Isao Fujimoto

Senior Lecturer SOE Emeritus

Community Development
Founder of Asian American Studies
Founder of Graduate Program in Community Development

Ph.D., Cornell University

Interests: Strategies for community empowerment, rural revitalization, celebrations and symbols for building community solidarity, sustainable agriculture and appropriate technology, San Joaquin Valley, Third World, Pacific Rim, Japan, and Micronesia

E-mail: ifujimoto@ucdavis.edu

Courses Taught:

Orientation to Community Resources (CRD 47)

CRD 153 International Community Development: Community and Everyday Life in Japan . Offered in Kyoto Japan even numbered summers.

Recent Publications:

Fujimoto, I. Communities in the San Joaquin Valley: Relations between scale of farming, water use and the quality of life. Presented to the Subcommittee on Family Farms, Rural Development and Special Studies, Sacramento, 479-501, October 1977. In _Obstacles to Strengthening the Family Farm System_. Hearings before the Subcommittee Family Farms, Rural Development, and Special Studies of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, 95th Congress, 1st session Serial No. 95-BB, (Richard Nolan, Chair, Minnesota), U.S. Government Printing Office, 736 pp., 1977. (Also in Abourezk hearings, pp. 1374-1396.).

Fujimoto, I. People in the University. Proceedings of a conference to initiate the redirection of priorities for university research. In _Rural Research in the USDA_, hearings before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, 95th Congress, 2nd session, May 4-5, 1978,(Senator Patrick Leahy, Chair), U.S. Government Printing Office, 196-218, 1978. (Also in Abourezk hearings, pp. 1169-1209.)

Fujimoto, I., & Fisk, Emmit. What research gets done at land grant colleges: Internal factors at work. In _Rural Research in the USDA_, hearings before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, 95th Congress, 2nd session, May 4-5, 1978,(Senator Patrick Leahy, Chair),U.S. Government Printing Office, 218-233, 1978.

Fujimoto, I., with Rodefeld, R., Flora, J., Voth, D., & Converse, J. _Change in Rural __America__: Causes, consequences and alternatives_. St. Louis, MO: C.V. Mosby, 1978.

Fujimoto, I. The values of appropriate technology and visions for a saner world. In R. Dorf, & Y. Hunter (Eds.), _Appropriate Visions_. San Francisco, CA: Boyd and Frazer, 170-176, 1978.

Fujimoto, I. The agricultural crisis and local self-reliance. _Rice, International Trade and Food Self Sufficiency_, Tokyo, Japan, 1989.

Fujimoto, I. Reflection on the other Japan. _Gendai Nogyo_, (Modern Agriculture), Tokyo, Japan, January 1989.

Fujimoto, I. "Lessons from Abroad in Community Revitalization: The one product, one village movement in Japan," _International Community Development Journal_ January l992.

Fujimoto I and Larry Shinagawa "Asian Americans in Rural America" in Encyclopedia of Rural America Volume One. Gary A Goreham editor, ABC-Clio l997,Santa Barbara California.

Fujimoto I and Marilu Carter . Getting to Know the Central Valley Ca. Institute for Rural Studies ,1998.

Fujimoto,I and Gerardo Sandoval* **Central Valley** Partnership:* A Collaborative Multi-ethnic Approach to Organizing Immigrant Communities UCDavis Law Review Vol 38,No 5, March 2005.

Fujimoto I and Gerardo Sandoval "Harnessing Hidden Energy :California Central Valley's Rich Cultural Capital: forthcoming in Berkeley Law Review ,2007.

Related Links:

http://communitydevelopment.ucdavis.edu