Journal Articles

• Hart, T.G.B, Ramoroka, K.H, Jacobs, P.T, and Letty, B.A (2015). Revealing the Social Face of Innovation. South African Journal of Science, 111(9-10), pp. 01-06. https://doi.org/10.17159/SAJS.2015/20140126
• Ramoroka, K, Ngwenya, M, Bodenstein, B, Hart, T, and Jacobs, P (2013). Mapping Innovation Technologies for Rural Development in the Mopani District Municipality, South Africa. Human Sciences Research Council, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa, pp. 1-54.
• Mhula-Links, A, Ngwenya, M, Bodenstein, B, Hart, T, and Jacobs, P (2013). Mapping Innovation for Rural Development in Dr. Ruth Segomatsi District Municipality, South Africa. Human Sciences Research Council, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa.

Book Reviews

• Bodenstein, B. (2021) Review of “The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace” by Gordon Mathews, Linessa Dan Lin, and Yang Yang. Anthropology Southern Africa, 44(1), pp. 47-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2021.1903332
• Bodenstein, B. (2017) Review of “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins” by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Anthropology and Humanism, 42(2), pp. 230-232. https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12178

Theses

• Bodenstein, B. (2024). Lost in Neverland: Forty Years of Non-institutionalised Immigrant Policy and the Implications for the Lives of Immigrants in Japan, 1980 – 2020, PhD Candidate, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. (Expected Graduation 2025)
• Bodenstein, B. (2017). In Search of Advice: (Re) Defining Meaningful Access to Justice in the District Courts of Johannesburg. MA Thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities.

Conference Presentations

• Bodenstein, B. (2024). Unseen Hands: The Subtle Power of International Friendship Associations in Shaping Ibaraki’s Immigrant Landscape, in Japan. NCCR on the Move. Neuchâtel Graduate Conference of Migration and Mobility Studies. Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
• Bodenstein, B. (2024). Integrating or Isolating? Examining Japan’s Globalization Efforts through Ibaraki Prefecture’s Approach to Immigration. The Migration Conference (TMC), Mexico.
• Bodenstein, B. (2023). Piloting Pluralism: Tabunka Kyousei in Ibaraki Prefecture and the Role of International Friendship Associations in Japan’s Non-Institutionalized Immigration Policies (1980–2020). Presented at the 4th International Joint Conference of Kyoto University’s “IAfP,” Kyoto, Japan.
• Bodenstein, B. (2023). (De) Constructing Neverland: Ibaraki Prefecture’s tabunka kyōsei (globalization plan) as a case of institutionalized non-immigration policy? Presented at the Consortium for Asian and African Studies, Tokyo, Japan.
• Bodenstein, B. (2023). Hand-Cash Jobs And The Hyper-Precarious Lives Of Immigrants In Japan: An Examination Of The Increasing Presence Of Immigrants In The Part-Time Labour Sector. Presented at the Annual Conference for JDPSR, Tokyo, Japan.
• Bodenstein, B. (2022). Japan’s Agriculture and Ruralities in the 21st Century: an analysis of how policy reviews the role of overseas workers to address labour shortages. Presented at the Japanese Association For Migration Policy Studies (JAMPS) Annual Conference, Shizuoka, Japan.
• Bodenstein, B. (2016). Bringing Life to Law in Johannesburg’s Magistrate Courts. Presented at Contemporary Ethnography Across Disciplines (CEAD), South Africa.
• Bodenstein, B. (2014). Experiences of Anthropologists in the Context of South Africa’s Development Policy-making Environment. Presented at the Anthropology Southern Africa (ASNA) Annual Conference.
• Bodenstein, B. (2012). Money, Music and Motives; making sense of missionary work within the confines of the ODI-Prison. Presented at the Anthropology Southern Africa (ASNA) Annual Conference.

• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Scholarship for Doctoral Studies, Japan (2021 – 2023)
• International Organization for Migration (IOM) Internship (university recommendation) (2022), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies International Education Support Fund, Japan
• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Scholarship for Research Students, Japan (2020 – 2021)
• University of the Witwatersrand Postgraduate Masters Merit Bursary Award, South Africa (2016)
• Postgraduate fellowship, Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), South Africa (2016)
• University of Pretoria Postgraduate Merit Award, South Africa (2012)

Awards

• Bodenstein, B. (2022). Best Poster Award at the Annual Conference of Joint Doctoral Program for Sustainability Research, University of Electro-Communications.

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant for University of South Africa undergraduate course ‘Sustainability and Greed,’ Online (2020 – 2024)
• Teaching Assisting under Prof. Takeuchi, ‘Introduction to a History of Africa,’ Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2021)
• Adjunct Lecturer in The Department of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Development Studies course on ‘Ethnography and Theory’ (2019 – 2020)
• Junior Lecturer in The Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies, University of Pretoria, undergraduate course ‘Small Places, Large Issues: Exploring the Social Constructions of Comfort Zones and their Place in Perceptions of the Self and the Other’ (2017, 2019 & 2020)
• Teaching English as a foreign language in Sakai City, Ibaraki, Japan (2014 – 2015)

Professional Affiliations

• Japanese Association for Migration and Policy Studies (JAMPS)
• Japan Society for Afrasian Studies (JAHS)
• Anthropology of Southern Africa (ASNA)
• Contemporary Ethnography Across Disciplines (CEAD)

Public Appearances