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東京大学公共政策大学院 | GraSPP / Graduate School of Public Policy | The university of Tokyo

GraSPP Research Seminar/SSU Forum “Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline”
Prof. David Leheny May 10, 2019

GraSPP Research Seminar

 

Title: “Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline”

Speaker: Professor David Leheny, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda Universtiy

Date: Friday, May 10 2019

Time: 10:30-12:00

Venue: SMBC Academia Hall, 4F International Academic Research Building, the University of Tokyo (MAP)

Language: English

Registration: Needed. Please register from here

Co-hosted by: Security Studies Unit, Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo

Abstract:
In this talk, Leheny will introduce his book Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline (Cornell University Press, 2018), focusing on case studies illustrating how a national narrative of “the long postwar” has shaped the ways in which emotion can be deployed in Japanese debates about politics, status, and international relations. The book challenges new analyses of emotion and politics more broadly by focusing on the role of narrative in structuring emotional claims that are usually distant from the actual feelings of actors themselves.

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