James Farrer is Professor of Sociology and Global Studies and Director of the Graduate Program in Global Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo. His research focuses on the contact zones of global cities, including ethnographic studies of sexuality, nightlife, expatriate communities, and urban food cultures. Recent publications include The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries and Politics (with David Wank eds.), International Migrants in China’s Global City: The New Shanghailanders,...
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 4130 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9847-0347 |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
Roles
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Sophia University
University, Tokyo, Japan
Professor
Research
Urban foodways and social sustainability: neighborhood restaurants as social infrastructure
| Authors | James Farrer, James Farrer |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Food, Culture & Society |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Homo narrans: A transdisciplinary reading of Ken Plummer’s narrative sociology
| Authors | Rebecca Babirye, James Farrer |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Sexualities | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Reinventing Japanese Fine Dining in Culinary Global Cities
| Authors | James Farrer, Mônica R. de Carvalho, Chuanfei Wang |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | The Global Japanese Restaurant | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Fast and Japanese:
| Authors | David L. Wank, Mônica R. de Carvalho, James Farrer, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | The Global Japanese Restaurant |
Introducing the Global Japanese Restaurant
| Authors | James Farrer, David L. Wank |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | The Global Japanese Restaurant | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Global Migrations and the Mass Market Japanese Restaurant
| Authors | David L. Wank, James Farrer, Chuanfei Wang |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | The Global Japanese Restaurant | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Imperialism and Its Culinary Legacies:
| Authors | Chuanfei Wang, James Farrer, Christian A. Hess |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | The Global Japanese Restaurant |
Japantown Restaurants:
| Authors | Christian A. Hess, James Farrer, David L. Wank, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | The Global Japanese Restaurant |
The Izakaya as Global Imaginary
| Authors | James Farrer, David L. Wank, Chuanfei Wang, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | The Global Japanese Restaurant | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Global Food Fashions and Their Cultural Intermediaries
| Authors | Lenka Vyletalova, James Farrer, Chuanfei Wang, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | The Global Japanese Restaurant | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Reflecting on the Global Japanese Restaurant
| Authors | James Farrer, David L. Wank |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | The Global Japanese Restaurant | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Global Japanese Restaurant
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
From cooks to chefs: skilled migrants in a globalising culinary field
| Authors | James Farrer |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | The Question of Skill in Cross-Border Labour Mobilities | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Sustainable neighbourhood gastronomy: Tokyo independent restaurants facing crises
| Authors | James Farrer |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Asia Pacific Viewpoint | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Correction to: Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places
| Authors | Susanne Wessendorf, James Farrer |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |
Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places
| Authors | Susanne Wessendorf, James Farrer |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The space-time compression of Tokyo street drinking
| Authors | James Farrer |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Food, Culture & Society |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Who owns a cuisine? The grassroots politics of Japanese food in Europe
| Authors | James Farrer, Chuanfei Wang |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Asian Anthropology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Asian food and culinary politics: food governance, constructed heritage and contested boundaries
| Authors | Yuk Wah Chan, James Farrer |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Asian Anthropology |
From cooks to chefs: skilled migrants in a globalising culinary field
| Authors | James Farrer |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
International Migrants in China's Global City
| Authors | James Farrer |
| Year | 2019 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Multiple Contexts of Protest: Reflections on the Reception of the MIT Visualizing Cultures Project and the Anti-Right Japanese Demonstration in Shanghai
| Authors | James Farrer |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | positions: asia critique | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
China Wants You: The Social Construction of Skilled Labor in Three Employment Sectors
| Authors | James Farrer |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Asian and Pacific Migration Journal | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Raising cosmopolitans: localized educational strategies of international families in Shanghai
| Authors | JAMES FARRER, ANNA GREENSPAN |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
| Citations (WoS) | 5 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Good stories: Chinese women's international love stories as cosmopolitan sexual politics
| Authors | James Farrer |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Sexualities | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Re-Embedding Sexual Meanings: A Qualitative Comparison of the Premarital Sexual Scripts of Chinese and Japanese Young Adults
| Authors | James Farrer, Gefei Suo, Haruka Tsuchiya, ... |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Sexuality & Culture | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Global Nightscapes in Shanghai as Ethnosexual Contact Zones
| Authors | James Farrer |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘New Shanghailanders’ or ‘New Shanghainese’: Western Expatriates' Narratives of Emplacement in Shanghai
| Authors | James Farrer |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 39 |
A Foreign Adventurer’s Paradise? Interracial Sexuality and Alien Sexual Capital in Reform Era Shanghai
| Authors | James Farrer |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Sexualities | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Shanghai Bars
| Authors | James Farrer |
| Year | 2009 |
| Journal Name | Chinese Sociology & Anthropology |
Online Dating in Japan: A Test of Social Information Processing Theory
| Authors | James Farrer, Jeff Gavin |
| Year | 2009 |
| Journal Name | CyberPsychology & Behavior | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Emotional expression in tsukiau dating relationships in Japan
| Authors | James Farrer, Haruka Tsuchiya, Bart Bagrowicz |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Social and Personal Relationships | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
From “Passports” to “Joint Ventures”: Intermarriage between Chinese Nationals and Western Expatriates Residing in Shanghai
| Authors | James Farrer |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | Asian Studies Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Extramarital Love in Shanghai
| Authors | James Farrer, Sun Zhongxin |
| Year | 2003 |
| Journal Name | The China Journal |
Disco ‘Super-Culture’: Consuming Foreign Sex in the Chinese Disco
| Authors | James Farrer |
| Year | 1999 |
| Journal Name | Sexualities | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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