Name

Dr. Shibata Saori

Position

Lecturer

Affiliation

University of Sheffield, School of East Asian Studies

Research focus

Japan´s political economy (including the changing nature of work, the digital economy and Japan´s model of capitalism is transforming)

relevant Publications

Shibata, Saori. 2024. Contesting Precarity in Japan: The Rise of Nonregular Workers and the New Policy Dissensus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Saori Shibata. 2024. „The Contribution of Digitalization to Non-Inclusive Growth in Japan: A Regulationist Perspective on Post-Industrial Dynamics.“ Competition & Change. https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294241289585 [Online first]. (with Lechevalier, Simon)

Shibata, Saori and D.J. Bailey. 2024. „Regional Pathologies of Late-Stage Neoliberalization: The Case of Japan in East Asia.“ Economy and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2387986 [Online first].

Shibata, Saori. 2022. „Global Political Economy, Additional Blind Spots and the ‘US or Europe’ Problem: Lessons from East Asia.“ Global Political Economy 1(1): 173–187.

Shibata, Saori. 2021. „Digitalization or Flexibilization? The Changing Role of Technology in the Political Economy of Japan.“ Review of International Political Economy 29(5): 1549–1576.