Scott Musgrave-Takeda, PhD Candidate

I’m pleased to announce that my proposal to present at The Australian Sociological Association conference in November 2025 has been accepted. I will be presenting my research on critical environmental justice approaches to PFAS pollution in Okinawa but also make comment on the situation for Australian aboriginals facing concerns over contamination at Wreck Bay, in…

As of last month, my chapter for the Handbook of Japanese Civil Society, titled: “Contemporary Okinawan Civil Society and Exploring Environmental Justice” is now available for viewing. Many thanks to volume editors Professor Akihiro Ogawa (University of Melbourne) and Professor Simon Avenell (Australian National University) for their invitation to contribute to this volume. I wrote…

I received word a few weeks ago that my conference paper titled: “Water, Rights, and Resilience: Okinawa’s Battle Against PFAS Contamination and the Question of Indigeneity” has been accepted for presentation at East-West Centre’s International Graduate Student Conference in Hawaii next February. It is a pleasure to be accepted to present at the conference my…

On Thursday the 19th of October, I delivered my presentation of the issues surrounding the World Heritage listing of the Yanbaru forest and the actions of environmental activist, Akino Miyagi. I was joined by a modest audience of about 20 people with two scholars I had invited specifically for feedback, that of Dr Keisuke Mori,…

I’m pleased to say that I have been invited to speak at the University of Melbourne Japan Studies seminar, Inagaki Seminar for its 31st edition. I have been working in the background with these talks and am delighted to have been invited to present my research. During my presentation, I will be talking about civil…

A pleasure to report I was recently featured in the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, HDR spotlight in their monthly newsletter. This comes on the tail of my election as Postgraduate Student Representative with the organisation. Many thanks to the JSAA for featuring me.

In July I had the pleasure of presenting at the Oceanian Conference of International Studies 2023 at the University of Melbourne. It was the first time presenting at a conference in person as the pandemic or my field work had restricted attendance in previous instances. I attended the keynote speech on opening night by Professor…