Visiting Research Fellow
Helena GRINSHPUN
Degree/Brief Employment Record:
- 2009
- Ph.D., Kyoto University
- 2009
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2011 -
- Visiting Research Fellow, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Specialized Fields:
Japanese Culture, Anthropology
Current Research Themes:
Global chains and the Japanese city in the process of globalization
Major Publications:
- 2011
- “Consuming the Global Village: Starbucks Coffee Chain and Consumer Identity in Japan”, submitted to the Journal of Consumer Research (under review)
- 2009
- “Coffee and National Imagination: Exploring the Case of Israel”, Shakai System, Kyoto University, 12, pp.253-264
- 2007
- “Think Global Fear Local: Sex, Violence and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan” (David Leheny, Cornell University Press, 2006), book review, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, Issue 8/9, March/October
- “The Self and the Other: Tales of Outsiderness”, Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, 16, pp.151-170
