Erik Ropers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3047071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik Ropers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik |
| FAMILY NAME | Ropers |
| SIGNATURE | ROPERS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Towson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3633-952X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Narrating against dominance
Globally, women have often been marginalized in discourses about organized crime and are typically cast as passive agents exploited by men in their daily lives. Rather than accepting this stereotype as given, this article traces various discourses and lived experiences of women involved in Japanese organized crime. In the case of Japan, common understandings of organized crime often refer back to the stereotypical roles filled by men with referen…
Contested spaces of ethnicity
This article examines the emergence of Korean hibakusha testimonies through the development of historical and testimonial works about Korean hibakusha resident in Japan. Their emergence is related to wider historical discussions and analyses by zainichi Koreans in the mid-1960s, which broadly centre on aspects of colonial and wartime history such as forced labour. The article examines how survivors, community organizations, and activists have pos…
Japan's Postwar
Representations of Gendered Violence in Manga
As a key part of contemporary Japanese mass visual culture, manga has increasingly been used to shape popular perceptions of history. In recent years, there has been a great deal of discussion surrounding politically conservative and revisionist manga that distort the military's actions during Japan's wars throughout the 1930s and 1940s. In regard to the issue of enforced military prostitution, victims, activists, and scholars have found the depi…
Testimonies as Evidence in the History of kyōsei renkō
For many years, victims of Japanese wartime enforced labour have published or contributed to collections of memoirs and testimonies. These testimonies and the subsequent historical analyses by researchers since the early 1960s have often been framed against contemporaneous issues. What started out as a way to help stir activism and a historical consciousness among resident Koreans in Japan has morphed into a struggle over textbooks and a fight ag…
Representations of Gendered Violence in Manga
As a key part of contemporary Japanese mass visual culture, manga has increasingly been used to shape popular perceptions of history. In recent years, there has been a great deal of discussion surrounding politically conservative and revisionist manga that distort the military's actions during Japan's wars throughout the 1930s and 1940s. In regard to the issue of enforced military prostitution, victims, activists, and scholars have found the depi…
Contested spaces of ethnicity
This article examines the emergence of Korean hibakusha testimonies through the development of historical and testimonial works about Korean hibakusha resident in Japan. Their emergence is related to wider historical discussions and analyses by zainichi Koreans in the mid-1960s, which broadly centre on aspects of colonial and wartime history such as forced labour. The article examines how survivors, community organizations, and activists have pos…
Testimonies as Evidence in the History of kyōsei renkō
For many years, victims of Japanese wartime enforced labour have published or contributed to collections of memoirs and testimonies. These testimonies and the subsequent historical analyses by researchers since the early 1960s have often been framed against contemporaneous issues. What started out as a way to help stir activism and a historical consciousness among resident Koreans in Japan has morphed into a struggle over textbooks and a fight ag…
Testimonies as Evidence in the History of kyōsei renkō
For many years, victims of Japanese wartime enforced labour have published or contributed to collections of memoirs and testimonies. These testimonies and the subsequent historical analyses by researchers since the early 1960s have often been framed against contemporaneous issues. What started out as a way to help stir activism and a historical consciousness among resident Koreans in Japan has morphed into a struggle over textbooks and a fight ag…
Representations of Gendered Violence in Manga
As a key part of contemporary Japanese mass visual culture, manga has increasingly been used to shape popular perceptions of history. In recent years, there has been a great deal of discussion surrounding politically conservative and revisionist manga that distort the military's actions during Japan's wars throughout the 1930s and 1940s. In regard to the issue of enforced military prostitution, victims, activists, and scholars have found the depi…
Japan's Postwar
Contested spaces of ethnicity
This article examines the emergence of Korean hibakusha testimonies through the development of historical and testimonial works about Korean hibakusha resident in Japan. Their emergence is related to wider historical discussions and analyses by zainichi Koreans in the mid-1960s, which broadly centre on aspects of colonial and wartime history such as forced labour. The article examines how survivors, community organizations, and activists have pos…
Narrating against dominance
Globally, women have often been marginalized in discourses about organized crime and are typically cast as passive agents exploited by men in their daily lives. Rather than accepting this stereotype as given, this article traces various discourses and lived experiences of women involved in Japanese organized crime. In the case of Japan, common understandings of organized crime often refer back to the stereotypical roles filled by men with referen…
Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works)