- Position: Professor
- Degree: Ph.D. (Economics), Kyoto University
- Background:
Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University (2024-recent)
Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Saitama University (2021-2024)
Visiting Professor, The Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (SEAC) , London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2022.10-2023.1)
Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University (2022.1-2022.3)
Visiting Senior Fellow, The Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (SEAC), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2020.10-2021.6)
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Saitama University (2015-2021)
Visiting Scholar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2012.4-2013.3)
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Saitama University (2011-2015)
Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Saitama University (2008-2011)
Researcher, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (2007-2008)
Field of Specialization
Socioeconomics, Urban Studies (mainly Southeast and East Asia), Development Studies, Regional Development Economics
Research Theme
Urban Informality, Urban Economy and Society, Labour, Inequality, Care, Risk and Crisis Response, Gentrification
Major Works / Publications / Awards
Major Works / Publications
- Endo, T., and M. Shibuya [eds]. 2023. Urban Risk and Well-being in Asian Megacities： Urban Lower and Middle Classes in Bangkok, Shanghai, and Tokyo, London: Routledge.
- Goto, K., Endo, T. and A. Ito, The Asian Economy: Contemporary Issues and Challenges, Routledge. 2020．
- Endo, Tamaki. 2014. Living with Risk: Precarity & Bangkok’s Urban Poor, NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press.
Awards
- The 20th Nakasone Yasuhiro Award (Incentive Award) (2024.11)
- Saitama University President Award for Research and Education (2019.11)
- 34th The Daido Life Foundation Incentive Award for Area Studies (2019.7)
- The 28th Ohira Memorial Prize (For Living with the risks, published in 2011) (2012.6)
- The 6th Iue Asia Pacific Research Prize, [Commendation]). (For Ph.D. Thesis) (2007.10)
Academic Societies / Service to Society
Academic Societies
- Japan Association for Asian Studies
- The Japanese Society for Thai Studies
- The Japan Society for International Development
- The Japan Association for Regional Economic Studies
- Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies
- Association of Asian Studies
Service to Society
- Member of Board of Directors (2008-recent), The Japanese Society for Thai Studies
- Member of Board of Directors (2019-recent), Chief editor, Asia Kenkyu (2021-2023), Japan Association for Asian Studies
- Committee for ‘Social Research of Asian Developing Countries’ Project, National Institute for Environmental Studies (2016.4-217.3)
- Committee member for joint research committee of ‘Joint Usage / Research Center’ scheme, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (2016.4-2019.3)
- Planning member [social science] for Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium (JGFOS), organized by JSPS and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) (2014-16)
- Planning member [social science] for Japanese-Canadian Frontiers of Science Symposium: JCFOS), organized by JSPS and The Royal Society of Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (2017)
- The JSPS FoS Symposium Advisory Board member (for Canada and France), JSPS (2019.4-2020.3)
- Committee member, Expert Panel for the 50th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (2022.5-2023.1)
(https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/a_o/rp/page24_001834.html)
Research Project
- MA: Economy, Culture and Society of Asian Cities
- Ph.D.: Economy and Society in Asian Cities
Research Theme, Outline of Project Research Seminar, Message to Prospects
The 21st century has been called the “Century of Asia,” as well as the “Urban Century.” The world’s urban population exceeded 50% in 2008, and thus exceeded the rural population. Future expansions of the world’s population are expected to happen mainly in the cities in Asia and Africa. The cities of emerging countries have experienced rapid and compressed development and therefore are facing the complex challenge of a coexistence of the phenomena and problems of developed countries and developing countries simultaneously. Asian emerging cities in particular, are now becoming a centre of economic development, innovation and nodes of the global networks, and going through large scale restructuring of urban space. On the other hand, we can find that urban informality is still widespread in these cities, though traditional development economics assumed this would disappear once country developed.
This project seminar theoretically and empirically analyses urban economy, culture and society in Asia, through a multidisciplinary approach including socioeconomic, urban studies, area studies and so on. Cities are not only a space for economic activity but also a space for the labour and livelihoods of people and where different interests and multiple intentions of global and local actors meet and, sometimes, conflict. It is increasingly becoming important for area studies to assess the interaction between cross-urban and regional dynamics (commonalities) and characteristics of individual, community and societal responses (uniqueness), by considering the links between the theory, policy and actual changes on the ground. Research into the economies and societies of Asian cities could be a key in creating a more equitable and sustainable future. The seminar will encourage and expect students to not only conduct research from a macro perspective but also a micro perspective, including field surveys, and to try to understand the internal logic of people and the society. It aims to develop future academics and practitioners with broad perspectives, systematic knowledge and professional analytical skills.
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