This panel is part of our mission to facilitate global dialogues: making intersectional space for studying gender and race in and with Japan.
This event aims to bring together researchers working on issues of inequality and oppression in and with Japan, with a primary focus on gender and race, while prioritizing intersectionality as both a method and a perspective. As a method, intersectionality creates space for diverse conversations and invites scholars to advance research agendas that embrace greater nuance and complexity.
Recognizing that research on racism is inherently intersectional, and mindful of the significant body of scholarship addressing gender, sexism, and discrimination in Japan, this event seeks to experiment with a conversational format that bridges critical perspectives on race and gender.
Scholars from the Universities of Tokyo, Ritsumeikan, Kansai Gaidai, Kobe, Keio, and Cambridge will come together to collectively assess the current landscape of intersectional research on race and gender in Japan. Drawing on research and analyses from Mexico and Latin America, the session will also explore opportunities for co-developing new research trajectories, collaborative programs, and experimental initiatives.
Research on racism and intersectional oppressions worldwide urgently requires a global dialogue—one that dismantles notions of exceptionality and establishes common ground for examining how processes of dehumanization permeate social systems, albeit through varied terminological and analytical lenses. While dehumanization manifests in many forms, its racialized and gendered dimensions—viewed through an intersectional framework—provide a crucial starting point for building such common ground.
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Panellists
Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, Akiko Shimizu, Sachi Takaya, Kazuyoshi Kawasaka, Tomomi Yamaguchi, Yasuko Takezawa, Christopher Tso, Hiroki Ogasawara and Aki Son-Katada.
Global Racisms Institute for Social Transformation 