Faculty Information - IGUCHI Yufu

■ Education

1.	1996/04～2004/03	〔Doctorial Course〕 Area and Cultural Studies, the Graduate School of Area and Cultural Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Completed, PhD in Humanities
2.	1993/04～1996/03	〔Doctorial Course (1st Semester)〕 Area and Cultural Studies, Area and Cultural Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Completed, Master of Arts

■ Message

I encourage you to critically problematize the concepts of “common sense” and “self-evidence”. Please enjoy the diverse and heterogeneous environment of APU.

■ Current specialized field

Area Studies, Gender, History of Thought (Key Word：Area Studies, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, History of Thought, Nationalism, gender, sexuality)

■ Books and theses

1.	2023/02/13	Book	Chapter 8 Female Genital Cutting in Asia: The Case of Malaysia pp.109-126 (Collaboration)
2.	2023/02/13	Book	Chapter 9 Female Genital Cutting and the “Medical Gaze” in Southeast Asia Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting pp.127-140 (Collaboration)
3.	2023/01/13	Article	The cultural meaning of ‘female genital mutilation’ in rural Malaysia: The female body and sexuality through the medical gaze Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 53(4),pp.709-732 (Collaboration)
4.	2022/08/11	Article	Transition experiences of the Malay Muslim Trans women in Northern Region of Malaysia: A qualitative study Dialogues in Health 1,pp.1-6 (Collaboration)
5.	2021/05/12	Article	Use of Hormones Among Trans Women in the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia: A Mixed Methods Study Transgender Health 00(00),pp.1-8 (Collaboration)
6.	2020/10/27	Article	Medicalization of female genital cutting in Malaysia: A mixed methods study PLOS Medicine 10(27),pp.1-22 (Collaboration)
7.	2020/01/30	Article	“Female Genital Mutilation” in Malaysia　from the Viewpoint of Sexuality and the Female Body pp.166-189 (Collaboration)
8.	2019/04	Article	Female genital cutting in Malaysia: a mixed-methods study BMJ Open 9(4),pp.1-10 (Collaboration)
9.	2014/04	Article	Post-Colonial Identity Formation in Malaysia: Tensions in the Canon of Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad Asia Pacific World 5(1),pp.92-109 (Single)
10.	2011/11	Article	Institutionalization of Medical Knowledge in the Plan of the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Malaya: Nation, Gender, Ethnicity pp.5-18 (Single)
11.	2011/09	Article	Formation of Tourist Culture in the Theatre Hotel pp.23-48 (Collaboration)
12.	2011/08	Article	Research and Education in a Multicultural Environment: A Case Study of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University pp.177-200 (Single)
13.	2011/02	Article	Formation of Social Sciences in Malaysia: Contesting Meanings of "Plural" in Malaysian Studies Ritsumeikan International Affairs 9,pp.121-143 (Single)
14.	2008/03	Article	Institutionalization of Colonial Knowledge in the Founsdation ofUniversity Southeast Asia: History and Culture pp.100-118 (Single)
15.	2007/03	Article	The Formation and Development of Social Sciences in Malaysia: A History of the Concept of "Plural" Southeast Asian Studies pp.425-443 (Single)
16.	2005/06	Article	Formation of National Identity in Malaysia Monograph of Kobayashi Fellowship, The Setsutaro Kobayashi Memorial Fund, Fuji Xerox pp.1-29 (Single)
17.	2005/02	Article	Area Studies as the Place of "Subjectification": The Plural Meanings of Plurarility in Malaysia Kogakuin Daigaku Kyotsu Katei Kenkyu Ronso pp.29-42 (Single)
18.	2004/03	Article	Reconsiderering B.Anderson's Imagined Communities: Deconstructing the Concept of "Culture" Journal of the Centre for Documentation and Area-Transcultural Studies pp.51-66 (Single)
19.	2002/11	Article	Overcoming "Plural Socisty": The Problem of National Language in Malaya and The Formation of National "Subject" Kogakuin Daigaku Kyotsukatei Kenkyu Ronso pp.41-54 (Single)
20.	2002/03	Article	The Formation of "Subject" and the Position of Malay Language Language, Area and Cultural Studies pp.29-47 (Single)
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■ Academic or professional association memberships

1.	2011/04	International Association for Asia Pacific Studies
2.	2006/08	Malaysian Social Science Association

■ Conference presentations

1.	2024/12/01	Impossibility of Experiences and Traumatic Experiences of Female Genital Cutting in Malaysia (Asia Pacific Conference)
2.	2024/02/10	The Global Discourse of Female Genital Mutilation and Unrecognized Local Practices: State Medicine, Culture, and the Female Body (The Female Body in Post-colonies: Case Studies of Female Genital Cutting in Southeast Asia)
3.	2024/02/09	Female Body in Modern MedicineFemale Body in Traditional Society: Female Genital Cutting in Southeast Asia (Ways forward towards the Abandonment of FGM/C)
4.	2023/12/02	Female Body in Modern Medicine, Female Body in Traditional Society: Female Genital Cutting in Southeast Asia (Asia Pacific Conference)
5.	2022/12/03	Unrecognized practice or invented tradition? Female Genital Cutting in Southeast Asia (Asia Pacific Conference)
6.	2022/07/03	Reclaiming the Body: The experience of “mark” and the traumatic memory of female genital mutilation/cutting (The Asian Studies Conference Japan)
7.	2020/11/17	The Medicalization of Female Genital Cutting in Malaysia: Its Meaning toward the Medical Discourse on the Female Body” (18th Asia Pacific Conference,)
8.	2019/11/30	Cultural Meanings of the Female Body in Malaysia (17th Asia Pacific Studies Conference)
9.	2019/07/02	Anatomical Gaze, Lack of Integrity, Bodily Inscription: Representations on “Female Genital Mutilation” in Malaysia (AAS in Asia)
10.	2018/12/01	“The Practices of “Female Genital Mutilation” in Southeast Asia: Relativizing the Africa- Centric Discourses” (16th Asia Pacific Conference)
11.	2018/10/29	Female Genital Mutilation in Malaysia from the Viewpoint of the Female Body
12.	2018/10/27	Female Genital Cutting In Malaysia
13.	2017/11/12	Female Body and Sexuality in Postcolonial Malaysia: People's View toward "Female Genital Mutilation" in Malaysia (15th Asia Pacific Conference)
14.	2016/11/12	Female Body and Sexuality in Postcolonial Malaysia: People's Views toward "Female Genital Mutilation" in Malaysia (Asia Pacific Conference 2017)
15.	2016/11/05	Changing Views Toward Female Body in Modernization and Globalization: A Case of the Practice of "FGM" in Northern Malaysia Based on Interviews to Midwives (Asia Pacific Conference 2016)
16.	2015/11/08	Politics of Sexuality and Body in Malaysia
17.	2011/11/27	Otherness in the National Canon: (De)constructing the Father of Malay Language (The 2nd IAAPS Annual Conference)
18.	2010/05/30	「グローバル化とジェンダー研究・教育ー教育実践を通じた西洋国民国家中心主義的ジェンダー論の問い直しー」 (日本西洋史学会第60回大会)
19.	2008/06/27	University of Malaya: An Account on Its Establishment (Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies, The 19th APU Southeast Asia Studies Forum)
20.	2007/08/04	技術的合理性と「南方」開発 (5th International Convention of Asia Scholars)
21.	2006/11/23	“Colonial Knowledge and Technology in the Newly Independent Nation State: An Account of the University of Malaya" (The 19th International Conference of International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA))
22.	2006/11/18	“Perfecting the Mechanism of Inventing Traditions: Service and Community Management of Global "Theatre Hotel" (2006 Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Conference, Global Movements in the Asia Pacific)
23.	2006/08/10	“University as an Institution of Colonial Knowledge: The University of Malaya and the Socio-Economic Development of Malaya" (The 5th International Malaysian Studies Conference,)
24.	2006/07/26	“Aman Resorts: Tourism and the Representation of Southeast Asian Communities (RCAPS Seminar)
25.	2004/12/07	“The Formation of National Identity in Negotiation” (The18th Conference of International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA))
26.	2004/08/03	“`Plural Society' Reconsidered: The Formation of National Identity and the Knowledge of Social Sciences in Malaysia" (The 4th International Malaysian Studies Conference)
27.	2003/08/20	“`Area Studies' and National Identity: Reconsidering the Concept of "Plural Society" in Malaysian Studies" (The 3rd International Convention of Asia Scholars)
28.	2002/03/12	“A German Philosopher's View of Japan: The `Rational’ Understanding of `Irrationality’ in Nihon no Kyujutsu" (An ATMA-Goethe University Colloquium on German-speaking Scholarship and the Malay World: Exploring an Empirical Tradition)
29.	2001/11/04	“Reading Against Masculinity: The Contact Zone in the 19th Century Dictionary Compilation" (International Symposium on Malaysian Masculinities)
30.	2000/07/29	“The Colonial Look in the Papers on Malay Subjects" (The16th Conference of International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA))
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■ Works

1.

2021/06/05

An Overview on Female Genital Mutilation in Africa (Webinar)

■ Research topic, funded research and KAKENHI

1.	2024/04～2029/03	Politics of the Female Body: Practice and Transformation of Female Genital Cutting in Southeast Asia (Key Word : Female genital cutting, Southeast Asia, Female body, Gender)
2.	2019/04～2024/03	The Female Body in Post-colonies: Female Genital Cutting in Southeast Asia and Africa (Key Word : )
3.	2012～2014	Representations of Gender in Malaysia: Politics of Discourses on Female Genital Mutilation (Key Word : Malaysia, Gender, Representation, Female Genital Mutilation, Ethnicity, Islam)
4.	2009～2012	The Modern History of Malay Thoughts: Negotiations and Construction (Key Word : Malay, Nationalism, Negotiation, Consturction, Colonialism、Ethnicity)
5.	2008～2011	Formation of National "Subject" in Malaysia (Key Word : subjectification,nationalism,Malaysia)
6.	2008～2010	Possibility of Area Studies as Public Space (Key Word : )
7.	2008	Studry of Alternative Creation of APU, Civil/Social Movement in Asia: Analysis and Stock of "Innovative Knoweledge" in "Grass-roots Power" (Key Word : )
8.	2007～2010	Technology and Imperialism (Key Word : technology,imperialism,modernity)
9.	2007～2010	Technology and Imperialism (Key Word : )
10.	2006～2007	Development of a Frontier Model (APU Model) of Southeast Asian Studies Education for Undergraduates: Aiming to Make An Impact at the Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies in June 2007 (Key Word : )
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■ Educational ability

● Practice example of education method
1.	2016/10/01～2017/03/31	Collaborative Learning Project
2.	2015/04/01～2016/03/30	The project to construct a "co- education" system in CSM cluster
● Announcement concerning education
1.	2018/02/11	AY 2017 CSM one-day retreat
2.	2018/02/04	FIP Minnesota FIP Retreat
3.	2017/04/01	FIP: Book Reading Club
4.	2017/04/01	FIP: Creation of the APU FD Program Based on the Experiences of the Minnesota FD Program
5.	2017/04/01	The project for effective pedagogical methods for society/culture-related subjects in the multicultural and multilingual environment – Part 2-
6.	2017/03/14	AY 2016 CSM FIP event: Joint year-end retreat of CSM cluster & Area studies
7.	2017/02/07	Bench marking at TUFS under the FIP Program , “Establishment of Teaching Methods for Area Studies at APS”
8.	2016/04/01	FIP Program , “Establishment of Teaching Methods for Area Studies at APS”
9.	2016/04/01	FIP　Program: The build-up of effective pedagogic methods for society/culture-related subjects in the multicultural and multilingual environment of APU
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