Prof. Dr. Tamaki Endo
Saitama University
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
E-mail: endo(at)mail.saitama-u.ac(dot)jp
Web: http://s-read.saitama-u.ac.jp/researchers/pages/researcher_en/lxUNFSBx
34th Daido Life Foundation Incentive Award for Area Studies (2019)
http://www.daido-life-fd.or.jp/english/
Period of stay: Oct 10th-26th 2016
Funding institution(s)/ fellowship: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Research Focus
Informality in Asian mega cities,
Risk response,
Urban development,
Global value chain
Specialties: Regional economics (urban), development economics, Area studies (Southeast Asia)
Education and professional career
Apr. 1995 - Mar.1999
Faculty of Law, Kyoto University (BA. Law, Mar.1999)
Apr.1999 - Mar. 2001
Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University (MA. Economics, Mar.2001)
Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1)
Jun. 2003 - Jun. 2005
Visiting Research Fellow, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Apr. 2001-Mar. 2004
Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University (Ph.D. May 2007)
Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD), Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2008
Research Fellow, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University Research Fellow, GCOE Program, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Apr. 2008 - Sep. 2011
Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Saitama University
Oct 2011-Recent
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Saitama University
Apr. 2012-Mar. 2013
Visiting Scholar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Selected Publications
Tamaki Endo, ‘Living with Risk: Precarity & Bangkok’s Urban Poor’, NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, Feb 2014. (328 pages)
Kenta Goto, Tamaki Endo, ‘Upgrading, relocating, or going informal? Local survival strategies in the era of globalization: the case of the Thai garment industry’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 44. No.1, 2014, pp.1-18. (On line, 29 May 2013. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00472336.2013.794365.
Kenta Goto, Tamaki Endo, ‘Labor-Intensive Industries in Middle-Income Countries: Traps, Challenges and the Importance of the Domestic Market’, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy. Vol. 19, Issue 2, 2014, pp.369-386. (On line, 05 Feb 2014. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13547860.2014.880283)
Tamaki Endo and Kenta Goto, “Value chain orientation and employment strategies amidst global competition and local labor shortages: The case of the Thai garment industry”, Working Paper No.11, Faculty of Economics, Saitama University, 2015.11.