Sébastien Boret
Sébastien of Japan: Tohoku University has been recognised for his interdisciplinary and applied research on the anthropology of death and disaster and is Assistant Professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science of Tohoku U, Japan. Sébastien holds an M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Anthropology from Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of ‘Japanese Tree Burial: Kinship, Ecology and Death’ and was involved in many other publications. His current research concerns the politics of memorialisation in post-disaster societies in which he examines the concepts and roles of memory, religion and the State. His main fieldwork areas are Japan and Indonesia. Sebastien has taught at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University, Rigas Stradina University in Latvia and Tohoku Gakuin University in Japan. Sébastien is currently editor of the International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), a member of the Disaster and Crisis Anthropology Network (DICAN) in Europe, and an external advisor for a UNESCO “Memory of the World” project for the archives of the 2004 Indian Earthquake and Tsunami.