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Aya H. Kimura is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai`i-Mānoa and researches intersections among technoscience, sustainability, and social justice. Her books include Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima (Duke University Press: recipient of the Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society for Social Studies of Science), Hidden Hunger: Gender and Politics of Smarter Foods (Cornell University Press: recipient of the Outstanding Scholarly Award from the Rural Sociological Society), Science by the People: Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental Knowledge (Rutgers University Press, co-authored with A. Kinchy), and Food and Power: Visioning Food Democracy in Hawai‘i (University of Hawai`i Press, coeditor with K. Suryanata). Her forthcoming book (University of California Press) explores fermentation and microbiopolitics through the case of tsukemono or Japanese pickles.

木村あや。ハワイ大学マノア校社会学教授。テクノサイエンス、持続可能性、社会正義の交差点を研究している。著書に『Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima』(デューク大学出版会:科学社会学会レイチェル・カーソン書籍賞受賞)、『Hidden Hunger: Gender and Politics of Smarter Foods』(コーネル大学出版会:農村社会学会優秀学術賞受賞)など。『 Science by the People: Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental Knowledge』 (ラトガース大学出版会、A. Kinchy との共著)、および 『Food and Power: Visioning Food Democracy in Hawai’i』 (ハワイ大学出版会、K. Suryanata との共編)。刊行間近の著書(カリフォルニア大学出版会)では、日本の漬物の事例を通して、発酵と微生物学政治を探求している。

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