Atsuko Watanabe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3877539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Atsuko Watanabe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Atsuko |
| FAMILY NAME | Watanabe |
| SIGNATURE | WATANABE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kanazawa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9170-4948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Spatial Conversion? The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and Japanese Imperial Geopolitics
In contemporary contexts, geopolitics is generally understood as great-power rivalry. Historically, however, a crucial aspect of geopolitics, understood as a political theory, is its role in disseminating modern European geographical knowledge, which demarcated the entire world into the bounded spaces of territorial states. A particularly intriguing puzzle in this context concerns how a non-Western power imported Western geopolitical ideas for it…
Patterns of meaning-making in online collaborative reflection sessions for teachers
Although theoretical models of reflection (Kolb, 1984; Korthagen, 1985) articulate an advanced stage of awareness, many aspects of the dynamic process of collaborative reflection remain unclear. The current study analyzes online collaborative reflection sessions among a total of five groups of 3–4 teachers over the course of two years. Three key interactional frames are identified: the Consultation Frame, the Discussion Frame, and the Think-Aloud…
Thinking through 1492
This Collective Discussion aims to open up space for an international political sociology of the production of historical knowledge that interrogates the politics around benchmark dates and what becomes knowable and unknowable through them. Specifically, it examines 1492 as a historiographical device through which to unpack how the discipline of IR knows history. 1492 presents a relevant case for this interrogation, for it is central for the hist…
Socio-Spatial Multiplicity in World Politics
Originally a biogeographic term, 'Indo-Pacific' is increasingly replacing 'Asia-Pacific' in political discourse. This is not merely a linguistic matter but also has political implications. However, the meaning of 'Indo-Pacific' remains unclear, and its implications are contested. While it has attracted the attention of a wide spectrum of political pundits, the regional designation 'Indo-Pacific' is used to describe a space of global cooperation a…
A Way to Transcend Boundaries
Having been adapted into a movie by Martin Scorsese in 2016, Silence is Shūsaku Endō’s most famous novel outside of Japan. Initially published in 1966, the novel is about seventeenth-century Jesuit missionaries who secretly make a voyage to Japan in search of their spiritual Father who has reportedly renounced his faith after being tortured by local authorities. In his foreword to Endō’s Silence, Scorsese, a devout Catholic and long-standing admi…
Forum
This forum critically reflects on discrimination faced by early-career women international relations (IR) scholars in the Asia-Pacific region in their workplaces and beyond. By taking a self-ethnographic perspective, six contributors from five countries provide an engaging overview of difficulties they face in their everyday lives. Against the backdrop of this diverse and globalizing region, the contributors are all academic migrants in search of…
Un(Coil)ing the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global effect on higher education. Overnight, entire degree programs had to be moved online. Whereas this meant that teaching and learning in political science and international relations also went into “emergency e-learning” mode, as a recent teacher spotlight in PS: Political Science & Politics termed it, moving online also offered opportunities. One opportunity is collaborative online international learning (COI…
Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination
Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations
In an ever more globalized world, sustainable global development requires effective intercultural co-operations. This dialogue between non-western and western cultures is essential to identifying global solutions for global socio-political challenges. Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations critiques the formation of non-western International Relations by assessing Japanese political concepts to contemporary IR discourses si…
Greater East Asia Geopolitics and its geopolitical imagination of a borderless world
Approaching the unsynthesizable in international politics
This article addresses the question of how spatial difference manifests itself in International Relations discourses in an effort to theorize difference in international politics. In doing so, we focus on the concept of security in particular and demonstrate a paradox in its conceptualization. Despite the aspiration to capture global diversity, contemporary security discourses largely leave out the moment of subjectification in knowledge-construc…
Greater East Asia Geopolitics and its geopolitical imagination of a borderless world
Approaching the unsynthesizable in international politics
This article addresses the question of how spatial difference manifests itself in International Relations discourses in an effort to theorize difference in international politics. In doing so, we focus on the concept of security in particular and demonstrate a paradox in its conceptualization. Despite the aspiration to capture global diversity, contemporary security discourses largely leave out the moment of subjectification in knowledge-construc…
Forum
This forum critically reflects on discrimination faced by early-career women international relations (IR) scholars in the Asia-Pacific region in their workplaces and beyond. By taking a self-ethnographic perspective, six contributors from five countries provide an engaging overview of difficulties they face in their everyday lives. Against the backdrop of this diverse and globalizing region, the contributors are all academic migrants in search of…
Thinking through 1492
This Collective Discussion aims to open up space for an international political sociology of the production of historical knowledge that interrogates the politics around benchmark dates and what becomes knowable and unknowable through them. Specifically, it examines 1492 as a historiographical device through which to unpack how the discipline of IR knows history. 1492 presents a relevant case for this interrogation, for it is central for the hist…
Socio-Spatial Multiplicity in World Politics
Originally a biogeographic term, 'Indo-Pacific' is increasingly replacing 'Asia-Pacific' in political discourse. This is not merely a linguistic matter but also has political implications. However, the meaning of 'Indo-Pacific' remains unclear, and its implications are contested. While it has attracted the attention of a wide spectrum of political pundits, the regional designation 'Indo-Pacific' is used to describe a space of global cooperation a…
Approaching the unsynthesizable in international politics
This article addresses the question of how spatial difference manifests itself in International Relations discourses in an effort to theorize difference in international politics. In doing so, we focus on the concept of security in particular and demonstrate a paradox in its conceptualization. Despite the aspiration to capture global diversity, contemporary security discourses largely leave out the moment of subjectification in knowledge-construc…
Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations
In an ever more globalized world, sustainable global development requires effective intercultural co-operations. This dialogue between non-western and western cultures is essential to identifying global solutions for global socio-political challenges. Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations critiques the formation of non-western International Relations by assessing Japanese political concepts to contemporary IR discourses si…
Greater East Asia Geopolitics and its geopolitical imagination of a borderless world
Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination
Un(Coil)ing the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global effect on higher education. Overnight, entire degree programs had to be moved online. Whereas this meant that teaching and learning in political science and international relations also went into “emergency e-learning” mode, as a recent teacher spotlight in PS: Political Science & Politics termed it, moving online also offered opportunities. One opportunity is collaborative online international learning (COI…
Forum
This forum critically reflects on discrimination faced by early-career women international relations (IR) scholars in the Asia-Pacific region in their workplaces and beyond. By taking a self-ethnographic perspective, six contributors from five countries provide an engaging overview of difficulties they face in their everyday lives. Against the backdrop of this diverse and globalizing region, the contributors are all academic migrants in search of…
A Way to Transcend Boundaries
Having been adapted into a movie by Martin Scorsese in 2016, Silence is Shūsaku Endō’s most famous novel outside of Japan. Initially published in 1966, the novel is about seventeenth-century Jesuit missionaries who secretly make a voyage to Japan in search of their spiritual Father who has reportedly renounced his faith after being tortured by local authorities. In his foreword to Endō’s Silence, Scorsese, a devout Catholic and long-standing admi…
Thinking through 1492
This Collective Discussion aims to open up space for an international political sociology of the production of historical knowledge that interrogates the politics around benchmark dates and what becomes knowable and unknowable through them. Specifically, it examines 1492 as a historiographical device through which to unpack how the discipline of IR knows history. 1492 presents a relevant case for this interrogation, for it is central for the hist…
Socio-Spatial Multiplicity in World Politics
Originally a biogeographic term, 'Indo-Pacific' is increasingly replacing 'Asia-Pacific' in political discourse. This is not merely a linguistic matter but also has political implications. However, the meaning of 'Indo-Pacific' remains unclear, and its implications are contested. While it has attracted the attention of a wide spectrum of political pundits, the regional designation 'Indo-Pacific' is used to describe a space of global cooperation a…
Patterns of meaning-making in online collaborative reflection sessions for teachers
Although theoretical models of reflection (Kolb, 1984; Korthagen, 1985) articulate an advanced stage of awareness, many aspects of the dynamic process of collaborative reflection remain unclear. The current study analyzes online collaborative reflection sessions among a total of five groups of 3–4 teachers over the course of two years. Three key interactional frames are identified: the Consultation Frame, the Discussion Frame, and the Think-Aloud…
A Spatial Conversion? The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and Japanese Imperial Geopolitics
In contemporary contexts, geopolitics is generally understood as great-power rivalry. Historically, however, a crucial aspect of geopolitics, understood as a political theory, is its role in disseminating modern European geographical knowledge, which demarcated the entire world into the bounded spaces of territorial states. A particularly intriguing puzzle in this context concerns how a non-Western power imported Western geopolitical ideas for it…
Political science (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Japanese History and Culture (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Geopolitics (4 works) · International relations (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)