Heide Imai / 今井ハイデ

PhD, Professor (Associate)

Introduction

Dr. Heide Imai is Architect, Author and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Intercultural Communication, Senshu University, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Imai has taught undergraduate and postgraduate at different universities in Japan, the UK and Germany and she has researched widely about vernacular landscapes, cultural identities and urban practices focussing on modern Asia.

現在、専修大学国際コミュニケーション学部の準教授を務める。これまで、日本の様々な大学（ICU、京都大学、立館大学、慶應大学など）、英国（オックスフォード、マンチェスター、リーズ）そしてドツの大学の学部および大学院において教鞭をとってきた。研究は、グローバル化する近代アジアにおけるその土地固有の景観、文化的なアイデンティティー、そして都市におけるライフスタイルなど多岐にわたって行っている。

Discipline 学問の分野

Urban Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Urban/Rural Sociology

都市研究、文化人類学、都市/農村社会学

Research Focus 研究の焦点

Urban/Rural Creativity, Creative industries, Global/ Vernacular landscapes in Asia, Japan, post-pandemic Places

都市/農村の創造性、クリエイティブ産業、アジア、日本, 世界的/地方の風景、パンデミック後の場所

Book Publications 本の出版物

Tokyo Roji – The Diversity and Versatility of Alleys in a City in
Transition (2017, Routledge),

Creativity in Tokyo – Revitalizing a Matured City (2020, Palgrave,
with Matjaz Ursic, Book Award 2021 Slovene Sociological Asosciation)

Asian Alleyways – An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization
(2020, Amsterdam University Press, with Marie Gibert-Flutre)

Authored and Edited Books

• Imai, H. (forthcoming)  Everyday Yokohama  – Neighbourhood between Decay and Renewal (PALGRAVE)
• Imai, H. and M. Ursic (2020)  Creativity in Tokyo  – Revitalizing a Matured City  (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Imai, H. and M. Gibert-Flutre (Eds.) (2020) Asian Alleyways: an Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization (Amsterdam University Press)
• Imai, H. (2017) Tokyo Roji – The Diversity and Versatility of Alleys in a City in Transition, Routledge,
• Jaeger, H. (2006) Roji Research – Diversity of Alleyways in Kyoto (Kyoto University)

• Peer-reviewed Papers and Book Chapters
• Imai, H. and Yao Ji (2022) Creative Revitalization and COVID-19: Lessons from Ishinomaki, Japan, Asian Studies, pp.  
• Imai, H. and Yao Ji (2021) Social Capital, Innovation, and Local Resilience: Tokyo Neighbourhood in Times of Crisis, Asian Studies, pp. 283-313. 
• Imai, H. (2020) Poverty in a wealthy Megacity: Stories from Tokyo’s Alleys after the Bubble Burst, in International Handbook on Megacities and Megacity-regions, edited by Labbe, D. and A. Sorensen, Routledge.
• Imai, H. (2017) Back to the City – Sustainability and Creativity as a new Approach to revive the City from Inside, in Bremm, D. and L. Curtright (Eds) Sustainability and the City: Urban Poetics and Politics,pp.113-142.
• Imai, H. (2013) The Liminal Nature of Alleyways: Understanding the Alleyway Roji as a ‘Boundary’ between Past and Present, Journal Cities (h-index 62), Special Issue on Urban Borderlands, October 2013, pp.58–66.
• Imai, H. (2012) Balancing Urban Revitalization, Tourism and Development Issues in times of Crisis -Kawagoe’s historical district as self-sustaining and resilient community, Journal Contemporary Japan (h-index 12), 24, 2, pp. 149-178.
• Imai, H. (2010) Sensing Tokyo’s Alleyways: everyday life and sensory encounters in the alleyways of a City in Transition, in Devorah Kalekin-Fishman and Kelvin E. Y. Low (Eds.) Everyday Life in Asia: Social Perspectives on the Senses Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, pp. 64-84
• Imai, H. (2008) Senses on the move: multi-sensory encounters with street vendors in the Japanese urban alleyway roji, Journal Senses and the Society (h-index 10), Volume 3, 3, 329-339. Available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/174589308X331350

Non-refereed Papers and Book Chapters

• Imai, H. (2021) Tokyo Above and Below – The Neglected and Poor of the City, in Radovic, D. Tokyo Diversities, A+U, Architecture and Urbanism Magazine, Tokyo: Shinkenchiku-Sha Co.
• Imai, H. (2020) Alleyways between Urban Renewal, Cultural Innovation and Social Integration? The Case of Tokyo and Seoul, in Asian Alleyways: an Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization, edited by Imai, H. and M. Gibert-Flutre, Amsterdam University Press.
• Imai, H. (2020) Introduction, in Asian Alleyways: an Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization, edited by Imai, H. and M. Gibert-Flutre, Amsterdam University Press.
• Imai, H. (2020) The Future of Asian Alleyways: Towards Integrated and Diverse Alleyways, in Asian Alleyways: an Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization, edited by Imai, H. and M. Gibert-Flutre, Amsterdam University Press.
• Imai, H. (2019) Yokohama – Homeless, Artists and the New Urban, GIS Journal, Volume 1, pp. 69-74.
• Imai, H. (2018) Urban Ordinaries – Vernacular Landscapes as Places of Diversity, Difference and Displacement, IPHS Conference, Yokohama,  Proceedings of the 18th International Planning History Society Conference, Volume 18 No 1 (2018), p. 134 , https://doi.org/10.7480/iphs.2018.1
• Imai, H. (2018) Marginalized, Rediscovered and Commodified – The Perception of Alleyways in Contemporary Tokyo, GIS Journal, Volume 1, pp.63-72.
• Imai, H. (2017) Between Urban Poetics, Politics and Creativity – Urban Commons and Ordinary Places, GIS Journal, Volume 1, pp.117-124.
• Imai, H. (2016) Situated Urban Rituals – Rethinking the meaning and practice of micro culture in cities in East Asia and Japan, GIS Journal, forthcoming, Volume 1, pp.41-86.
• Imai, H. (2015) Preserving Tokyo’s Alleyways: from marginal to neighbourhood place?, GIS Journal, forthcoming, Volume 1, pp.1-18.
• Imai, H. (2014), Kidscape Jiyugaoka, in Radovic, Darko (Eds) Jiyugaoka, Tokyo: ichii shobou, pp.40.
• Imai, H. (2013), Dérive of Senses, MnM Workbook 2, Tokyo Dérive – In search of Urban Intensities,  Radovic, Darko (Eds.) Tokyo: ichii shobou, pp.34-39.
• Imai, H. (2012), Small Urban Niches Rediscovered: Defining Tokyo’s cultural and alternative landscape, in Small Tokyo,  Radovic, Darko and Davisi Boontharm (Eds.) Tokyo: ichii shobou, pp.88-95.
• Jaeger, H. (2008) Resonances of the roji: Shifting Public Space and Urban Life in between Low and High-rise, In Another Tokyo – Places and Practices of Urban Resistance, edited by Darko Radovic, Tokyo: ichii shobou, 2008, pp. 27-28.

Reviews

• Imai, H. (2020) Between Macro and Micro: Historical Perspective on the Urban in Japan, Journal of Urban History (January 2020, 1-5), https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144219899385. (h-index 23)
• Imai, H. (2019), Nikro, Norman Saadi & Sonja Hegasy, The Social Live of Memory: Violence, Trauma, and Testimony in Lebanon and Morocco (Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict), International Sociology Review (ISR) (h-index 17) March 2019 8: 3-6, DOI: 10.1177/0268580919830920
• Imai, H. (2016) Abdoumaliq Simone, Jakarta -Drawing the City Near,  International Sociology Review (ISR), (h-index 17) March 2016 31: 235-237 http://iss.sagepub.com/content/31/2/235?etoc

Editorial

• Imai, H. (forthcoming)Navigating and Understanding Vernacular Landscapes in Global Cities: Everyday Practices, Commodification and Contestation, Regional and Urban Development, RC21, XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Special Issue (forthcoming)
• Jaeger, H. (2008) Workshop YaNeSen – a Selection of Essays (Eds),  In Another Tokyo – Places and Practices of Urban Resistance, Darko Radovic, Tokyo: ichii shobou, 2008, pp.17-27.

Upcoming

• Imai, H. and F. Purkarthofer (forthcoming) Gentrification, Revitalization or what: Changing Scapes, Scales and Spaces in Japan. Journal Cities.
• Imai, H. (forthcoming) The Transformation of Tokyo’s Fish Market’s Identity: Tokyo 2020, Toyosu and Tsukiji. Journal Urban Studies.
• Imai, H. and Yao Ji (forthcoming) The Commercialization of Urban Creativity.forthcoming.