ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

It is not possible to thank everyone who has helped to bring this book into being, but I would like to name a few.

Those who introduced me to Columbia River salmon worlds: Gus Fennerty, Robert Warren, and Mike Josephson.

Those who taught me to observe, question, and write in ways that shaped this project: Laura Sellers-Earl, Zaz Hollander, Andy Dolan, Andrea Kennett, Rena Lederman, Carolyn Rouse, and Will Howarth.

Those who helped me to achieve some degree of proficiency in Japanese: Setsuko Soga, Naoko Yamamoto, Sakae Fujita, Cornell University’s FALCON program, SIL Sapporo Nihongo Gakko (especially Harumi Shima), the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, and the volunteers at Sapporo’s Mado program.

Those who offered intellectual community, guidance, and introductions in Japan: Takami Kuwayama, Yutaka Watanabe, Masahide Kaeriyama, Noboru Ishikawa, Mohashi Gergely, Shiaki Kondo, Masahiro Koizumi, Mikine Yamazaki, Koji Yamazaki, Nozomi Aruga, and Satsuki Takahashi.

Those who actively participated in this research project: Aliaky Nagasawa, along with the many people whose words are in this book but who are referred to by pseudonyms, especially the Motozumi family, who invited me into their home.

Family and friends in Japan: the Miyoshi-Suzuki-Morichi family (especially Hiroko, Yuko, and Mariko), Yoshie Hirukawa, the Ohno family (especially Tamaki and Osamu), the Baba family (especially Yukiko), Yufuko Mochizuki, and Toshihiro and Yumiko Matsuda.

Family and friends in other places: Peter Christensen, John Law, Pierre du Plessis, Bodil Selmers, Rachel Cypher, David Pollard, Linda Oldenkamp, Matt Loftis, Kate Muslinger, Noa Vaisman, Ofer Ravid, Meredith Root-Bernstein, Katy Overstreet, and Maxine Swanson. Zac Caple, Daena Funahashi, Annika Capelán, and Gitte Nielsen not only provided much needed encouragement, but also helped with the seemingly endless practical tasks needed to finish a book.

Those who provided intellectual guidance, collegial advice, and friendship: Marianne Lien, Donna Haraway, Andrew Mathews, Knut Nustad, Michael Hathaway, ann-elise lewallen, and Karen Hebert, along with many others. Special thanks to Alan Christy, who helped with some of the translations, in addition to other advice.

The institutions who provided funding: UC Pacific Rim Research Program (Advanced Graduate Fellowship), UCSC STEPS Institute, UCSC Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, UC Chancellor’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, the scholarship programs of the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, and the Carlsberg Foundation’s Distinguished Associate Professor Fellowship program (Grant CF17-0872).

Those who enabled this project to achieve publishable form and who were patient through its many delays: Lorri Hagman, Joeth Zucco, Ben Pease, Judy Loeven, Scott Smiley, and four generous reviewers.

Lastly, there are three people who have been so important to this project—and my life—that they deserve the final spot in this list of thanks: Anna Tsing, and my parents, John and Jan Swanson.

I would also like to express my gratitude to the publishers who have granted permission to reprint sections of the following texts in this book: (with coauthor Gisli Palsson), “Down to Earth: Geosocialities and Geopolitics,” in Environmental Humanities 8, no. 2 (2016): 149–71, courtesy of Duke University Press; “Landscapes, by Comparison: Practices of Enacting Salmon in Hokkaido, Japan,” in The World Multiple: The Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds, edited by Keiichi Omura, Grant Otsuki, Atsuro Morita, and Shiho Satsuka, 105–22 (London: Routledge, 2019), reproduced by permission of Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, a division of Informa PLC; “Shadow Ecologies of Conservation: Co-Production of Salmon Landscapes in Hokkaido, Japan, and Southern Chile” Geoforum 61 (2015): 101–10, used with permission from Elsevier.