Dr. Satoshi Ikeda

Canada Research Chair Political Sociology of Global Futures (Tier 2)
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Science

Karl Polyanyi Institute of Political Economy
sikeda@alcor.concordia.ca

Dr. Satoshi Ikeda was born in Japan and obtained both of his doctorate degrees in the United States, beginning with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan and later a Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Dr. Ikeda was an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta before joining Concordia in 2007, where he now holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Political Sociology of Global Futures. He is an associate of the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, Concordia University.

Dr. Ikeda’s current research tackles the political sociology of global futures, social economy, sustainable agriculture, and Japan and East Asia using the method of Polanyi-Hopkins historical sociology informed by the world-system perspective. He is examining the failure of corporate economy, the crisis of neoliberal globalization, and emerging social economies as democratic, egalitarian, sustainable, and just alternatives to corporate economy. He is organizing Global Futures Forum, a discussion and research forum examining social economies.

His research projects have looked specifically at the trajectories of 150 countries under neoliberal globalization, as well as sustainable agriculture in rural Alberta, masculinity and 'masculinism' under globalization, Japan's neo-feudal tendencies under globalization, and Canadian perspectives on peace construction in East Asia. Dr. Ikeda has also specialized in economic development, international trade, and finance.

Among Dr. Ikeda's noteworthy accomplishments are:

• Receiving a SSHRC Standard Research Grant for his project titled "Trajectories of 150 Countries under Neoliberal Globalization" (2004-2008).
• Being awarded the Japan Foundation Fellowship in 2004/05.
• Authoring or co-authoring the following book chapters: "Masculinity and Masculinism under Globalization: Reflections on the Canadian Case" in Remapping Gender in the New Global Order (2007); "Clothes Encounters: Consumption, Culture, Ecology, and Economy" in Consuming Sustainability: Critical Social Analyses of Ecological Change (2005); "Economy, Work, and the Environment" in Consuming Sustainability: Critical Social Analysis of Ecological Change (2005); and "Zonal Structure and Trajectories of Canada, Mexico, Australia, and Norway under Neoliberal Globalization" in Governing under Stress: Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization (2004).
• Authoring the following journal papers in 2004: "Imperial Subjects, National Citizenship, and Corporate Subjects: Cycles of Political Participation/Exclusion in the Modern World-System" in Citizenship Studies; and "Japan and the Changing Regime of Accumulation: A World-System Study of Japan's Trajectory from Miracle to Debacle" in Journal of World-Systems Research.
• Having his book, Trifurcating Miracle: Corporations, Workers, Bureaucrats, and the Erosion of Japan's National Economy, published by Routledge in 2002.