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SUMMARY:‘Personalized choices: redrawing the boundaries of families and 
 everyday life under neoliberal reform in Japan’ - Dr. Hiroko Takeda\, Un
 iversity of Sheffield
DTSTART:20071008T160000Z
DTEND:20071008T180000Z
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CONTACT:Dr. Barak Kushner
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Hiroko Takeda is Lecturer in Japanese Studies in the Schoo
 l of East Asian Studies\, University of Sheffield and Research Director of
  the cluster on Social Change and Transition in East Asia at the National 
 Institute of Japanese Studies. She completed her PhD at the School of East
  Asian Studies\, University of Sheffield\, and after having taught at Card
 iff University\, returned to the School.  She specializes in political soc
 iology and her research interests include gender and politics/political ec
 onomy in Japan and East Asia\, social and political theories\, biopolitics
  and governance\, political discourse analysis and the political function 
 of the discourse of ‘risk’. Recent publication includes: The Political
  Economy of Reproduction in Japan: Between Nation-State and Everyday Life 
 (RoutledgeCurzon\, 2005)\; and a co-authored article with Glenn D. Hook\, 
 ‘“Self-responsibility” and the Nature of the Postwar Japanese State:
  Risk through the Looking Glass’\, Journal of Japanese Studies\, Vol. 33
 \, No. 1 (2007).
LOCATION:Common Room\, Faculty of Oriental Studies
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