Department of Liberal Arts

Slater David

  (SLATER DAVID)

Profile Information

Affiliation
Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
Degree
B.A.(Vassar College)
M.A.(University of Chicago)
PH.D.(University of Chicago)

Contact information
d-slatersophia.ac.jp
Researcher number
70296888
J-GLOBAL ID
200901010352982907
researchmap Member ID
5000064288

My research focuses on the following topics: social class and capitalism; youth culture; employment and labor; education; urban form and society; semiotics. Japan.

Youth Culture; Education; Social Class; Digitality and New Technology; Urban Form and Society; Semiotics. Japan

(Subject of research)
New forms of digital technology used by youth
Freeter Culture


Papers

 35
  • David H. Slater, Patricia G. Steinhoff
    SocietàMutamentoPolitica, 15(29) 49-61, 2024  Peer-reviewed
    After a disastrous period of New Left political violence in the late 1960s and early 1970s, followed by two decades of abeyance, Japan has experienced a renewed era of social movement activity since the 1990s. These new movements explicitly seek to avoid contamination by the earlier period, even when their participants know little about it except for fear perpetuated by media portrayals of senseless violence. We analyze ethnographic accounts of contemporary groups engaged in collective action, ranging from small informal groups in Japan’s invisible civil society; groups trying to mobilize laborers who fall outside Japan’s traditional enterprise unions; and groups reviving and revitalizing older movement networks to deal with new threats; to new right-wing challengers and their counter-movements; and those making innovative use of cultural resources. They all seek alternatives to earlier social movements that engaged in political violence, by creating very different organizational structures and relations to ideology, relying on social media for communication, and developing new forms of collective action. They foreground cultural and expressive repertoires, and seek to establish the movement as a place of personal and social belonging. As was true of the New Left social movements in the mid-20th century, these new groups are closely attuned to movement developments around the world, even as they craft their responses to specific historical conditions in Japan.
  • Christina Fukuoka, David H. Slater
    Melbourne Asia Review, Oct 23, 2023  Peer-reviewed
  • Lisa Onaga, Chelsea Szendi Schieder, Kristina Buhrman, Julia Mariko Jacoby, Kohta Juraku, David H. Slater, Anna Wiemann, Alexander Dekant, Stella Winter, Jacob Herzum, Levi McLaughlin, Angela Marie Ortiz
    East Asian Science, Technology and Society, 15(4) 482-496, Oct 2, 2021  Peer-reviewed
  • David H. Slater
    Cultural Anthropology, May 25, 2021  Peer-reviewed
  • David H. Slater
    Cultural Anthropology, May 25, 2021  Peer-reviewed

Misc.

 1

Presentations

 58

Works

 2

Research Projects

 8

Academic Activities

 28

Social Activities

 2