Dear all,

 

I am pleased to announce that the following symposium will be held at the end of September.

 

 

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Symposium: The politics of the far right in Japan

 

Date: 29th September 2024, 15:00-17:45

Venue: Room 304, Building No.3 at Waseda Campus, Waseda University (In-person only)

1-104 Totsukamachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo

 

15:00-15:30 Mirza Redžić

Far-right in the Far East: A View from the Balkans

 

15:30-16:00 Jasmina Gavrankapetanović-Redžić

Artistic and Cultural Preferences of the Far-right

 

16:00-16:30 Yoojin Koo

Conservative Movements and Immigration Politics in Japan

 

16:30-17:00 Naoto Higuchi

The Phantom at the Opera: Migration Policies and Far-right Politics in Japan

 

17:00-17:15 Break

17:15-17:45 Discussion

 

Profiles of panelists:

 

Mirza Redžić is an independent social sciences scholar previously affiliated with the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Sarajevo. He has 15+ years of experience in the European External Action Service (diplomatic service in charge of international relations of the European Union). He is a Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellow (2023-2024) and a visiting scholar at Waseda University. His interests include the history of nationalism, political psychology and far-right politics.

 

Jasmina Gavrankapetanović-Redžić is an Assistant Professor at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University. She holds an MA from the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, Japan and an MSc in Culture and Society from LSE. She obtained a PhD in Art and Media Theory at the University of Arts, Belgrade. She was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science international research fellow at the Faculty of Policy Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto (2018-2020). Her main fields of research are politics of memory and identity in the Balkans and Okinawa, the entanglement of gender and violence, and material culture. She has published her research in Third Text and South-Eastern Europe.

 

Yoojin Koo is Assistant Professor at International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. Her research interests cover areas such as Japanese conservative movements, political process, social movements, civil society, state-society relations. Her published book and articles include Hoshushimin Shakai to Nihon Seiji - Nippon Kaigi no Dōin to Adobokashi: 1990-2012 (Conservative Civil Society and Japanese Politics - Mobilization and Advocacy of the Japan Conference: 1990-2012), Tokyo: Seikyusha, 2022, "A Configurative Approach to Conservative Mobilization in Japan: The Effect of Combining Political Opportunities and Threats," Japanese Political Science Review, Vol. 5, 2020.

 

Naoto Higuchi is professor of sociology at Waseda University. His recent work includes: "Immigration and Nationalism in Japan," in Michael Samers and Jens Rydgren eds., Migration and Nationalism, Edward Elgar 2024, "What Is New about New Migration Policy? From Recruitment of 'Nonlabor' Workers to Selection by Neoliberal Meritocracy," Social Science Japan Journal 2024, "Logics of Strategic Racism in the Anti-Hate Speech Law Era: Analyzing the Discourse against Zainichi Koreans in Japanese Right-Wing TV Programs," Seoul Journal of Korean Studies 2023.

 

 

 

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Naoto Higuchi

School of Human Sciences, Waseda University

2-579-15, Mikajima, Tokorozawa 3591192, Japan

higuchinaoto@waseda.jp

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