Whales of Power: Aquatic Mammals, Devotional Practices, and Environmental Change in Maritime East Asia

Project Information

WhoP

Grant agreement ID: 803211

DOI

10.3030/803211

Project closed

EC signature date 18 December 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 31 January 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 819,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 819,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
Norway

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

Negotiating extirpation: On the political implications of declaring dugongs extinct in Okinawan waters

Author(s): Marius Palz
Published in: Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 2755-0958
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/ext.2024.17

The Great Outboard Debate: Negotiating Materiality and Dispossession in a Southeast Asian Marine Hunting Community

Author(s): Florence Durney
Published in: Anthropological Quarterly, Issue 96, 2024, Page(s) 125-151, ISSN 1534-1518
Publisher: George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2024.a923086

On the edges of extinction: Indigenous whaling governance, the 1977 “bowhead controversy” and its legacy

Author(s): Sonja Åman
Published in: Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 2755-0958
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/ext.2024.14

Whaling on stage: a comparison of contemporary Japanese whale festivals

Author(s): Aike P. Rots, Ellen Haugan
Published in: Religion, Issue 53, 2023, Page(s) 528-553, ISSN 0048-721X
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2023.2211393

A Sea Cow Goes to Court. Extinction and Animal Agency in a Struggle Against Militarism

Author(s): Marius Palz
Published in: Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism, Issue 8/1-2, 2020, ISSN 2280-9643
Publisher: Relations beyond Anthropocentrism
DOI: 10.7358/rela-2020-0102-palz

When Gods Drown in Plastic

Author(s): Aike P. Rots, Nhung Lu Rots
Published in: Environmental Humanities, Issue 15, 2024, Page(s) 8-29, ISSN 2201-1919
Publisher: Duke University Press
DOI: 10.1215/22011919-10745957

Beyond Methodological Nationalism

Author(s): Aike P. Rots
Published in: The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, Issue 41, 2023, ISSN 2246-2163
Publisher: University of Copenhagen
DOI: 10.22439/cjas.v41i1.6883

Festivals in Asia: patronage, play, and piety

Author(s): Mark Teeuwen, Moumita Sen, Aike P. Rots
Published in: Religion, Issue 53, 2024, Page(s) 387-405, ISSN 0048-721X
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2023.2211395

World Heritage, Secularisation, and the New “Public Sacred” in East Asia

Author(s): Aike P. Rots
Published in: Journal of Religion in Japan, Issue 8/1-3, 2019, Page(s) 151-178, ISSN 2211-8330
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/22118349-00801011

Appropriate Targets

Author(s): Florence Durney
Published in: Environment and Society, Issue 11/1, 2020, Page(s) 44-63, ISSN 2150-6779
Publisher: Berghahn Journals
DOI: 10.3167/ares.2020.110104

Utopia, theodicy, and ritual: East Asian perspectives

Author(s): Aike P. Rots
Published in: Religion, Issue 54, 2024, Page(s) 569-579, ISSN 0048-721X
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2024.2362069

Okinawan Coral Politics, Henoko Base Construction and a Japanese Political Strategy of Ignorance

Author(s): Marius Palz
Published in: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Issue Volume 19 | Issue 24 | Number 2, 2021, ISSN 1557-4660
Publisher: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

Misa, Lefa, Puang: ritual, piety, and performance in opening the ocean season in a Southeast Asian marine hunting community

Author(s): Florence Durney
Published in: Religion, Issue 53, 2023, Page(s) 508-527, ISSN 0048-721X
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2023.2211394

Book chapters (5)

Entangled Endangerments: “Revitalising the Gray Whale and its Hunt”

Author(s): Sonja Åman
Published in: Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity, 2024
Publisher: De Gruyter

Space and Environment

Author(s): Aike P. Rots
Published in: The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions, 2025
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press

Environmentalism

Author(s): Aike P. ROTS
Published in: THE BLOOMSBURY HANDBOOK OF JAPANESE RELIGIONS, 2021, ISBN 978-1-3500-4373-2
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
DOI: 10.5040/9781350043763.ch-008

The Village Church as Intangible Cultural Heritage: European Ritual Innovation Seen from a Japanese Perspective

Author(s): Aike P. Rots
Published in: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe, 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Kushi comes last

Author(s): Marius Palz
Published in: Lived experiences of crisis in rural Japan: An anthology on the transformation of communities and migration during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2024
Publisher: CrossAsia Open Access Repository

Other (1)

The Elusive Adjective: Overcoming Methodological Nationalism in Japanese Studies

Author(s): Aike P. Rots
Published in: Toshiba International Foundation 30th Anniversary Essay Contest, 2019
Publisher: European Association for Japanese Studies

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion, by Fabio Rambelli ed.

Author(s): Aike P. Rots
Published in: Journal of Religion in Japan, Issue 8/1-3, 2019, Page(s) 207-213, ISSN 2211-8330
Publisher: Bloombsbury Academic
DOI: 10.1163/22118349-00703007