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Associate Professor Gonzalez de la Fuente Eduardo
Faculty, Affiliation
Center for the Study of Global Cultures and Societies , College of Human and Social Sciences
Associate Professor
College and School Educational Field
Laboratory
Academic Background
Career
Kanazawa University Center for the Study of Global Cultures and Societies Associate Professor(2024/07-)
Autonomous University of Barcelona Department of Translation and Interpreting and East Asian Studies Postdoctoral Research Associate(2024/01-2024/05)
Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media & Culture Postdoctoral Research Fellow(2022/01-2024/01)
University of the Ryukyus Faculty of Global and Regional Studies Japan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow(2022/04-2022/11)
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Center for Research on North America Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher(2021/08-2022/01)
El Colegio de México Center for Asian and African Studies Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher(2020/09-2021/08)
Year & Month of Birth
Academic Society
The Association for Cultural Studies (ACS)
The European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
Nippon, Spanish and Latin American Academic Confederation (CANELA)
The Spanish Association for East Asian Studies (AEEAO)
The Association of Spanish Scientists of Japan (ACE Japan)
Award
○Best Doctoral Dissertation(2021)
Specialities
Sociology of culture、Okinawan studies、Martial arts culture
Speciality Keywords
Martial arts,Popular culture,Cultural circulation Japan-Spain,Cultural circulation Japan-Mexico,Okinawa,Boxing literature
Research Themes
Martial arts and Popular culture, Cultural circulation Japan-Spain, Cultural circulation Japan-Mexico, Okinawa, Boxing literature
Books
Papers
- Compreendendo o mundo através do karate: uma análise pelo prisma das relações internacionais Marcelo Alberto de Oliveira,Eduardo González de la Fuente,Roberto Marques Leão Silva,Gustavo Oliveira Brito dos Santos Materiales para la Historia del Deporte 30 50 2025/12/15
- Understanding the world through karate: an analysis through the prism of international relations Materiales para la Historia del Deporte. 30 70 2025/12
- Luchadores, Monsters, and Karate Killers: The Early Reception of East Asian Martial Arts in Mexican Cinema Martial Arts in Latin Societies 73 2025/03
- Fighting across Reality: Otherworlds, Parallel Dimensions, and the Multiverse in Martial Arts Fiction The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives 88 2024
- La décolonialité comme nouveau paradigme pour étudier les arts martiaux George Jennings,Eduardo González de la Fuente,Rachelle Peneyra Arts martiaux et cultures: Évolution des pratiques et nouvelles formes sociales. 143 2025
- Religion and Identity in Karate: Politics amidst Okinawan Heritage and Japanese Sport Religion and Sport in Japan 188 2024
- Recentering the Cartographies of Karate: Martial Arts Tourism in Okinawa González de la Fuente Eduardo Ido Movement for Culture. Journal of Martial Arts Anthropology 21 3 51 2021
- Supernatural is Subaltern: the Border Representation of Latinx Folklore and Martial Arts in Seis Manos González, Eduardo,Cabrera, Angélica Latinx Representation in Contemporary Popular Culture and New Media 152 2024
- Japan and Spain in the 1960s: International Relations, Economy, and Culture Japan in the 1960s: Ten Years of Turning Points 160 2024
- Review of Ankō Itosu. The Man. The Master. The Myth. Biography of a Legend, by Thomas Feldmann Eduardo González De La Fuente Revista de Artes Marciales Asiaticas 17 1 108 2022/05/20
- In which Ways is Karate (dō) Japanese? A Consideration on Cultural Images of Bushidō and Nihonjinron in the Postwar Globalization of Martial Arts González de la Fuente Eduardo Journal of Inter-Regional Studies: Regional and Global Perspectives (Waseda University Tokyo) 2021
- From Olympic Sport to UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage: Okinawa Karate Between Local, National and International Identities in Contemporary Japan González, Eduardo,Niehaus, Andreas 2020
- 현대 일본의 지역, 국가, 국제 정체성 사이의 오키나와 가라테 González, Eduardo,Niehaus, Andreas 인류무형문화유산 세계의 전통무예를 만나다. 유네스코아태무형유산센터, 유네스코국제무예센터 43 58 2021
- Acheronta movebo. Resiliencia y revolución en ‘The Mexican’ (1911) de Jack London González de la Fuente Eduardo 452ºF Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada 2016
Conference Presentations
- Globalization is a Small Place from the Past. A Reinterpretation of Okinawan Karate Mythologies set in the Times of the Ryūkyū Kingdom (1429-1879)(conference：16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, Ghent University)(2021/08)
- On Paradox and the Sociological Imagination as a Method for Martial Arts & Combat Sports Research(conference：Qualitative Research Methods and Social Theory Research Group (QRMST) seminar at Cardiff Metropolitan University)(2023/12)
- Who is the busaganashi? Tutelary gods, karate, and the martial culture of Okinawa(conference：The Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) and the Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) joint conference, Hyogo University)(2025/04)
- Media Aspects of Japanese Martial Arts in Transnational Popular Culture(conference：Research Seminar Series of the School of Journalism, Media, and Culture, Cardiff University)(2023/11)
- What Is ‘Mexicanime´? Global Stories and Global Styles in Netflix’s Seis Manos (2019)(conference：Mechademia Conference Asia, Kyoto Seika University and The Kyoto Manga Museum)(2025/06)
- The Tao of Magical Realism: Martial Arts and Mexican Folklore in Seis Manos(conference：50 Years After Bruce Lee: Asian Martial Arts On-Screen and Off - 8th International Martial Arts Studies Conference, University of Sheffield)(2023/07)
- The Karate Kid Problem: Or is The Reality/Fiction Conundrum of Japanese Martial Arts Misleading?(conference：New Opportunities for Cultural Research on Japan through Martial Arts and Media, Kanazawa University)(2024/11/13)
- Okinawan Studies in Spain and Latin America(conference：XXXVII International Congress of the Nippon, Spanish and Latin American Academic Confederation, University of the Ryukyus)(2025/05)
- Rethinking Okinawa studies beyond (geo)politics(conference：Round table on Okinawa: Recent research on its history and culture in the Spanish Language The Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de Mexico)(2025/05)
- Return to Okinawa, Meet the Godhand, enter the Soft Power of Muhammad Ali no Kenpo. Geopolitics of Japanese Martial Arts in Netflix Anime(conference：Martial Arts, Tradition and Globalisation - 7th Martial Arts Studies Conference, University of Lausanne and The Olympic Museum)(2022/06)
- Fighting Hallyu with Cool: Martial Arts as a Testing Ground for Cultural and Creative Industries in Japan and South Korea(conference：International Research Workshop: The Global Circulation of Korean and Japanese Cultural Industries, GREGAL UAB & ECIPE, UAB)(2021/07)
- Karate Tourism in Okinawa and the Disjunctions upon Japan’s most Famous Martial Art(conference：Symbols of Japan, Japan as Symbols: An Interdisciplinary Workshop, Cardiff University)(2023/06)
- The semiotic entrée of Japanese martial arts in Mexican cinema during the 1950s-1960s(conference：International Symposium "Cultural Borders Crossing and Transformation: When Literature and Art Deterritorialize", Kanazawa University)(2025/07)
- God of Theater in Fujian, God of Karate in Okinawa: The Cleansing of Tiandu Yuanshuai for the Consecration of a New Martial Arts Cult(conference：International Research Workshop: Interrogating the Notion of ‘Cult’ as a Social Formation in Asian Religions, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore)(2021/10)
Others
Arts and Fieldwork
Patent
Theme to the desired joint research
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Competitive research funding,Contribution
Collaborative research,Consignment study
Classes (Bachelors)
Classes (Graduate Schools)
International Project
○GREGAL Research Group: Japan-Korea-Catalonia/Spain Cultural Circulation(2020-)