Paul Hansen 
Hokkaido Dairy Farm [EPUB ebook] 
Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan

Hokkaido Dairy Farm offers a historical and ethnographic examination of the rapid industrialization of the dairy industry in Tokachi, Hokkaido. It begins with a history of dairy farming and consumption in Hokkaido from a macro perspective, mapping the transition from survival to subsistence and then from mixed family farms to monoculture and ‘mega’ industrial operations. It then narrows the focus to examine concrete changes in a Tokachi-area dairying community that has undergone rapid sociocultural upheaval over the last three decades, with shifts in human relationships alongside changes in human and cow connections through new technologies. In the final chapters, the scope is further narrowed to a detailed history and ethnography of a single industrializing dairy farm and the morphing cast of individuals attached to it, centering on their idiosyncratic searches for economic, social, and even ontological security in what is popularly considered a peripheral region and industry. The culmination of over fifteen years of ethnographic, policy, and historical research,
Hokkaido Dairy Farm argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of frontiers.

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction



1. 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 Making



8. 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

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