Prof. (Dr.) John Robert Clammer
October 19, 2023 2024-09-17 12:47Prof. (Dr.) John Robert Clammer
Prof. (Dr.) John Robert Clammer
Professor
B.A. (Hons.) (University of Lancaster);
Master of Studies; D.Phil. (University of Oxford)
Prof. (Dr.) John Clammer is a Professor of Sociology at JSLH and has been on the faculty at JGU for the last four years. Prior to that, he was Professor of Comparative Sociology and Asian Studies at Sophia University, Tokyo and then professor and advisor to the Rector at the United Nations University.
He has taught and researched all around the world and has held regular or visiting posts at Oxford, Weimar, Australian National University, Buenos Aires, Pondicherry, Singapore and Warwick, and probably somewhere else that I have forgotten.
He currently works mainly on the interface of culture and development, the sociology of the arts, and issues of sustainability, but in the course of his career has roamed through just about every area of sociology and anthropology.
Author of 21 books and editor or co-author of another 20, and author of around 200 scholarly articles in books and journals
Edited Books
- (With Willemijn de Jong and Eriko Aoki) The Arts on the Margins of World Encounters. Connecticut: Vernon Press (in press).
- (With Jonathan Vickery) Development, Democracy and Culture: Towards Sustainable Justice. Special Number of the Journal of Law, Social Justice and Global Development, 24, 2020.
- (With Meera Chakravorty, Marcus Bussey and Tanmayee Banerjee) The Dynamics of Dissent: Theorizing Movements for Inclusive Futures. New Delhi and London: Routledge, 2019.
- (With Ananta Kumar Giri) The Aesthetics of Development: Art, Culture and Social Transformation. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017. 341pp.
- (With Mallika Shakya) Economic Anthropology and Development Alternatives: Rethinking and Re-Politicizing Theory and Practice. Special number of Dialectical Anthropology, 41 (2), 2017, 112pp.
Articles/Essays in Books and Journals
- “Back to the Future? Satoyama and Cultures of Transition and Sustainability”. In Giuseppe Feola, Hilary Arnall (eds) Climate and Culture: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on a Warming World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019, pp. 291-308.
- “Cultural nationalism, consumption and religion”. Nations and Nationalism, 25, 4, October 2019, pp.1122-1123.
- With Meera Chakravorty, Marcus Bussey and Tanmayee Banerjee, “Introduction: The dynamics of dissent: Theorizing movements for inclusive futures”. In John Clammer, Meera Chakravorty, Marcus Bussey and Tanmayee Banerjee (eds.) Dynamics of Dissent: Theorizing Movements for Inclusive Futures. London, New York and New Delhi: Routledge,2019, pp. 1-11.
- With Naoko Kumagai (2019) “Perspectives on Japan’s Anti-Nuclear Movements: The Effectiveness of Social Movements?” In John Clammer, Meera Chakravorty, Marcus Bussey and Tanmayee Banerjee (eds.) Dynamics of Dissent: Theorizing Movements for Inclusive Futures. London, New York and New Delhi: Routledge,2019, pp. 88-104.
- “Philosophy in Stone: Architecture, Form and Authenticity in the Philosophical Trajectory of Ludwig Wittgenstein”. In K.C. Pandey (ed.) Wittgensteinian Realms of Religious Beliefs, Values and Metaphysics. Ontario: Occam Academic Press, 2020: pp. 109-118.
Single-Authored Books
- Cultural Rights and Justice: Sustainable Development, the Arts and the Body. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019.181pp.
- Cultures of Transition and Sustainability. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016. 194pp.
- Art, Culture and International Development: Humanizing Social Transformation. New York and London: Routledge. 2015. 158pp.
- Vision and Society: Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art. London and New York: Routledge. 2014. 217pp.
- Culture, Development and Social Theory: Towards an Integrated Social Development. London and New York: Zed Press. 2012. 291pp.
- Diaspora and Belief: Globalization, Religion and Identity in Postcolonial Asia. Delhi: Shipra Publications. 2009. 250pp.
- Diaspora and Identity: The Sociology of Culture in Southeast Asia. Subang Jaya: Pelanduk Publications and London: ASEAN Academic Press. 2002. 340pp.
- Japan and Its Others: Globalization, Difference and the Critique of Modernity. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press. 2001. 272pp.
Sociology of the Arts and Culture; Sustainability and economic anthropology; urban sociology; social theory
Introduction to Sociology; Sociology of Arts and Creativity; Emerging Questions in Sociology and Anthropology; Cultures of Cities
In the past many, including the Social Science Research Council, British Academy and the Heinrich Boll Foundation