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Fukunaga Lab
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The lab revisits the relationship between people and nature as a question of ethics, grounded in fieldwork.
AboutAbout the lab
Rethinking how people relate to nature, starting from the field.
The Fukunaga Lab studies the relationship between people and nature from the perspectives of environmental sociology and environmental ethics.
Drawing on sociological fieldwork, the lab traces the memories, words, and practices that connect people and nature, clarifies the values and norms found there, and re-examines how society is structured.
Its themes include the design of environmental restoration, food ethics, the governance of watershed and coastal resources in the age of the climate crisis, and the history of relationships between living things and people.
The lab places importance on the question of what kind of beings humans are as they live alongside other living things.
Key terms
- Environmental ethics
- A field of study that considers how people should relate to nature and other living things, in terms of values and what is right
- Fieldwork
- A research method in which researchers actually go to the region or site being studied and investigate by listening to and observing people
- Governance
- A system in which resources and regions are managed and decided on with the involvement of many people, such as residents, not just government
NewsLab news
Information sessions on admission to the Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies held at Kashiwa Campus (10/23 and 10/24)
Launched the "Friends of the Bigfin Reef Squid" project for satoumi (coastal sea) restoration on Notojima
ResearchResearch themes
Human activity has now changed the workings of the Earth itself, and the lab asks anew how people and nature should coexist. Based on fieldwork on site, it considers environmental ethics using the methods of environmental sociology.
*Illustrative imageExploring a world of living together with other living things
As efforts to build a sustainable society by combining new science and technology with markets advance, the lab asks which of the multiple "natures" people will engage with, and what kind of world they will create in which they live together with which living things. It explores the ethics needed to seek answers, and aims to put them into practice as social experiments.
*Illustrative imageExpanding the language for talking about the value of the environment
Starting from the premise that people live holding many different values, the lab expands the vocabulary for speaking about the value of the environment and maps where those values lie, while also capturing their breadth across time and space and the relationships among them.
*Illustrative imageExamining how values become rules
When values become social norms, what procedures and forums are needed, who should be present, and what kind of "rightness" is required? The lab considers these questions using concepts such as publicness as a guide.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMayumi FukunagaPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “MattoleRiver” Ellin Beltz / Public domain (cropped)
- Exploring a world of living together with other living things: “Satoyama landscape near Hida, Gifu” Seth Vidal / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Expanding the language for talking about the value of the environment: “Restoring Douglas Fir on the Mattole River 2005” Mattole Restoration Council / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Examining how values become rules: “NDL-DC -Utagawa Hiroshige III-Thirty-Six Views of Tokyo Enlightenment 13 Tokyo Court-crd” Hiroshige III / Public domain (cropped)
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