Associate Professor FUJIHARA, Tatsushi
Associate Professor FUJIHARA, Tatsushi
- Academic Degree
- Ph.D. in Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
- Expertise
- Agricultural history
- Research Theme
- Intellectual history of food, history of the kitchen, history of agricultural machinery
Reconstructing agricultural history
To date, agricultural history has generally considered power relationships between people. My research is an attempt to reconstruct agricultural history from three-sided exchanges of material and currency between people, groups, and the environment. Alongside adopting the recently developed methods of environmental history, I hope to devise an analytical framework for discussion of various food-related matters along the same axis, taking matters that might appear to be in different fields and repositioning them on the same plane. This might include, for example, kitchens and farms (space), refrigerators and agricultural machinery (technology), detergent and agrochemicals (chemistry), and wartime and peacetime (time). This research should provide valuable hints for reconsidering a range of contemporary problems related to food consumption and production, including famine, poverty, food quality decline, food fraud, and farmer suicide.