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SUMMARY:N&N Debate 2025: Aram Hur's Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Join the panel for a debate on Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia (Cornell UP\, 2022)\, by Aram Hur. The event takes place in the Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre at the LSE\, or join us online on Facebook or YouTube\, from 1800 on Wednesday 4th June 2025. \nOur speakers\, Atsuko Ichijo and Yookyeong Im join the author\, Aram Hur\, for a debate on her book which investigates the impulse behind a sense of civic duty in democracies. Why\, she asks\, do some citizens feel a responsibility to vote\, pay taxes\, or take up arms in defense of one’s country? Through comparing democratic societies in East Asia and elsewhere\, Hur shows that the sense of obligation to be a good citizen—upon which the resilience of a democracy depends—emerges from a force long thought detrimental to democracy itself: national attachments. \nNarratives of Civic Duty won the 2023 Robert A. Dahl Award from APSA\, and was shortlisted for the 2023 Luebbert Award from APSA for best book in comparative politics. \nAbout the speakers \nAtsuko Ichijo is Associate Professor in Sociology in the Department of Criminology\, Politics and Sociology\, Kingston University\, London. Her research interests are in the field of Nationalism Studies. Her recent publication includes:Nationalism and Subjectivity: East Asian Experiences (2025\, forthcoming\, Oxford University Press); ‘Defending the Scottishness of Scotch Whisky’ (2024)\, in Catherin Ng\, Titilayo Adebola and Abbe Brown (eds) Place-Branding Experiences: Perspectives from Intellectual Property Owners\, Users and Lawyers\, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing\, pp. 57-74; ‘What does it mean to be a Christian nationalist in Meiji Japan?: Religion\, nationalism and the state’\, (2023)\,International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church\, Vol. 23\, No. 4\, pp. 309-327; ‘“Overcoming modernity”\, overcoming what?: “Modernity” in wartime Japan and its implication’\, (2022)\, International Journal of Social Imaginaries\, Vol. 1 No. 1\, pp. 107-128. She is a member of the editorial team of Nations and Nationalism. \nYookyeong Im is an anthropologist specializing in law\, language\, gender and sexuality\, and social movements in the context of contemporary Korea. Her work examines the ways in which the law engages with social discrimination and political aspirations. Her research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council\, the Wenner-Gren Foundation\, and the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies\, among others.  She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her doctoral thesis\, which explores how legal advocacy has emerged as one of the most potent means in South Korean queer activism since the late 2000s. With ethnographic and historical approaches to the increasing judicialization of social movements\, she revisits the question of law’s potential in emancipatory politics and reveals the dilemmatic function of law in shaping queer political imaginations.  Before joining the University of Sheffield\, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Korean studies\, Indiana University Bloomington. \nAram Hur is the Kim Koo Chair in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science at The Fletcher School\, Tufts University.  She is a scholar of nationalism and democracy in East Asia.  Her first book\, Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia\, is winner of the 2023 Robert A. Dahl Award for “scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy” from the American Political Science Association. Her research appears in leading disciplinary journals including the British Journal of Political Science\, Comparative Political Studies\, and Journal of East Asian Studies. I frequently serve as an expert panelist on Korea & democracy issues and contribute evidence-based commentary to current affairs\, including in Foreign Policy and the Washington Post.  She holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University\, M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School\, and B.A. with honors from Stanford University. \nElliott Green is Professor in Development Studies in the Department of International Development at the LSE. Elliott has three main research areas: 1) ethnic politics and national identity in Africa\, 2) patronage\, clientelism and African development\, and 3) the political demography of modern Africa.  He has conducted fieldwork in Uganda\, Tanzania and Botswana\, and is currently working on a book manuscript on ethnic and national identity in modern Africa. His major publications include Industrialization and Assimilation: Explaining Ethnic Change in the Modern World (Cambridge University Press\, 2022) as well as articles in such academic journals as the British Journal of Political Science\, Comparative Political Studies\, Economic Development and Cultural Change\, Ethnic and Racial Studies\, International Studies Quarterly\, the Journal of Modern African Studies\, Studies in Comparative International Development and World Development\, among others.  He currently sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Development Studies\, Nations and Nationalism and Regional and Federal Studies\, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.  Outside academia he has briefed the British High Commissioner to Uganda twice (in 2008 and 2010) and regularly writes blog entries for a variety of websites.  He holds degrees from the LSE (PhD\, MSc) and Princeton University (AB).
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/hur/
LOCATION:Sumeet Valrani Theatre\, London School of Economics\, Centre Building\, Houghton Street\, London\, London\, WC2A 2AE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Straight Nation
DESCRIPTION:The next event in our book presentation series is Pavan Mano’s Straight Nation: Heteronormativity and other exigencies of postcolonial nationalism. Join us in person at King’s College\, London\, or online on Facebook or YouTube. Please note that a free ticket\, available above\, is required for this event. \nAbout the book \nStraight Nation dissects the intricacies of nationalism in postcolonial Singapore and its entanglements with the governance of sexuality. Rejecting the romanticization of the nation as a pure bastion of belonging\, the book theorizes nationalism as a force obsessed with continually generating threats\, and excavates the alliance it has struck up with heteronormativity to produce a series of minoritized figures that contemporary identity claims can neither handle nor dispel. \nThrough an elegant exploration of a vast array of texts and cultural artifacts\, the book argues that the relationship between sexuality and nation is instrumental in producing multiple queered figures who are displaced from the national imaginary. Dwelling on what is often taken as conventional wisdom\, Straight Nation demonstrates how queerness can be xenologized under the sign of the postcolonial nation and turned into a technology of “race”\, gender and class in the right contexts. \nThe book delivers a sharp riposte to narrow identity politics and outlines in detail how the governance of sexual expression functions as a powerful mechanism to shape the lives of many – including\, as unlikely as it may seem\, heterosexual people. In the face of the far-reaching effects of heteronormativity coupled with nationalism\, Straight Nation presents a compelling argument for an expansive\, non-identarian political critique capable of dismantling the deeply entrenched force of heteronormativity in postcolonial Singapore\, and the detritus of nationalism along with it. \nStraight Nation is published by Manchester University Press \nAbout Pavan \nPavan Mano is a Lecturer in Global Cultures in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities at King’s College London.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/mano/
LOCATION:KCL Bush House South East 1.05\, Bush House\, Aldwych\, London
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SUMMARY:Radicalisation and Crisis Management: Shifts of Radical Right Discourse
DESCRIPTION:As part of ASEN’s book discussion series\, we sit down with Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni to discuss their new book\, Radicalisation and Crisis Management: Shifts of Radical Right Discourse on 10th November from 1630UTC (check this time in your city). As ever\, we’ll be live on Facebook and YouTube and members will be invited to join the Zoom call. \nAbout the book\nThis book discusses theories of crisis management and the radical right\, to shed light on how responses to crisis influence radical right parties in their presence\, discourse\, and evolution. The book offers a comparative perspective by examining case studies with various traditions of radical right actors\, presenting data on how crisis exploitation can assist in exploring\, reconsidering\, bargaining\, and learning about the prospects of change of political parties. It focuses on the debate on radicalization and crisis management. Similar to the already existing economic\, political\, post-Brexit\, and migration crises in Europe\, discourses of fear around the latest health crisis are paving the way for further radicalised discourse from the far right. The book looks into how radical right parties in Europe have responded to these crises. It monitors and explores how crisis exploitation impacts political strategies\, opportunity-seeking behaviours\, and the evolution of the discourse of radical right parties in the contemporary political landscape. \nAbout the author\nVasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni is Senior Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute of Political Science. Their main research includes far-right parties\, populism and radicalisation\, political discourse\, narratives in times of crisis\, political marketing and branding and policy making. Their work has been published\, among others\, in the Journal of Common Market Studies\, Party Politics and British Journal of Politics and International Relations and numerous edited books. They hold a PhD from Queen Mary University London (2015)\, a MA from Panteion University of Athens (2008) and a BA from the same institution (2005).
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/tsagkroni/
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SUMMARY:Book launch: Atsuko Ichiko (2025)\, Nationalism and subjectivity: East Asian experiences
DESCRIPTION:This event is free but registration is required. \nThe Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research (ICPR) and the Department of Politics of Birkbeck\, University of London and the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) invite you to an event to introduce Dr Atsuko Ichijo’s latest monograph\, Nationalism and Subjectivity which proposes a reconceptualisation of nationalism based on East Asian experiences. \nRunning order \n\nWelcome by Dr David Cole (ASEN)\nIntroduction by Dr Mai Sato (ICPR)\nOn Nationalism Studies in Birkbeck by Dr Jason Edwards (Politics)\n‘Nationalism and Subjectivity: East Asian Experiences’ by Dr Atsuko Ichijo (ICPR)\nReflection on the book by Dr John Hutchinson (London School of Economics and Political Science)\nQ&A\n\nThe event is chaired by Dr David Cole (ASEN). \nDr John Hutchinson will comment on Dr Atsuko Ichijo’s presentation to initiate a discussion with the audience on the state of theories of nationalism and the field of Nationalism Studies. The in-person session will be followed by a drinks reception. \nDr Atsuko Ichijo is a Honorary Research Fellow at ICPR. Her research interest is in Nationalism Studies and Nationalism and Subjectivity is her sixth monograph on nationalism. She is a member of the editorial team of Nations and Nationalism and serves on the International Advisory Board of the Association of the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/ichijo/
LOCATION:Birkbeck Central\, Malet Street\, London\, WC1E 7HY\, United Kingdom
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