Pablo Figueroa (PhD) is a cultural anthropologist working at the intersection of anthropology, photography, and art. His interests encompass global sociopolitical and environmental challenges. For the past few years, his research has been centered on risk communication, disaster governance, and visual representations of natural and man-made disasters in Asia's Anthropocene.
Most recently, Figueroa has been engaged in the study of photographic tropes during Japan's Heisei era and how the camera was used to explore social responses to cultural change.
Pablo Figueroa has been faculty at Waseda University, Temple University, and Tsuda University, and currently teaches at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He has made presentations at numerous international conferences and his academic publications can be found here.
He lives in Tokyo.
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