Contact
OFFICE:?305?Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Formerly Known As Kroeber Hall)
E-MAIL:?knak@berkeley.edu
OFFICE HOURS
https://calendly.com/knakamura/office-hours
Special Interests
Cultural anthropology; Disability Studies; LGBT movements; minority social movements and identity politics; visual anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking, Japan
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Research
My research is on disability, sexuality, and other minority social movements in contemporary Japan. In 2006, I published Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity, an ethnography of sign language and deaf social movements. My second project on psychiatric disabilities and community based recovery resulted in two ethnographic films and a book titled, A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan (2014). My books, films, and articles have resulted in numerous prizes including the John Whitney Hall Book Prize, the SVA Short Film Award, and David Plath Media Award. I'm currently finishing a project on trans movements as disability in Japan while launching a new project on robotics, augmentation, and prosthetic technology.