Yusuke MATSUURA

Associate professor in Sociology (Ph.D.)
Faculty of Letters
Kumamoto University

2-40-1 Kurokami, Kumamoto city, Kumamoto, Japan 860-8555
Fax : 31-96-342-2853

Biography

He was born in Kyoto in 1973, graduated from Kyoto University in 1996, and finished a doctoral program at Kyoto University in 2001. In 2003, he became lecturer in Faculty of Letters in Kumamoto University and then associate professor since 2005. He received Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2004.

Works

His basic research interests are as follows

1. Global and Transnational Sociology
   Migration Studies： social and political inpacts of human migration and  reconfiguration of society in France and Japan　 　Decolonization and return migration in France
2. Cultural Sociology
   Sociology of Memory : memory of modernity appeared in forms of industrial heritage

Keywords

immigration, globalization, decolonization, social integration, memory, industrial heritage, modernity

Books

	Indeterminacy of Memory : A Sociological Investigation, Toshindo, 2005
	`Culture and Power`, Inoue & Hase(ed), Introduction to Cultural Sociology,Minerva shobo, 2010
	`Sociology of knowledge of Japanese modernity-Karatani Kojin's Origin of Japanese modern literature`, Inoue & Ito (ed) Basic Sociology(Shakaigaku basics), Sekaishisosha,2010
	`Who are Pieds-Noirs?-Historical formation of collective identity of repatriates from Algeria to France`, Araragi (ed), Retrial of "Manchukuo" and Japan : the history lived by "Chugoku-zanryu Mihonjin (Japanese remainder in China)" after W.W.Ⅱ, Benseishuppan, 2009
	`Republic of difference: Multiculturalism in France`, Ashida (ed) Tolerance and Publicness in plural society, Koyoshobou, 2007
	`Religion and Public Sphere in Contemporary France: Scarf Problem as an Inter-cultural Conflict`, Ito (ed), Modernity and the Otherness, Seibundo, 2006
	`A Form of Tolerance in the Age of Individualization : MURAKAMI Haruki and the Attitude toward the Other`, Imai (ed), MURAKAMI Haruki Studies, Wakakusa shobo,2005
	`Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism`, Tsutsui (ed), Frontiers in Historical Sociology, Jinbunshoin, 1997

Papers

• `Industrial heritage and globalisation of culture`, Annuaire de la Société japono-française de Sociologie, No.22, 2011
• `From social movements to urban riots : Evolution of collective actions in French suburbs`, Annuaire de la Société japono-française de Sociologie, No. 19. 2009
• `The Historical Formation of Pieds-Noirs : Collective identity of repatriates from Algeria to France`, Terada(ed), Acculturation dans les époques d'internationalization, L'Association d'études de l'acculturation & L'École post-universitaire des sciences sociales et culturelles, Université de Kumamoto, 2007 (in English)
• `Decolonization and Exile : Albert Camus as a pied-noir`, Becoming, No.18, 2006
• `Rise of National Front and Transformation of Social System`, Bungakubu Ronso (Kumamoto Journal of Culture and Humanities), No.65, 2005
• `Repeating Body : Memory and Life in FURUI Yoshikichi`, Kyoto Shakaigaku Nenpo (Kyoto Journal of Sociology), No.12, 2005
• `Forgetting and Laughter : Memory and Life in GOTO Meisei`, SOSHIOROJI (Sociology), No.146, 2003
• `Indeterminacy of Memory : Freud and Bergson`, Gendai Shakai Riron Kenkyu (Contemporary Social Theory Studies), No.12, 2002
• `Social Theory of Knowledge and Belief : in Les Formes Élémentaires de la Vie Religieuse`, Shakaigaku Hyoron (Japanese Sociological Review) No.51
• `Writing the Ordinary / Understanding the Other : A Life History of a Kenyan Student`, Kyoto University research group of foreign students(ed),Life Event : Overseas Education Narrated, 1999
• `Problems of Positivism : Epistemological critique and its ontological significance`, SOSHIOROJI (Sociology), No.134, 1999
• `Critical Point of Social Sciences`, Kyoto Shakaigaku Nenpo (Kyoto Journal of Sociology), No.4, 1996