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Research Books

  • Plant and Microbial Biodiversity: Fermentation in the Anthropocene (Book manuscript under contractwith University of California Press)
  • Science by the People: Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental Knowledge  (2019, Rutgers University Press with Abby Kinchy).  
  • Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima (2016, Duke University Press).
  • Food and Power: Visioning Food Democracy in Hawai’i (with Krisna Suryanata, 2016, University of Hawai`i Press).
  • Hidden Hunger: Gender and Politics of Smarter Foods (2013, Cornell University Press).

Articles and Book chapters

  • A. H. Kimura and Shuji Hisano (forthcoming). “Using traditional vegetables as a way for agricultural revitalization: a case study of Kyoto vegetables” in Building Sustainable Agrifood Systems and Resilient Rural Communities: Lessons from Japan. Eds. Hiraga, M., Jussaume, R., Sakamoto, K., and Tanaka, K. Lanham, MA: Lexinton Books. 
  • A. H. Kimura (forthcoming) “Citizen science in Japan” in Handbook of Japanese Civil Society. Eds. Simon Avenel and Akihiro Ogawa. MHM / Japan Documents Publishing
  •  A. H. Kimura (forthcoming) “Citizen science” in Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology. Ed. Christine Overdevest. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • A.H. Kimura (2023) “市民科学”  inコモンの自治論Eds. Saito Kohei and Matsumoto Takuya. Tokyo: Shueisha. (“Citizen science” in Autonomy and Commons) [The volume has sold 22,000 copies to date]
  • A. H. Kimura (2023) “Seeking justice” in Disaster and Justice in the Aftermath of 3.11 eds. Natalia Novikova, Julia Gerster, and Manuela Hartwig. New York: Routledge.
  • A. H. Kimura (2022) “食と農に関わる市民科学のジレンマと可能性：市民参加型の食品リスクガバナンス” 農業と経済 88(4):255-259.(“Food and citizen science” Agriculture and Economy)
  •  Ikegami, Koichi, Kimura, Aya H., Kobayashi, Mai, Nishiyama, Mima, Yamamoto, Nami, and Hisano, Shuji. “食からのアプローチが社会を変える、世界を変える可能性：主体性を持った「食市民」の可能性”  農業と経済　88(4):10ー33.  (“Using food as an entry point for social change: food citizenship and its possibilities” Agriculture and Economy)
  •  A. H. Kimura (2022) “草の根からの「市民」と、国や東電が構築する「市民」: ゆらぐ「市民性」に対峙する市民放射能測定所” in 福島原発事故被災者: 苦難と希望の人類学：分断と対立を乗り越えるために ed. Tsujiuchi, T. and Tom Gill. Tokyo: Akashi Shoten. (“ Different discourses of ‘citizen’: changing citizenship ideas and citizens’ radiation measuring organizations” in Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Victims: Struggles and Hope to Overcome Schisms and Conflicts)  
  •  Dosemagen, S., Kimura, A. H., Frickel, S., and Parker, A. (2022) “Introduction” Special issue on disaster and citizen science for Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 7(1): 14, pp. 1–6.*
  • A. H. Kimura (2021) “Tsukemono (Japanese pickles) and their traditional vegetables.” Gastronomica.   21 (3): 13–19.
  • A. H. Kimura (2021)  “Pickles and agrobiodiversity: a foodway and traditional vegetable varieties in Japan” Agriculture and Human Values 38 (4):1079–1096. *
  •  A. H. Kimura (2021) “Citizen science as a “repertoire of contention”: GE monitoring in Japan and social change potential of participatory science.” Sociological Review 69 (3):580-602. *
  •  Blacker, S. A. H. Kimura, and A. Kinchy (2021). “When Citizen Science is Public Relations:
  • Unpacking the Value of Participatory Research for Polluting Industries” Social Studies of Science 51 (5) 780-796 doi:10.1177/03063127211027662*
  • Ceccaroni, L. Woods, S. M. Sprinks, J., Wilson S., Faustman, E. M., Bonn, A., Tzovaras B. G., Subirats, L. and A. H. Kimura (2021). “ Citizen Science, Health, and Environmental Justice”  in The Science of Citizen Science, Vohland et al. (eds). P. 219-242. Berlin: Springer. https://europepmc.org/article/pmc/pmc7798064
  • A. H. Kimura (2021). “Linking theory and data” in Studying Japan: Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods (eds) Nora Kottmann and Cornelia Reiher. Baden-Baden: Nomos Publishing.
  • A. H. Kimura (2020). “The potentials and challenges of citizen science: 9 years of experience from post-Fukushima Japan” Somatosphere. http://somatosphere.net/2020/citizen-science-fukushima-japan.html/ A.H. Kimura and Abby Kinchy. “Citizen Science in North American Agri-Food Systems: Lessons Learned” (2020). Journal of Citizen Science 5(1): 1-12.*
  • A. H. Kimura (2019). “Food and Nutrition,” in Twenty Lessons in the Sociology of Food and Agriculture.(eds). Hatanaka, M. and Konefal, J. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  
  • A. H. Kimura (2019). “Citizen science in post-Fukushima Japan: The gendered scientization of radiation measurement,” Science as Culture 28(3) doi:10.1080/09505431.2017.1347154. 
  • Kimura, AH and Kinchy, A. 2019. Citizen Science in Agri-Food Systems: Lessons and Recommendations. Report on the outcomes of a workshop at the University of Hawai’i-Mānoa, April 27–29, 2018, supported by the National Science Foundation (Award #1743138). Available at: https://sih.berkeley.edu/research-project/citizen-science-in-agri-food-systems-lessons-and-recommendations/. 
  • A. H. Kimura (2018). “Hungry in Japan: Food insecurity and ethical citizenship,” Journal of Asian Studies 77 (2): 475-493. *
  •  A. H. Kimura (2018). “Fukushima ETHOS: Post-disaster risk communication, affect, and shifting risks,” Science as Culture 27(1): 98-117. *
  • A.H. Kimura (2017). “Eating school lunches together after the Fukushima accident,” in Cultural and Political Issues of Dependency and Risk (ed.) Andreas Niehaus and Tine Walravens. London: Palgrave.A. H. Kimura (2017). “Food,” in Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender (Ed.) Stacey Alaimo. New York: McMillan.
  • A. H. Kimura and Abby Kinchy (2016). “Citizen Science: Probing the Virtues and Contexts of Participatory Research,” Engaging Science Technology, and Society. (2): 331-361. *
  • Ottinger, G., B, Barandiaran, and A. H. Kimura (2016). “Environmental Justice: Knowledge, Technology, and Power,” in Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, 4th Edition.  (eds). Clark A. Miller, Ulrike Felt, Ray Fouché, Laurel Smith-Doerr. Cambridge: MIT Press. P. 1029-1058. *
  • A. H. Kimura (2016). “Farming on the Margin: Women Organic Farmers in Hawai‘i,” in Food and Power: Visioning Food Democracy in Hawai’i. (eds). Aya H. Kimura and Krisnawati Suryanata. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. P. 156-180. *
  • A. H. Kimura. (2016). “Risk communication under postfeminism: Analysis of risk communication programmes after the Fukushima nuclear accident,” Science, Technology, and Society 21 (1): 24-41. *
  • A. H. Kimura (2015). “Understanding Fukushima: Nuclear impacts, risk perceptions and organic farming in feminist political ecology perspective,” in International Handbook of Political Ecology (Ed.) Raymond Bryant. London: Edward Elgar.
  • A.H. Kimura (2015). “Risk communication programs after the Fukushima nuclear accident: a comparison of epistemic cultures,” United Nations University Working Paper Series.
  • Halbrendt, J., S.A. Gray, A. H. Kimura, T. Radovich, B. Breed, B.B. Tamang (2014). “Measuring the impact: gendered implications of conservation agriculture for tribal societies in the central mid-hills of Nepal,” Mountain Research and Development 34 (3): 214-222. *
  • Halbrendt, J., S.A. Gray, S. Crow, T. Radovich, B. B. Tamang, A. H. Kimura (2014). “Differences in farmer and expert beliefs and the perceived impacts of conservation agriculture,” Global Environmental Change 28: 50-62. *
  • A. H. Kimura, C. Biltekoff, J. Mudry, J. Hayes-Conroy (2014) “Nutrition as a project,” Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies 14 (3): 34-45. *
  • C. Biltekoff, J. Mudry, A. H. Kimura, H. Landecker, and J. Guthman (2014). “Interrogating moral and quantification discourses in nutritional knowledge,” Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies 14 (3): 17-26. *
  • J. Hayes-Conroy, J. Mudry, N. Chen, and A. H. Kimura (2014) “Other ways of knowing food,” Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies 14 (3): 27-33. *
  • A. H. Kimura and Yohei Katano (2014). “Farming after the Fukushima accident: A feminist political ecology analysis of organic agriculture,” Journal of Rural Studies 24 108-116 (first author).  *
  • A. H. Kimura (2013) “Standards as hybrid forum: comparison of the Post-Fukushima radiation standards by a consumer cooperative, the private sector, and the Japanese government,” International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 20 (1) 11-29. *
  • A. H. Kimura (2012) “Feminist heuristics: Transforming the foundation of food quality and safety assurance systems,” Rural Sociology 77 (2): 203-224. * 
  • A. H. Kimura (2011) “Food education as food literacy: Privatized and gendered food knowledge in contemporary Japan,” Agriculture and Human Values 28 (4): 465-482. *
  • A. H. Kimura (2011) “Nationalism, patriarchy, and moralism: The government-led food reform in contemporary Japan,” Food and Foodways 19:201–227. *
  • A. H. Kimura (2010) “Between technocracy and democracy: An experimental approach to certification of food products by Japanese consumer cooperative women,” Journal of Rural Studies 26 (2): 130-150. *
  • A. H. Kimura (2008) “Who defines the 'needs' of babies?: Scientization of baby food in Indonesia,” Social Politics 15 (2): 232-260. *
  • A. H. Kimura and Mima Nishiyama (2008) “The chisan-chisho movement: Japanese local food movement and its challenges,” Agriculture and Human Values 25 (1): 49-64 (first author). *
  • A. H. Kimura and Mima Nishiyama (2005). “The alternative agrofood movement in contemporary Japan,” The Chiba University Technical Bulletin of Faculty of Horticulture.
  • Frederick H. Butte and A.H. Kimura (2003). “The ‘gene revolution” in global perspective: a reconsideration of the global adoption and diffusion of GM crop varieties 1996- 2002,” Program on Agricultural Technology Studies Staff Paper Series, No. 9.​