Researcher Profile and Settings

Affiliation

• Research Faculty of Media and Communication　Media and Communication　Public Communication and Journalism

Job Title

• Professor

J-Global ID

• 200901087184352849

Research Interests

• 予防原則   Sociology of Risk   環境   Sociology of knowledge   

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences / Sociology/history of science and technology
• Humanities & social sciences / Sociology

Educational Organization

•  Master's degree program　Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies
•  Doctoral (PhD) degree program　Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies

Academic & Professional Experience

• 2014/04 - Today Hokkaido University Research Faculty of Media and Communication Professor
• 2012/04 - 2014/03 Hokkaido University Research Faculty of Media and Communication Associate Professor
• 2007/04 - 2012/03 Hokkaido University

Education

•        - 1992  米国マサチューセッツ工科大学大学院
•        - 1988  米国ワシントン大学大学院
•        - 1983  Nara Women's University  Faculty of Science
•        - 1983  Nara Women's University  Faculty of Science

Association Memberships

• 科学社会学会   日本リスク研究学会   International Sociological Association   

Research Activities

Published Papers

• Reading Classics through Study Questions : “The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge” by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann (Part5)

  Miori Nagashima

  The Journal of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies (37) 55 - 68 2023/11 [Not refereed]
  
• Reading Classics through Study Questions : “The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge” by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann (Part4)

  Miori Nagashima

  The Journal of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies (36) 83 - 97 2023/07
• Paths to the Buddhist priesthood: A qualitative study of Kōyasan priests

  Charles MUELLER, Miori NAGASHIMA

  Social Compass 003776862311625 - 003776862311625 0037-7686 2023/05/06 [Refereed]
   

  Factors that currently lead Japanese men to enter and remain in the Buddhist priesthood are poorly understood. This article reports the results of a qualitative study that examines the profiles of a seminary instructor and six Shingon Buddhist priests (真言) at Kōyasan guesthouse temples (高野山). The data, collected from semi-structured interviews, were analyzed with ATLAS.ti using a thematic analysis approach. The study identified seven key themes related to (1) family, (2) mentoring relationships, (3) education, (4) labor, (5) spiritual practices, (6) religious doctrines and faith, and (7) the devotion of guests. For the six priests, family connections were found to play an especially critical role in initial decisions to enter the priesthood, whereas other factors chiefly contributed to sustained commitment. The results are discussed in terms of theories of ‘costly signalling’, ego-identity statuses, and the Japanese tendency to construct personal identity within the context of social affiliations.
• Reading Classics through Study Questions :“The Social Construction of Reality : A Treatisein the Sociology of Knowledge” by Peter L.Berger and Thomas Luckmann (Part3)

  Miori Nagashima

  国際広報メディア・観光学ジャーナル 35 95 - 106 2022/11
• スタディ・クエスチョンで読む古典 : 『現実の社会的構成』 （バーガー＆ルックマン）を読む（その2）

  長島 美織

  国際広報メディア;観光学ジャーナル 34 2022/04
• Divine and Human Agency in Figurative Language from John’s Gospel and Jodo-Shinshu Buddhism

  Peter Richardson and Miori NAGASHIMA

  Cognitive Linguistic Studies Vol. 9 (No. 2) 2022 [Refereed]
  
• A Corpus-Based Comparison of Modality in Evangelical Christian and Zen Buddhist Books

  Charles M Mueller, Peter Richardson, Baramee Kheovichai, Miori Nagashima

  The Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 18 2022 [Refereed]
  
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• Reading Classics through Study Questions: "The Social Construction of Reality" by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann

  長島 美織

  The Journal of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies 33 85 - 95 2021/10 [Not refereed]
  
• Reading Classics through Study Questions : '

  Miori Nagashima

  Media and Communication Studies 74 21 - 43 2021/03 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• Blasphemy and persecution: Positioning in an inter-religious discussion

  Peter Richardson*, Stephen Pihlaja, Miori Nagashima, Masako Wada, Makoto Watanabe and Baramee Kheovichai

  Text & Talk 40 (1) 75 - 98 2020 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Reading ‘Insurance and Risk’ — An Application of Study Question Method — Part6: From paragraph 28 to 34: Insurance and Society

  Miori NAGASHIMA

  The Journal of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies 29 89 - 101 2019/10 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• Imagining Insurance in Japanese High Schools during the Era of Rapid Modernisation: From ‘Distrust’ to the Japanese ‘Spirit’

  Piers Williamson, Miori Nagashima

  Social Science Japanese Journal 22 (2) 229 - 246 2019/06 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Reading ‘Insurance and Risk’ — An Application of Study Question Method — Part5: From paragraph 19 to 27: Insurance and Society

  Miori NAGASHIMA

  The Journal of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies 28 107 - 122 2019/05 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• Reading Classics through Study Questions- 'THE PRSPECTS OF SCIENTIFIC POLITICS: The Relationship between Social Theory and Political Practice' by Karl Mannheim- Part3

  Miori NAGASHIMA

  Media and Communication Studies 72 145 - 163 2019/03 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• Perceptions of danger and co-occurring metaphors in Buddhist dhamma talks and Christian sermons

  Peter Richardson, Miori Nagashima

  Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5 (1) 133 - 154 2018/09 [Refereed][Not invited]
  
• Reading 'Insurance and Risk'-An Application of Study Question Method- Part4: From paragraph 17to 18: Risk is a capital

  Miori NAGASHIMA

  The Journal of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies 27 99 - 110 2018/09 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• Reading Classics through Study Questions- 'THE PRSPECTS OF SCIENTIFIC POLITICS: The Relationship between Social Theory and Political Practice' by Karl Mannheim- Part2

  Miori NAGASHIMA

  Media and Communication Studies 71 143 - 167 2018/03 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• Reading 'Insurance and Risk'-An Application of Study Question Method- Part3: From paragraph 11 to 16: Risk is a calculable and collective

  Miori NAGASHIMA

  The Journal of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies 26 109 - 125 2018/03 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• Reading 'Insurance and Risk'-An Application of Study Question Method- Part2: From paragraph 5 to 10: On 'risk'

  Miori NAGASHIMA

  The Journal of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies 25 57 - 73 2017/09 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• Risk Communication and the Disposal of Radioactive Debris: Answering Questions Without Questioning Answers

  Miori Nagashima, Piers R. Williamson

  SOCIAL SCIENCE JAPAN JOURNAL 20 (2) 163 - 181 1369-1465 2017/08 [Refereed][Not invited]
   

  Between 2011 and 2014, the Japanese government conducted a 'wide-area processing' scheme to dispose of radioactive debris from Iwate and Miyagi prefectures following the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. The scheme was designed to hasten recovery in those areas by disposing of radioactive debris in other regions. Although 'wide-area processing' was open to localities in all 47 prefectures, only 18 participated. Out of the 18 participants, nine explained their involvement to residents in Question and Answer (Q&A) sections posted on their homepages. This article examines those nine Q&As from the perspective of risk communication. It holds that different risk perceptions were held by localities on the one hand, and residents on the other. While the Q&As ostensibly represented a wider shift from a 'deficit model' of risk communication to a 'democratic model', they nonetheless operated hierarchically through the construction of 'ambiguous risks' as 'simple risks' to neglect the 'concern assessment' advocated by the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC). As such, the Q&As were employed as a moral technique to discipline local populations into accepting the radiation risks generated by the national government's approach to reconstruction.
• 「保険とリスク」（フランシス・エワルド著）を読む : スタディ・クエスチョン・メソッドの試み その1：第1段落から第4段落：insuranceについて

  長島 美織

  国際広報メディア・観光学ジャーナル 24 109 - 124 2017/03 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• スタディ・クエスチョンで読む古典 : 「政治学は科学として成りたちうるか ― 理論と実践の問題」（マンハイム）を読む（その 1 ）

  長島 美織

  メディア・コミュニケーション研究 70 59 - 76 2017/03 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• 社会のリスク化と持続可能性

  長島 美織

  メディア・コミュニケーション研究 67 79 - 94 2014 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• 環境リスクと健康リスク

  長島 美織

  国際広報メディア・観光学ジャーナル 19 31 - 43 2014 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• Variation and Uniformity within the Notion of Risk

  長島 美織

  『メディア・コミュニケーション研究』 北海道大学大学院メディア・コミュニケーション研究院 = Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University 65 37 - 45 1882-5303 2013 [Not refereed][Not invited]
   

  This paper examines an epistemological and interdisciplinary approach to a definitionof risk,which gives appropriate meanings to the diversities of current risk research,whileunifying conceptually these varieties. On the basis of Althaus (2005),which focuses on howthe knowledge framework of each discipline shapes each risk research,I will show how thisline of approach to risk notion can capture so far fragmented observations on riskphenomenon.
• 東日本大震災由来災害廃棄物の広域処理をめぐるリスク―セクターモデルの観点から―

  長島美織, 糸川悦子, 小塚洋平

  日本リスク研究学会年次大会講演論文集 25th 84 - 89 2012 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• Scientific Revolution and its influence to the rise of traditional Epistemology

  長島 美織

  The journal of international media, communication, and tourism studies 北海道大学大学院国際広報メディア・観光学院 = Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University 10 (10) 3 - 21 2010 [Not refereed][Not invited]
   

  The central topic of this paper concerns the influence the Scientific Revolution gave to the birth of Epistemology. I have specifically demonstrated that specialization of various disciplines, especially physics, and the notion of even and infinite space, which were introduced during the time of the 17th-18th Century Scientific Revolution, were the key factors of originating meta-scientific epistemology in the 17th to 19th Centuries. The Scientific Revolution was the movement which basically destroyed the Aristotelian world view including his scientific theory, and replaced it with the Newtonian model, but without being able to assign a total metaphysical explanation. To cope with this incomplete world view and realization of the impossibility of the direct approach in metaphysical questions, philosophers such as Locke, Descartes, and Kant began an investigation into the human nature itself. Due to these efforts, epistemology was formulated as a meta-scientific theory which has properties that Mannheim correctly analyzed; a meta-scientific process which has a subject and an object structure and places scientific knowledge between the two as a necessity.
• Karl Mannheim and voluntaristic science

  長島 美織

  The journal of international media, communication, and tourism studies 北海道大学大学院国際広報メディア・観光学院 = Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University 0 (9) 45 - 60 2009 [Not refereed][Not invited]
   

  特集: 知と政治 = Knowledge and PoliticsThe central topic of this paper concerns the possibility of a different kind of scientific knowledge which, on the basis of Mannheim's certain vocabulary, is termed in this paper as "voluntaristic science". I have specifically demonstrated that voluntaristic science is an approach which is applied in the areas where knowledge and real action cannot be separated. Mannheim described this domain as, "the areas where there is a room for activity which is beyond the scope of rational behavior". When we focus on changing and differing perspectives on knowledge in ...
• マンハイムにみる主知主義的科学とゲマインシャフト的科学

  国際広報メディア・観光学ジャーナル (9) 45 - 60 2009 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• On the birth of a commons through multi-national cooperation

  長島 美織

  The journal of international media, communication, and tourism studies 北海道大学大学院国際広報メディア・観光学院 = Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University 0 (5) 3 - 20 2007 [Not refereed][Not invited]
   

  The central hypothesis in this paper concerns the issue of environmental protection among several nations; how to realize an effective cooperation to conserve an ecosystem that permeates national boarders, where the basic behavioral principle under the so-called Westphalian System is for each sovereign nation-state to protect its national interest. Situated in the context of multi-national cooperation for a protection of the North Sea, I explore why an effort under the frame of international law had not been successful, while an international conference has actually promoted the protection ...
• Intergenerational Equality in Public Policy : An Analysis of Environmental Problems in Rawls' Framework

  Nagashima Miori

  International media and communication journal : imcJ 北海道大学 4 (0) 75 - 90 2006/05/30 [Not refereed][Not invited]
   

  The central topic in this paper is an issue of intergenerational equality: what results for future generations from various sorts of environmental destruction caused by the current generation. Reinforcing and refining Rawls' program of reducing morally undeserved inequalities, I distinguish, besides well-known social/economic goods, two basic goods, both which serve as conditions for transforming social/economic goods into real freedom one could exercise; innate goods and resource goods for basic living. I will then take up three cases of major environmental decay and make explicit in what ...
• "Some Considertations on Noun Classes and Numeral Classifiers : A Study of (Pseudo)partitives in Japanese and English", (Y. Nishiyama and Y. Otsu : Keio Studies in Theoretical Linguistics I, 89-124, Keio University, Tokyo, 1996)

  1996 [Not refereed][Not invited]
  

Books etc

• 拡散するリスクの政治性—外なる視座・内なる視座—

  長島美織, グレン・D・フック/ピアーズ, R, ウィリアムソン (Joint work)
  萌書房 2015/03

Conference Activities & Talks

• “Collision of Social Norms: A Consideration from a Sexual Harassment Case in Japan”  [Not invited]

  Miori NAGASHIMA

  35th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities  2024/04
• Institutional Attenuation and Public Perception of Risk: A Sexual Harassment Case in Japan  [Not invited]

  Miori Nagashima

  International Conference on Media, Gender, and Development in the Era of Globalization  2023/11

MISC

• A Relation Between Information and Cultural Behavior: Examining the Birth of the Precautionary Approach

  NAGASHIMA Miori  Journal of the Japan Information-culturology Society  13-  (2)  55  -64  2006  [Not refereed][Not invited]
   

  The central hypothesis in this paper concerns a relation between a culture and information; how wide recognition of lack of information central to a given culture leads to the replacement of a certain culturally framed behavioral pattern with a new one. Situated in multi-national cooperation for a protection of the North Sea, I explore how a culturally framed concept, the Precautionary Approach, came to substitute for the previous culture, which heavily relies on an assimilative capacity of the sea, a capacity to absorb and cleanse harmful materials, and thus allows dumping of wastes as default activities. Close examination of this notion, however, shows that the actual and precise quantification of the assimilative capacity has suffered from a lack of crucial information. For creating a shared framework for this problem, the paper further points out, three features of the International Conferences on the Protection of the North Sea have played important roles: science-based conclusions, national accountability, recognition of the North Sea as a common resource. In the light of these conferences, countries have adopted the Precautionary Approach, by which each country accepts that lack of information about the assimilative capacity requires culturally new attitudes and governmental behaviors based more on a realization of human ignorance.
• Intergenerational Equality in Public Policy

  4-  75  -90  2006  [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• 「表現と公共性―ジェンダー・フリーな言葉への取り組み―」

  久保 美織  言語文化部研究報告叢書  36-  25  -37  1999  [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• 「判断表現と認識―公共伝達における表現の妥当性について―」

  言語文化部研究報告叢書  37-  15  -26  1999  [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• 「やりもらい動詞にみる文法と発話の関係」

  『北海道大学言語文化部紀要』  34-  25  -40  1998  [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• 「ことばにおける女の可視性・不可視性」

  久保 美織  『北海道大学言語文化部研究報告叢書』  26-  (26号)  89  -99  1998  [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• 「英語における時制の一致に関する記述的考察」

  久保 美織  『The Northern Review』  26-  (26)  1  -12  1998  [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• 「ライヘン・バッハ理論による日英時制比較---第２言語習得における生成文法的アプローチの有効性について---」

  久保 美織  『北海道大学言語文化部研究報告叢書』  23-  (23号)  29  -40  1998  [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• 『ことばについて考える』<北海道大学放送教育専門委員会編>

  北海道大学図書刊行会  1998  [Not refereed][Not invited]
  
• 「ことばからみた女と男」

  『言語文化部研究報告叢書 13 フェミニズムのこころみ』  1  -12  1996  [Not refereed][Not invited]
  

Research Grants & Projects

• 宗教言説にみるグローバル化の 影響および宗教間の平和的対話 構築の可能性

  科学研究費

  Date (from‐to) : 2016 -2021 

  Author : リチャードソン ピーター
• リスク社会論のための概念 的フレームワーク構築とリスク化指標の抽出

  科学研究費

  Date (from‐to) : 2012 -2016 

  Author : 長島美織

Educational Activities

Teaching Experience

Position History

• 2015年4月1日 

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  2017年3月31日 

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