Gesine Foljanty-Jost

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Gesine Foljanty-Jost (* 1952 in Lauenburg / Elbe ) is a German Japanologist , political scientist and university professor of Japanese studies . In 1992 she founded the subject of Japanese Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), the first and so far last re-establishment of the subject in the eastern German federal states.

Life

Foljanty-Jost studied political science , sociology and Japanese studies from 1970 to 1975 at the University of Bonn , the Free University of Berlin (FUB) and at the Tokyo State University (Tōdai). In 1975 she completed her studies as Magistra Artium (MA) at the FUB. After further research stays at the Tōdai and working as a Research Fellow at the East Asian Seminar FUB she earned her doctorate in 1986. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.) In Political Science from the FUB. After academic positions at the Research Center for Environmental Policy at the FUB, the State University of Niigata and the University of Trier , she received an offer to found the subject of Japanese Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), where she has since been a university professor for Japanology with a focus on "Economy, Politics and Society of Modern Japan". Between 1996 and 2006 Foljanty-Jost held visiting professorships at the universities of Tōdai , Waseda , Niigata and Nagoya .

research

After years of research on Japanese environmental policy, the research focus is primarily on civil society and questions of political participation in Japan . In this context, Foljanty-Jost and the historian Manfred Hettling founded the interdisciplinary German-Japanese graduate college "Form change in civil society - Germany and Japan in comparison" in 2007 , in which German and Japanese doctoral students on various topics of civil society with funding for over nine years from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the JSPS . Since 2008 she has been a member of the state research focus “Society and Culture in Motion” at the MLU. 1999–2002 she was a member of the research project: “Climate change networks in Japan and international comparison” at Tsukuba University , Japan. From 2003 to 2009 she headed the sub-project “Public Policy and Policy Networks in Global Civil Society” in the research project “Civil Society, the State and Culture in Comparative Perspective” at Tsukuba University in Japan. From 2010 to 2013 she was a corresponding member of the "Center for Social Capital Studies", section "Civil Society", a joint project with Senshū University Tokyo with funding from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology (MEXT) .

Scientific policy engagement

Foljanty-Jost initiated university partnerships with well-known universities in Japan, for example with Senshū University in 1996 , Tokyo State University in 2007 , Waseda University in 2008 , Dokkyō University in 2011 and Tsukuba University in 2012 . This created opportunities for professors and students across faculties for research and study stays in the other country and laid the foundations for cooperation projects.

In 1988 Foljanty-Jost was one of the founding members of the Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF). Until 1997 she was a member of the board, from 1994 to 1997 as chairwoman.

In 1995 she was one of the founding members of the German-Japanese Society Halle / Saalekreis eV (DJG), on whose board she worked until 1998. Today she is associated with society as honorary president. From 2002 to 2005 she was a member of the board of the Gesellschaft für Japanforschung eV (GJF), from 2008 to 2014 she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in the Max Weber Foundation , including its from 2012 to 2014 Chairperson. In addition to other functions, she has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Japanese-German Center Berlin and the German-Japanese Forum since 2008 .

After many years of work in academic committees at the MLU , she was elected Vice-Rector for Research and Young Scientists at the MLU in 2010. In this role she also took on responsibility for the areas of internationalization and equality. Since then, she has been involved in various functions in solving science-policy issues such as the evaluation of research funding programs, university profile building or strengthening the position of the humanities in research and teaching. She was a member of the expert commission for evaluating the joint funding of research buildings and large-scale equipment at GWK universities .

Awards

In 2014 she received the Order of the Rising Sun , Golden Rays on a ribbon from the Japanese government .

In 2015 the DFG honored her with the Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize .

In 2016, the Federal Republic of Germany awarded her the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Fonts (selection)

  • Economy and ecology in Japan - politics between growth and environmental protection . Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1995, ISBN 978-3-8100-1447-4 .
  • Communicate, control, correct - violence prevention in Japanese middle schools . Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2003. With Annette Erbe, Anne Metzler and Manuel Metzler, ISBN 978-3-631-51264-7 .
  • Citizens as partners - cooperative democracy in Japanese municipalities . Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, 2013. With Karoline Haufe and Mai Aoki, ISBN 978-3-658-02149-8 .
  • Local government reform in Germany and Japan - economization and democratization in a comparative perspective . Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009 (Ed.), ISBN 978-3-531-16125-9 .
  • Citizen and State in Japan . Halle an der Saale: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, 2013. With Momoyo Hüstebeck (Ed.), ISBN 978-3-86977-064-2 .
  • 50 years of Sanrizuka - rise, defeat and transformation of a resistance movement. In: David Chiavacci / Iris Wieczorek (eds.): Japan 2016 - Politics, Economy and Society . Association for Social Science Research on Japan, Iudicium, 2016, pp. 41–68, ISBN 978-3-86205-928-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Janocha: Gesine Foljanty-Jost - Schleswig-Holstein and Japan. Retrieved June 5, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Gesine Foljanty-Jost. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
  3. ^ IGK civil society. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Researchers. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
  5. ↑ CIVIL SOCIETY, THE STATE AND CULTURE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (Project Theme 2). Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
  6. ^ Organizations. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
  7. ↑ partner. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Portrait «VSJF Association for Japanese Research in the Social Sciences. Accessed on June 5, 2018 (German).
  9. ↑ 04. German-Japanese Society Halle / Saalekreis eV »German-Japanese Societies - Association of German-Japanese Societies eV In: Association of German-Japanese Societies eV ( vdjg.de [accessed on June 5, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Japan layout Horst J. Plambeck: members of GJF. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
  11. ↑ DIJ Newsletter 46, October 2012, p. 4. Accessed June 5, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Committees. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
  13. ^ Halle (Saale) - Händelstadt: News. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
  14. ↑ "First step to improve the situation for doctoral candidates". Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Silvia ZÖLLER: award for Gesine Foljanty-Jost: Japanese Ambassador confers the Order of the Rising Sun . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on June 5, 2018]).
  16. ↑ DFG - German Research Foundation - Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize 2015. Accessed June 5, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Award: Japanologist Gesine Foljanty-Jost receives the Federal Cross of Merit . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on June 5, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Foljanty-Jost, Gesine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Japanologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauenburg / Elbe