Hokkaido Dairy Farm

Paul Hansen is Professor in the Department of International Resource Sciences at Akita University in Japan.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction1. A Conceptual Scaffolding 2. Toward Modernity: The Forming and Reforming of a Northern Frontier 3. From Traction to Teishoku: Tracing the Human-Bovine Trajectory 4. Problems Protecting the Japanese Dairy Industry 5. Farm Structures 6. The Birth of Grand Hopes 7. Dairy Farmers: Being, Becoming, and Making8. From Teat to Tot: Following Flows 9. Producing and Pumping 10. Keeping It All Working 11. Locals, Lo-siders, Outsiders, and No-siders 12. Assembling Communities: Two Genders and One Religion Conclusion: On the Frontiers of Animal-Human-Technology Epilogue Notes References Index

"…Hokkaido Dairy Farm takes us on a journey to the northern island of Hokkaido, offering us rare insights into a world different from dominant discourses on rural Japan." — Japanese Studies"If this were simply an ethnography of a dairy farm, its usefulness to the field of Japan Studies might be limited, but in Hansen’s framing its usefulness is abundantly demonstrated. Hansen is able to show why a livelihood that seems mundane and taken-for-granted is worth analyzing in the context of Japan—the farm, as he discusses it, does indeed have substantial implications beyond itself." — Gordon Mathews, Chinese University of Hong Kong"This superb ethnography is one of the best works on agricultural Japan in many years. It is also an important entry into the discussion of Japan as a heterogeneous society, as it interrogates and critiques works that attempt to portray Japan as homogeneous and monocultural." — John W. Traphagan, author of Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan