David Chiavacci, Prof. Dr.
- Professor in Social Science of Japan
- Director of Studies Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies
- Phone
- +41 44 634 40 84
- Room number
- ZUB 4-417
Office hours wednesday 16-18h, please contact the secretary
Current Lectures at the University of Zurich
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Functions
- Professor in Social Science of Japan
- Director of Studies, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies
- Board, European Association of Japanese Studies and Swiss Asia Society
- Academic advisory board, German Institute for Japanese Studies
- Co-editor, Japan yearbook of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF, Iudicium)
- Editorial board, Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques (Swiss Asia Society, de Gruyter), Contemporary Japan (German Institute for Japanese Studies, Taylor and Francis), Pacific Affairs (University of British Columbia), Social Science Journal Japan (University of Tokyo, Oxford University Press) and book series Worlds of East Asia (Swiss Asia Society, de Gruyter)
Research interests
- Immigration and immigration policy in Japan
- Frames and narratives of social inequality in Japan
- Social change and social movements in Japan
- Comparative sociology with focus on Japan
Academic career
- Since 2017 Full Professor in Social Science of Japan, University of Zurich
- 2010 – 2017 Associate Professor in Social Science of Japan, University of Zurich
- 2009 Professor for Modern Japanese Studies (substitution), University Duisburg-Essen
- 2005 – 2010 Reader and research fellow, Free University Berlin
- 2003 – 2005 Reader and research fellow, University of Zurich
- 2001 – 2003 Visiting research fellow, University of Tokyo
- 1998 – 2001 Lecturer and research fellow, University of Zurich
Publications
Academic Publications (April 2023) (PDF, 214 KB)
Newer publications
ZORA Publication List
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Publications
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China’s and Japan’s winding path to the refugee convention: state identity transformations and the evolving international refugee regime. Modern Asian Studies, 57(4):1415-1447.
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Tokyo Olympics 2020: between dream and contention. Contemporary Japan, 35(1):3-15.
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Navigating and riding the double bind of economic and political hedging: Japan and the US-China strategic competition. In: Grano, Simona; Huang, David Wei-Feng. China-US competition: impact on small and middle powers' strategic choices. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 221-246.
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Ostasien. In: Berlinghoff, Marcel; Glorius, Birgit; Kleist, J Olaf; Scharrer, Tabea. Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung : Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 749-754.
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Zwischen Verehrung und Geringschätzung: Einführung in die Sondersektion zu Abes Wirken und Vermächtnis. In: Chiavacci, David; Wieczorek, Iris. Japan 2022. München: VSJF - Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung, 27-34.
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Book Review of Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Japan’s Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Journal of Japanese Studies, 48(1):218-223.
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Gap society as a new narrative of social division in Japan. In: Mabon, Simon. Dividing lines : reimagining social division in ‘divided societies’. London: SEPAD, 55-59.
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Japan : ein Land im Wandel. In: Blechinger-Talcott, Verena; Chiavacci, David; Schwentker, Wolfgang. Japan : ein Land im Umbruch. Berlin: BeBra Verlag, 9-21.
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Japan als Gesellschaft der Kluft : soziale Teilhabe ohne Wachstum. In: Blechinger-Talcott, Verena; Chiavacci, David; Schwentker, Wolfgang. Japan : ein Land im Umbruch. Berlin: BeBra Verlag, 149-166.
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Social inequality in Japan. In: Pekkanen, Robert J; Pekkanen, Saadia M. Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, n/a.
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Book Review of Jinkō Mondai to Imin: Nihon no Jinkō - Kaisō Kōzoku wa Dō Kawaru ka (Population Problems and Immigration: How Is Japan’s Population and Social Structure Changing?). Social Science Japan Journal, 24(1):245-248.
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Membership in scientific associations
- German Association for Asian Studies (DGA)
- European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS)
- German-Japanese Society of Social Sciences (GJSSS)
- Swiss Society of Asian Studies (SAG)
- Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
- German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF)