{"id":13544,"date":"2024-08-30T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/?p=13544"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:19:59","slug":"gagne-nana-okura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/faculty-en\/13544","title":{"rendered":"Nana Okura GAGNE"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Position: <\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW31381882 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW31381882 BCX8\">Associate Professor<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Degree:<\/strong> Ph.D. in Anthropology, Yale University<\/li>\n<li><strong>Background:<\/strong>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">The University of Tokyo, Institute of Social Science (2012-2014)<br \/>\nThe Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Japanese Studies (2014-2024)<br \/>\nWaseda University, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (2024-Present)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Field of Specialization<\/h3>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Cultural Anthropology\uff08Work, Leisure &amp; Well-being\uff0fGender, Sexuality &amp; Family\uff09<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Research Theme<\/h3>\n<p>Work &amp; Wellbeing; Work &amp; Leisure; Gender &amp; Sexuality; Family &amp; Reproductive Health<\/p>\n<h3>Major Works \/ Publications \/ Awards<\/h3>\n<h4>Major Works \/ Publications<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Gagn\u00e9 Okura, N. (2024) Pursuit of Prengancy: Assisted Reproduction and Women\u2019s Pepro-activity in Japan. In The New Reproductive Order: Changing (In) Fertilities across the Golbe, edited by Sarach Franklin and Marcia Inhorn. New York: New York University Press<\/li>\n<li>Gagn\u00e9 Okura, N. (2021) Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism. Cornell University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Gagn\u00e9 Okura, N. (2020) From Employment Security to Managerial Precarity: Japan\u2019s Changing Welfare-Work Nexus and its Impacts on Mid-Career Workers. Pacific Affairs, 93 (2): 379-400.<\/li>\n<li>Gagn\u00e9 Okura, N. (2019) Neoliberalism at Work: Corporate Reforms, Subjectivity, and Post-Toyotist Affect in Japan. Anthropological Theory, 20 (4): 455-483.<\/li>\n<li>Gagn\u00e9 Okura, N. (2018) \u201cCorrecting Capitalism\u201d: Changing Metrics and Meanings of Work among Japanese Employees. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 48 (1): 67-87.<\/li>\n<li>Gagn\u00e9 Okura, N. (2016) Feeling like a \u2018Man\u2019: Managing Gender, Sexuality, and Corporate Life in After-Hours Tokyo. In Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia, edited by Tiantian Zheng. University of Hawaii Press.<\/li>\n<li>Gagn\u00e9 Okura, N. (2014) Romance and Sexuality in Japanese Latin Dance Clubs. Ethnography, 15(4): 446-468.<\/li>\n<li>Gagn\u00e9 Okura, N. (2011) Eating Local in a U.S. City: Reconstructing \u201cCommunity\u201d \u2014a Third Place\u2014 in a Global Neoliberal Economy. American Ethnologist, 38(2): 281-293.<\/li>\n<li>Gagn\u00e9 Okura, N. (2010) The Business of Leisure, the Leisure of Business: Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity through Gendered Service in Tokyo Hostess Clubs. Asian Anthropology, 9: 29-55.<\/li>\n<li>Gagn\u00e9 Okura, N. (2010) Reexamining the Notion of Negative Face in the Japanese Socio- Linguistic Politeness of Request. Journal of Language and Communication, 30(2): 123-128.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Awards<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Research Excellence Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Academic Societies \/ Service to Society<\/h3>\n<h4>Academic Societies<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>American Anthropological Association<\/li>\n<li>Association for Asian Studies<\/li>\n<li>European Association of Japanese Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Service to Society<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Member, Changing (In) Fertilities Research Network (University of Cambridge)<\/li>\n<li class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Member, Women\u2019s Empowerment through Financial Literacy (WEFL) Programme (Chinese University of Hong Kong)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Research Project<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>MA: Society &amp; Culture in the Asia-Pacific<\/li>\n<li>PhD: Contemporary Japanese Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Research Theme, Outline of Project Research Seminar, Message to Prospects<\/h3>\n<p>The MA and PhD seminars use sociological and anthropological approaches (theories and methods) to explore the dynamics of social life among peoples in Japan and the contemporary Asia-Pacific region. As part of the seminars, students will engage in qualitative research that includes participant-observation and\/or in-depth interviewing in order to explore a narrowly defined question of their choice concerning some sociocultural phenomenon in Japan and\/or the Asia-Pacific region. In particular, the seminars are geared toward students with a social science background who wish to study qualitative aspects of work issues, gender issues, or family issues in Japan and Asia-Pacific societies. In addition, since the area of most of my research has been Japan (and China, Hong Kong and the US), students wishing to study those societies are particularly welcome.<\/p>\n<h3>Course List<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100004226_en.html#item_syllabus_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Course List<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Faculty Spotlights<\/h3>\n<h5>\u203bPlease click the thumbnail below to view the detailed version (PDF) or the interview video.<\/h5>\n<div class=\"table-wrapper\"><table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 64.0479%; height: 246px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 10px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 36.76%; height: 10px; text-align: center;\">\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u25c6Digital Book<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.8461%; height: 10px;\">\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u25c6Interview Video<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 236px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 36.76%; height: 236px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/02\/facultyspotlights_vol4_e_in.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/02\/facultyspotlights_vol4_j_in_Page1-610x864.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 23.8461%; height: 236px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9D0Mm0oK3DE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/08\/265745ecabf08c743eae4b2154dcc4bb-610x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/08\/265745ecabf08c743eae4b2154dcc4bb-610x343.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/08\/265745ecabf08c743eae4b2154dcc4bb-940x529.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/08\/265745ecabf08c743eae4b2154dcc4bb-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/08\/265745ecabf08c743eae4b2154dcc4bb-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/08\/265745ecabf08c743eae4b2154dcc4bb.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/fire\/gsaps\/en\/about\/faculty\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u203b1<br \/>Associate Professor<br \/>Cultural Anthropology\uff08Work, Leisure &#038; Well-being\uff0fGender, Sexuality &#038; Family\uff09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17345,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544\/revisions\/17345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}