Chika Watanabe

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Items
- Items is a space for engagement with insights from the work of the Council and the social sciences.
- Centering Trans Networks for a More Equitable Academia
  by Anne Esacove, Ava L.J. Kim, Davy Knittle, Kel Kroehle, Aylin Malcolm, Monique Perry and Brooke Jamieson Stanley
- Do Primary Voters Want Partisan Polarization?
  by Danielle M. Thomsen
- Social Media and Democracy Research Grants Program Update: September 2019
  by Alondra Nelson and Jason Rhody
The Immanent Frame
- The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere.
- What are oaths good for?
  by Mona Oraby
- Interreligious organizing is messy
  by Alison L. Boden
- The religious left: Memory, trajectory, relevance
  by Richard L. Wood
Kujenga Amani
- Kujenga Amani facilitates the exchange of ideas about diverse aspects of peacebuilding in Africa.
- An Interview with APN Alumnus Dr. Admire Mare
  by African Peacebuilding Network
- An Interview with 2019 APN Grantee Abubakari Ahmed
  by African Peacebuilding Network
- Rethinking Responses to Displacement in Northeast Nigeria
  by Titilope Ajayi
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Chika Watanabe is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. Her dissertation looks at how a Shinto-based Japanese NGO strives to create certain forms of persons and notions of community through agricultural and "spiritual" trainings in the ambiguous space between "the religious" and "the secular."