Speakers

PresentersProgram
Uno Shigeki“The Final Dismantling of Japanese Conservatism and the Future of Democracy”
HLT Quan “Become Ungovernable: Democratic Living in the Time of Conversion”
Asuka Jusen “Unchanged Melody of the Undemocratic Energy/Climate Policy in Japan”
Gabriele Vogt “Aging Democracies, Silent Youth: How Population Aging Impacts Political Participation in Japan and the Asia-Pacific” (with Yosuke Buchmeier)
Veith Selk“The Crisis of Democratic Theory”
Yamamoto Kei“Twisting Plebiscite Democracy into Radical Democratic Politics”
Viktoria Huegel“An Appeal to Authority in Authoritarian Times”
Simon Avenell“Generationalism in Japan: Leave Them Kids (and Retirees) Alone!”
Shibata Saori “Hampered Digitalisation: Institutional Failure and New Instability in Japan”
Gabriele Michalitsch “From Competitive Entrepreneur to Violent Warrior: Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism, and Militarisation”
Hanno Jentzsch“Civic Self-Governance and the Erosion of Local Democracy in Japan’s Aging Rural Peripheries“
Suzuki Ayaka “Honorary Men and Neoliberal Femininity in Contemporary Japan” (online)
Shimizu Akiko“The Return of the Anti-Gender Movement in Japan”
Karsten Schubert “In Praise of Identity Politics”
Takeda Hiroko“The Politics of Life and Death in Japan: —Explorations through the Family-State Nexus”
Florentine Koppenborgtba
Jan Groos“Envisioning Alternative Governmentality”
Nakano Yoshihiro“Politics of Suiten: Prolegomena to Cartographic Strategies for Relational Degrowth“
Ulrich Brandtba
Misato Matsuoka “Conservative Knowledge Production and the U.S.-Japan Alliance in the Era of Trump”
Michal Kolmaš“Ontologies of Region Formation: Towards a Typology of Region Building in Asia”
Karin Narita “An Outline of a Theory of Civilizationisms: Japanese Conservatism and Civilizational Geopolitics”