Yuka Tomomatsu specializes in agrarian studies at the intersection of the global history of international development and cooperation, with a regional focus on inland West Africa. She earned her B.A. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley (2001), and her Ph.D. in Agriculture at the University of Tokyo (2015). She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of History, Princeton University (2018-19). Her recent book, Gendered Economies of Agriculture: The Transformation of Everyday Livelihoods in Northern Ghana (Akashi Shoten Co., Ltd., 2019, in Japanese), won Okita Memorial Prize for International Development Research in 2019 and Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS) Awards in 2020.

Fields of Interest

Economic Anthropology, Development Studies, Agrarian Studies, Family/Gender Studies, African Studies, Global History

Region

West Africa (Ghana and Burkina Faso)

Publications

The Aid That Hurts: How Inequality Breeds Scams, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Dignity

(in Japanese『グローバル格差を生きる人びと――「国際協力」のディストピア』)

Gendered Economies of Agriculture: The Transformation of Everyday Livelihoods in Northern Ghana

(in Japanese『サバンナのジェンダー ――西アフリカ農村経済の民族誌』)