Papers by Kambara (-Yamane) Yuko
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This paper focuses on university graduates and non-graduates in the southern Slovakian town Komár... more This paper focuses on university graduates and non-graduates in the southern Slovakian town Komárno using the results of a recent survey conducted in 2021. Komárno is not only a university town for the Hungarian minority but also an ethnically diverse place. This paper aims to describe the characteristics of the inhabitants of Komárno from the perspective of education, personal networks, and mobility based on the survey results. The number of university graduates has increased over the past decade, especially among the young Hungarians minority in Komárno. In addition, despite their population mobility, the personal networks of inhabitants beyond ethnicity reflect the characteristics of multi-ethnic towns.
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Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Social Analysis, 2017
This paper considers methodological questions regarding cultural/social anthropological research ... more This paper considers methodological questions regarding cultural/social anthropological research in multiethnic fields. Specifically, I attempt to reconsider the possibility of anthropological research by a “stranger” based on a research that I—a Japanese anthropologist—conducted in southern Slovakia. Anthropology originally developed as the study of other cultures; in some European countries, however, most anthropological research is conducted by anthropologists who are “at home”. For Slovak and Hungarian researchers, the Hungarian minority has been a common research target; therefore, many inhabitants, both ethnic Hungarians and Slovaks, have already experienced social research as subjects. Some interviewees get use to present a narrative expressing how they think about a certain topic. This research condition points to a fundamental question in the interviews of anthropological research. In this paper, therefore, my research experience is described to analyze reflexively my resea...
Japanese Slavic and East European Studies, 2011
ethnicity were working within their own cultural environments. The outline of the decentralized e... more ethnicity were working within their own cultural environments. The outline of the decentralized educational system in the non-Russian parts of the Empire seems to agree with the notion of 'the pluralistic Empire'. 3 The author seems to consider that he should have analysed the Muslim educational system in the Russian Empire in detail. It is true that showing the whole system was the effective way of analysis in the second part of this book. However, describing all ethnicities might not be the best way of approaching the Empire for an individual work. In this way, Hashimoto's work is a great achievement both in the fi eld of Russian history and in the fi eld of pedagogics. It will be desirable to share the outcome of this research outside our country, and to encourage debate among a wider readership from various disciplines.
Russian and East European Studies, 2018
In Central Europe, the Hungarian minority have been forced to become the national minority in som... more In Central Europe, the Hungarian minority have been forced to become the national minority in some countries following border changes in the region during the twentieth century-in particular, Slovakia, which counted among its population of 5 million people around 450,000 ethnic Hungarians. The Hungarian minority could not be ignored, especially in Slovak politics, and its party participated in the Slovak government from 1998 to 2006. This demonstrated to the world in general and to Western European countries in particular that Slovakia had become a European democratic country that could accept minority politicians in its government. Ethnic Hungarians had been a minority in (Czecho)Slovakia for at least 70 years, but they became significant political actors only after the end of the repressive communist government, which did not recognize their right to be active or speak as an ethnic minority. Democratization and the related idea of supporting political change from the socialist regime helped promote the establishment of minority solidarity. This study investigated the effects and limitation of minority solidarity, as influenced by such democratic values as collective ideas as freedom of expression, civic activity, market economy, Western political orientation, and minority rights and protections. This research adopted an anthological approach based on fieldwork in southern Slovakia, where the Hungarian minority lives as a regional majority. The
Yuko KAMBARA, 2019
Barbara Kacerová, Štefan Šutaj and Jana Šutajnová (eds.) 2019 Central European Connections in Nat... more Barbara Kacerová, Štefan Šutaj and Jana Šutajnová (eds.) 2019 Central European Connections in National Minorities’ Development at the Beginning of 21. Century. pp.123-134, Prešov: Universum (ISBN:9788089946112)
Yuko KAMBARA 2018 Hungarian “Minority” Networks and Borderland Community under Political Influenc... more Yuko KAMBARA 2018 Hungarian “Minority” Networks and Borderland Community under Political Influences of the Slovak-Hungarian Cross-border Cooperation. In Transboundary Symbiosis over the Danube 3: Rethinking the meaning of Symbiosis-Past Present and Future.Osamu Ieda and Susumu Nagayo (eds) pp.93-112, Tokyo: Waseda University Press. ISBN978-4-657-18003-2
Yuko Kambara 2017 Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Social Analysis 7:5-21
Yuko KAMBARA 2014 Slovak Perspectives on the Hungarian Minority: The Possibility of an Ethnograph... more Yuko KAMBARA 2014 Slovak Perspectives on the Hungarian Minority: The Possibility of an Ethnographic Approach to Nationalism and Multi-ethnic Experiences. In "Transboundary symbiosis over the Danube: EU integration between Slovakia and Hungary from a local border perspective (Slavic Eurasian Studies 27)", Osamu Ieda (ed.), pp.17-31, Sapporo: Slavic Research Center Hokkaido University. (ISBN: 978-4-938637-805)
Yuko KAMBARA 2015 Ethnic Symbiosis - Spolužitie on the Way to a Democratic State: Perspectives Re... more Yuko KAMBARA 2015 Ethnic Symbiosis - Spolužitie on the Way to a Democratic State: Perspectives Regarding “Ethnic Conflict” by Hungarian Minority Elites in Southern Slovakia Slavic Eurasian Studies In "Transboundary Symbiosis over the Danube 2: Road to a Multidimensional Ethnic Symbiosis in the Mid-Danube Region (Slavic Eurasian Studies 29)", Ieda Osamu and Nagayo Susumu (eds), pp.175-195, Sapporo: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center Hokkaido University. (ISBN:978-4-938637-80-4)
Book Reviews by Kambara (-Yamane) Yuko
KAMBARA Yuko 2012 Japanese Slavic and East European Studies 32:177-180
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