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Orie Sekimura

(関村オリエ)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Division of Global Social Sciences, Department of Community Design, Tokyo Woman's Christian University

Degree: Ph.D.（Human Geography）(Ochanomizu University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201901015988561374
researchmap Member ID: B000378619

Research Interests

13

Research Areas

2

Research History

4

Apr, 2024 - Present

Deputy Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Tokyo Woman's Christian University
Apr, 2022 - Present

Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo Woman's Christian University
Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2022

Associate Professor, Faculty of Literature, Gunma Prefectural Women's University
Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2015

Lecturer, Faculty of Literature, Gunma Prefectural Women's University

Committee Memberships

6

Apr, 2024 - Present

Member of Gender Equality Promotion Council, Suginami City
Apr, 2023 - Present

Member, Geographical Review of Japan Editorial Specialist Committee, The Association of Japanese Geographers
Apr, 2023 - Present

Representative, Research Group on Gender and Space/Place, The Association of Japanese Geographers
Oct, 2018 - Sep, 2022

Member of Gender Equality Promotion Committee, Gunma Prefecture
Sep, 2011 - Mar, 2015

Member of the Committee for "Comprehensive Support Project for City Center Revitalization", Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture

Awards

1

Nov, 2009

9th The Human Geographical Society of Japan Appreciation, The Human Geographical Society of Japan (HGSJ)

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Papers

24

Suburbs as Planned Spaces: Toward s Space for Production and Reproduction

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Annals of the Japan Association of Economic Geographers, 70(1) 21-45, 2024 Peer-reviewed
For Open Urban Spaces: The Possibility of Community Development Incorporating Gender Perspectives（Special Issue: The Essence of Walkables）

SEKIMURA Orie

CEL（Culture, Energy and Life）, 134 20-25, 2024 Invited
The Silk Industry and the Heritages of Modernization in Gunma Prefecture: Focusing on the Registration of a Heritage Site in Kiryu City

The Monthly Bulletin of the Institute for Social Science Senshu University, 715・716 26-44, 2023 Invited
The Shrinking Domestic Silk Industry and the Industrial Heritages Returning to Silk: The Case Study of Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan

The Monthly Bulletin of the Institute for Social Science Senshu University, 710・711 57-74, 2022 Invited
Gender and the Suburbs: Origin and Evolution of Planned Space in Post-War Japan

The Journal of history, 104(1) 226-262, 2021 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

39

Geography Reconsidered from Gender 25: Issues Surrounding Women's Mobility Part 2: Rural Areas

Sekimura Orie

Geography, 70(9) 12-13, 2025
Geography Reconsidered from Gender 22: Issues Surrounding Women's Mobility Part 1: Urban Areas

Sekimura Orie

Geography, 70(6) 8-9, 2025
Gender × Space - Where Women Are: Part 11 For the Space of Women and People

Orie Sekimura

We learn, 849 21, 2025
Gender × Space - Where Women Are: Part 10 The Space of the Automobiles

Orie Sekimura

We learn, 848 17, 2025
Gender × Space - Where Women Are: Part 9 Bodies as Spaces

Orie Sekimura

We learn, 847 17, 2025

Books and Other Publications

6

Understanding Gender and Urban Space from the Geographical Perspective

Edited by, Yoko Yoshida, Honami Kageyama

Kokon Shoin Publishers Ltd., 2024 (ISBN: 4772242376)
The Encyclopedia of Geography

Edited by, The Association of Japanese Geographers

Maruzen-publishing, 2023 (ISBN: 4621307932)
Doing Political Geographies

Edited by, Takashi Yamazaki

Nakanishiya Shuppan co.ltd., 2022 (ISBN: 4779516617)
Gender Geography and Changing Suburban Spaces

Orie Sekimura

Kokon Shoin Publishers Ltd., 2018 (ISBN: 4772253157)
Aging in the Metropolitan Area

Edited by, Takashi Inoue, Machiko Watanabe

Hara Shobo, 2014 (ISBN: 4562091940)

Professional Memberships

6

Research Projects

7

Local “Participation” of Male Residents in Transforming Suburban Spaces: Focusing on their Gender Reconstructions

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2025

Sekimura Orie
Reconstructing Places in Rikuzentakata, a Tsunami hit area of the Great East Japan Disaster: Highlighting a Geography of Emotion, Body, Gender and Fudo (milieu)

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2022
A Study on Transformation of Suburban Spaces and Reconstruction of "Masculinity"

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

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Gender Geography and Changing Suburban Spaces

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2018

Sekimura Orie
Transforming suburban spaces and reconstructing gender roles through community participation

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2017

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