Co-organizer

David Chiavacci (Zurich University)

Internationaler Workshop

Social Inequality in Japan: A Reassessment

18. März - 19. März 2013

Dieser nicht-öffentlicher Workshop wurde vom DIJ in Kooperation mit David Chiavacci vom Asien-Orient-Institut der Universität Zürich organisiert. In Vorbereitung auf die Jahrestagung der Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung (VSJF), die vom 22. bis 24. November 2013 am Japanisch-Deutschen Zentrum Berlin (JDZB) stattfinden wird, trafen sich die eingeladenen Sprecher am DIJ. Es wurden insbesondere fünf Dimensionen sozialer Ungleichheit in Japan genauer betrachtet: Bildung, Arbeitsmarkt, Wohlfahrtsstaat, Unterschiede zwischen Stadt und Land sowie soziale Minderheiten.

Wir danken der Mercator Stiftung Schweiz für die finanzielle Unterstützung.

Vorträge

Tag 1 18. März (Montag)

9:00-09:05
Opening remarks

Florian Coulmas

Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien

9:05-09:30
Introduction to the workshop

Carola Hommerich

Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien

David Chiavacci (Zurich University)

9:30-10:00
Keynote speech: Institutions and Agency in the Creation of Social Inequality

Yoshimichi Sato (Tohoku University, Sendai)

10:00-10:15
Coffee break

10:15-12:15
Panel 1 – Labor Market

Chair

David Chiavacci (Zurich University)

The "Re-segmentation" of the Japanese Labour Market: A Structural Effect of the Increasing Heterogeneity of Firms?

Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS, Paris)

Discourses about Labour Market Inequalities

Karen Shire (University Duisburg-Essen)

Agency in Labor Markets

Jun Imai (Hokkaido University, Sapporo)

12:15-13:30
Lunch

13:30-15:30
Panel 2 – Welfare State

Chair

Carola Hommerich

Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien

Generating Social Inequality from the Perspective of Welfare Provision in Japan

Sawako Shirahase (University of Tokyo)

"Inequality" in Social Policy Debates in Japan since the early 2000s – A Discourse Analytical Approach

Harald Conrad (University of Sheffield)

Structure and Agency in the Japanese Welfare State: Obstacles for Reform

Margarita Estévez-Abe (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino)

15:30-16:00
Coffee break

16:00-18:00
Panel 3 – Urban vs. Rural

Chair

David Chiavacci (Zurich University)

The Urban-Rural Divide in Japan: A Matter of Social Inequality?

Ralph Lützeler (University of Bonn)

Discourses on Spatial Inequality and Regional Policy in Japan

Volker Elis (University of Tübingen)

Understanding the Dynamics of Regional Growth and Shrinkage in 21st Century Japan

Peter Matanle (University of Sheffield)

19:00-21:00
Dinner at Hotel New Otani

Tag 2 19. März (Dienstag)

9:00-11:00
Panel 4 – Minorities

Chair

Carola Hommerich

Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien

Does Increasing Ethnic Diversity Equal Increasing Inequality? New and Old Ethnic Minorities and Social Structures in Contemporary Japan

David Chiavacci (Zurich University)

The Tabunkakyosei Model in Crisis? Public Discourse on Immigrant Integration in a Gap Society

Takashi Kibe (International Christian University, Tokyo)

Searching for Power on the Margins: Cultural Capital, Social Capital and Economic Strategies among New Comer Immigrants in Japan

Gracia Liu-Farrer (Waseda University, Tokyo)

11:00-11:15
Coffee break

11:15-13:15
Panel 5 – Education

Chair

Carola Hommerich

Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien

Understanding Structural Changes in Inequality in Education

Takehiko Kariya (Oxford University)

Assessing, Explaining, and Trying to Reduce Inequalities – Discourses of Social Inequality in Education

Julia Canstein (University of Halle-Wittenberg)

Recent Trends in Japan’s Educational Policy

Akito Okada (Tokyo University for Foreign Studies)

13:15-14:30
Lunch

14:30-16:00
General discussion: Interrelations, Analogies and Contradictions

Chair

David Chiavacci (Zurich University)

16:00-16:30
Coffee break

16:30-18:00
Discussion towards the refinement of papers + publication procedure

Chair

Carola Hommerich

Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien

End of the workshop

Co-organizer

Internationaler Workshop

Social Inequality in Japan: A Reassessment

18. März - 19. März 2013

Vorträge

Tag 1 18. März (Montag)

9:00-09:05 Opening remarks

9:05-09:30 Introduction to the workshop

9:30-10:00 Keynote speech: Institutions and Agency in the Creation of Social Inequality

10:00-10:15 Coffee break

10:15-12:15 Panel 1 – Labor Market

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:30 Panel 2 – Welfare State

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-18:00 Panel 3 – Urban vs. Rural

19:00-21:00 Dinner at Hotel New Otani

Tag 2 19. März (Dienstag)

9:00-11:00 Panel 4 – Minorities

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-13:15 Panel 5 – Education

13:15-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 General discussion: Interrelations, Analogies and Contradictions

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Discussion towards the refinement of papers + publication procedure

Verwandte Forschungsprojekte

9:00-09:05
Opening remarks

9:05-09:30
Introduction to the workshop

9:30-10:00
Keynote speech: Institutions and Agency in the Creation of Social Inequality

10:00-10:15
Coffee break

10:15-12:15
Panel 1 – Labor Market

12:15-13:30
Lunch

13:30-15:30
Panel 2 – Welfare State

15:30-16:00
Coffee break

16:00-18:00
Panel 3 – Urban vs. Rural

19:00-21:00
Dinner at Hotel New Otani

9:00-11:00
Panel 4 – Minorities

11:00-11:15
Coffee break

11:15-13:15
Panel 5 – Education

13:15-14:30
Lunch

14:30-16:00
General discussion: Interrelations, Analogies and Contradictions

16:00-16:30
Coffee break

16:30-18:00
Discussion towards the refinement of papers + publication procedure