 G-COE Research Outcome:
- Akio Tanabe, Kazuya Nakamizo, Shinya Ishizaka and Chie Fukuuchi (eds.), Development, Environment and Socio-political Transformation in South Asia: Diversity and Sustainable Humanosphere in Contemporary Dynamism.（in press）
List of Academic Presentations during 2011:
- Shinya Ishizaka, “Social Movements in Postcolonial India”, Joint Conference of the Association for the Asian Studies & International Convention of Asia Scholars 2011, April 2, 2011, Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, USA.
- Shinya Ishizaka, “The Environmental Movement in Postcolonial India: The Chipko Movement and “Connective Politics””, Joint Conference of the Association for the Asian Studies & International Convention of Asia Scholars 2011, April 2, 2011, Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, USA.
- Shinya Ishizaka, “The Ideology of “Environmentalism of the Poor” and After: An Attempt to Re-evaluate the Chipko (Forest Protection) Movement in India”, International Conference: Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship (Oecumene First Symposium: Citizenship after Orientalism), February 6, 2012, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. （予定）
- Shinya Ishizaka, “Ethicization of Gandhism?: Lage raho Munna bhai and Anna Hazare”, CSAS Open Research Seminar, February 23, 2012, Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. （予定）