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ICHII Yoshifusa

Department / Course College of Social Sciences Department of Social Sciences

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Sociology
2.	Kinugasa Research Organization The institute of Humanities Human and Social Sciences

Academic background
1.	～2000/03	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Applied Sociology Major │ Graduate School, Division of Sociology │ Ritsumeikan University │ Completed Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology
2.	～1996/03	Doctoral Program (1st Semester) │ Western Philosophy Major │ Graduate School, Division of Letters │ Ritsumeikan University │ Completed Master of Arts
3.	～1994/03	Department of Philosophie │ College of Letters │ Ritsumeikan University │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2015/04	Professor(To the present) │ College of Industrial and Social Sciences │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2011/04 ～ 2015/03	Associate Professor │ College of Industrial and Social Sciences │ Ritsumeikan University

Research activities
1.		Leisure Studies Association

Subject of research
1.	Discussion on Sports and Culture
2.	Action sports / Lifestyle sports
3.	New sports
4.	Leisure Study
5.	Aging and Popular Culture

Research summary
①Sports culture theory ②Leisure studies ③Action sports / Lifestyle sports studies Sports and leisure are expected as not only interest on the social policies such as rich welfare society initiative and the promotion of health, but also "leverage" for people's participation in society. Then, With discussion towards maintaining social conditions where sports and leisure are established - for example, welfare state theory, labor hour theory and free time theory, I will consider how people enjoy sports and leisure, through analysis of "sports" and "leisure" discussed in the power network. According to such consideration, I will seek again the answer to a fundamental question "why do people want sports or leisure?

Present specialized field
Sociology, Sports science, Philosophy/Ethics, History of Thought (Keyword：Lifestyle sports, New sports, Surfing, Skateboard, Snowboard, BMX, Parkour, Sports climbing, cultural studies, Leisure Studies, Sports culture, Sociology of Sports, Olympic Studies, Sports tourism, Norbert Elias, Pierre Bourdieu, Henning Eichberg)

Papers
1.	2023/04/24	The capitalist realism of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games │ Contemporary Japan │ 35 (1),pp.58-72
2.	2019/03	“Creative Reconstruction” and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games: How Does the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games Influence Japan's Neoliberal Social Reform? │ The International Journal of Japanese Sociology │ 28,pp.96-109
3.	2020/03	New Sports" and Sports Tourism:Examining "New Sports" as a Resource for Sports Tourism Development │ Tourism Studies Review │ 8 (1),pp.71-83
4.	2002/02	Towards combining the sociological theories of Norbert Elias and Anthony Giddens │ 立命館言語文化研究 │ 13 (4),pp.199-207

Academic conference presentation
1.	2021/10/07	The 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a ‘Turning Point‘ for the Olympic Movement: Creative Reconstruction, Bio-PoliTICS and Capitalist Realism
2.	2020/02/18	2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and Lifestyle Sports：What is the current state and issues of lifestyle sports in Japan?
3.	2019/07/11	2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and Lifestyle Sports: What is the current state and issues of lifestyle sports in Japan?
4.	2018/07/11	“CREATIVE RECONSTRUCTION” AND　THE 2020 TOKYO OLYMPIC GAMES: How do the Olympic Games transform Japanese society into an “active society”?
5.	2018/02/23	“Creative reconstruction”and 2020 Tokyo Olympic Game:Disaster Capitalism, Celebration Capitalism and Olympic legacy
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researchmap Researcher code
6000029451