International Workshop

Accountability in Islamic Economy:Transforming Religiosity and Religious
Experience in Muslim Societies
10 November 2023 | 14.00 - 16.00 (Paris time)
Onsite at Campus Condorcet, Bâtiment Recherche NordRoom 0.006, 14 cours des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers

Contact: events_ffj@ehess.fr
This international workshop will discuss the current situation of the halal economy from the perspectiveof the concept of ‘accountability’.
With the development of Islamic finance and the halal industry in various societies in the Islamicworld, Islamic economy has become focal point of discussion in the contemporary global economy.
Previous literatures have attempted to consider the development of these economic activities interms of the religious preferences of Muslim consumers and Islamic principles in economic practices,such as halal consciousness in halal food industry, and avoidance of riba (interest) in Islamic finance.
However, the development of Islamic economic activities is also considered from the perspective of
the surrounding market environment, including institutions and norms. In particular, the spread of theconcept of audit culture and accountability, defined as being responsible for what one does and beable to offer a satisfactory reason for it, or the degree to which this happens, becomes the centralprinciple for these economic activities. In this situation, various economic systems and practices
have been flourishing.
As Marilyn Strathern, François Gauthier and other researchers indicate, the spread of neoliberalism
and consumerism has also increased the emphasis on an evidence-based setting under the conceptof ‘accountability’. In this environment, religious experiences and religiosity are also exploring newdesigns and norms under accountability principles, and various Muslim communities in the world
have transformed their social values accordingly, through the development of the Islamic economy,
including the halal industry and Islamic finance.
This international workshop, therefore, considers the development of accountability of Islamic
economy from the case studies of halal tourism and industry in Muslim societies.

Programme(All the times indicated are in Japan time)

14.00 | Opening remarks
Mayuko YAMAMOTOPhD Candidate, EHESS
Shin YASUDA
Associate Professor, Takasaki City University of Economics

Presentation 1Rethinking Halal Tourism in Pious
Neoliberalism: Islamic Economy and Moral
Accountability in Muslim Societies
14.10 - 14.40
Shin YASUDA
Associate Professor, Takasaki City University of Economics

Presentation 2

Being in Good Faith: Mutual Implications inHalal Certification in Taiwan
14.40 - 15.10
Yukari SAI
Associate Professor, Chiba Institute of Technology

15.10 | General discussion
15.50 | Closing remarks
Mayuko YAMAMOTOPhD Candidate, EHESS
Shin YASUDA
Associate Professor, Takasaki City University of Economics

Participants(alphabetic order)

Yukari SAI (Associate Professor, Chiba Institute of Technology)
Yukari Sai is an Associate Professor in Faculty of Social Systems Science, Chiba Institute ofTechnology, Japan. Her research interests include cultural anthropology of food and eating,halal industry in East Asia and Southeast Asia. She published several books and chapters inJapanese and English including ‘Muslim food consumption in China: Between qingzhen andhalal’ in Halal Matters: Islam, Politics and Markets in Global Perspective (Routledge, 2016).

Mayuko YAMAMOTO (PhD candidate, EHESS)Mayuko Yamamoto is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Centre d’Études Sociologiques etPolitiques Raymond Aron (CESPRA) at EHESS. After completion of her Master degrees inContemporary Philosophies (University of Tsukuba, Japan) and Political Studies (EHESS),
she currently conducts a PhD project on Muslim private schooling in France and the UK.
Focusing on their daily practices in the civic and religious socializations scenery, this study
aims to describe how the actors negotiate, adjust, and readapt their learning between thepublic values and Islamic norms.

Shin YASUDA (Associate Professor, Takasaki City University ofEconomics)
Shin Yasuda is an Associate Professor in Faculty of Regional Policy, Takasaki City Universityof Economics, Japan. He is also associate editor of Journal of Islamic Tourism, and editorial
board member of International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage. His researchinterests include Islamic tourism and religious tourism in Islamic countries, history of tourism
in Middle Eastern countries, and theoretical studies in anthropology of tourism. He publishededited book with Razaq Raj and Kevin Griffin titled Religious Tourism in Asia: Tradition andChange through Case Studies and Narratives (CABI, 2018), and various articles on Islamictourism and religious tourism in English and Japanese.