Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Yōkoso Hokkaido
	The Groundwork for Fieldwork
	Tokachi, Hokkaido: Arrival
	Meeting Wada Shachō
	Mapping the Road Ahead
Chapter One: A Conceptual Scaffolding
	Introduction
	Tokachi Dairy: When Otherness Meets Each Otherness
	Dairy Farmers as Other
	(In)security: Relations of Being and Becoming
Chapter Two: Toward Modernity: The Forming and Reforming of a Northern Frontier
	Introduction
	From Ezo to Hokkaido: A Periphery of Barbarians, Exiles, and Outcasts
	Identity, Modernity, and the Construction of Contemporary Geocultural Frontiers
	Marking the Otherness on the Hokkaido Frontier Today
	Conclusion
Chapter Three: From Traction to Teishoku: Tracing the Human-Bovine Trajectory
	Introduction
	A History of Japanese Beef Cattle
	A History of Japanese Dairy Cattle
	Modern Beef and Dairy Consumption
	Conclusion
Chapter Four: Problems Protecting the Japanese Dairy Industry
	Introduction
	A Case Study: Creating Constant Crisis
	Why Does the Government Intervene?
	How Does the Government Intervene?
	Conclusion
Chapter Five: Farm Structures
	Introduction
	The Development of Gensan, Tokachi, and a Modern Hokkaido Industry
	Town and Country
	The Range of Bokujō
	Securing Employment: Individuals Brokering Their Situations
	Conclusion
Chapter Six: The Birth of Grand Hopes
	Introduction
	Grand Hopes Farm as a Case Study
	Grand Hopes: The Farm and Its Families
	Conclusion
Chapter Seven: Dairy Farmers: Being, Becoming, and Making
	Introduction
	At the Frontiers of the Social, the Individual, and the Self
	Being between Extremes: Nihonjinron, Social Others, and Dairy Farmers
	Farm Individuals and Their Grand Hopes
	Working It Out
	Conclusion
Chapter Eight: From Teat to Tot: Following Flows
	Working Bodies
	Head Work: Farm Intelligence
		Jimusho sutafu (Office Staff)
		Hatsujō hantā (The “Heat” Hunter)
		Jūi (Veterinarians)
	Working Lives
		Matsuyama: At Home on the Range
		The Secret Life of Tarō-san
		A Shy Girl?
	Head Work: Interactions
Chapter Nine: Producing and Pumping
	Farm Foot Soldiers
	Heart Work: Producing and Pumping
		Gyūnyū ushi (Dairy Cattle)
		Sutōru (Stall Staff)
		Hōrudin (Holding Area Staff)
		Pārā (Parlor Staff)
	Working Lives
		Between-san
		Takuto, aka Up, Up, and Away
		Hairless Ichiro and Harmless Haru
		“Za” Tokyo Cowboy
		Tsutomu: Nobody Knows the Troubles I’ve Seen
		The Chinese Are Coming!
	Heart Work: Interactions
Chapter Ten: Keeping It All Working
	Livelihoods on the Fringe
		Niku ushi (Beef Cattle)
		Daini (Secondary Area Workers)
		Ko(u)shi (shita) (The Barn below the Hill Where Small Cows Are Kept Workers)
		“Linking Limbs”
		Shitauke (Subcontractors) and Hoka (or Betsu) No … (Other Workers)
	Working Lives
		The Invisible Legacy of a “No-Good” Son
		The Metamorphosis of Masahiro
		Kunio-san
		Blood Brothers
		Dr. Oda and Nurse Kyoko: A Local Eccentric and a Honshu Escapee
		Sutāru: Dancing to African Drums under Tibetan Flags and Stars
	Interactions in the Extremities
Chapter Eleven: Locals, Lo-siders, Outsiders, and No-siders
	Introduction
	The Enigmatic Art of Becoming Local
	Life after the Ie: Assembling Otherness and Security
	Conclusion
Chapter Twelve: Assembling Communities: Two Genders and One Religion
	Introduction
	Farm Women
	Farm Men
	Batō San, Not Sama: Local Protection from Life’s Insecurities
	Conclusion
Conclusion: On the Frontiers of Animal-Human-Technology
	Introduction
	Inside the Animal-Human-Machine
	Being a Cow, Becoming Cattle
	Bovine Lessons in Becoming Human
	Unlikely Enchantments: Dancing Outside the Panoptic Gaze
	Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index