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The digital misogyny pipeline: deepfake-based sexual violence in South Korean schools and universities
No full textWhile digital sex crimes are not unique to South Korea, their prevalence and severity have drawn significant domestic and international attention. The 2024 ‘deepfake porn’ scandal revealed that male students at hundreds of schools and universities created Telegram channels to produce and share synthetic explicit videos of female teachers, classmates, and family members. Many victims and perpetrators were minors.Through an analysis of mass and social media discourses surrounding the scandal, this paper finds that digital misogyny lies at the centre of this dystopian development. It operates as a multidirectional ecosystem rather than the work of isolated ‘manfluencers’. This ecosystem encompasses male-dominated online communities that generate and monetize narratives of male grievance, politicians who amplify these narratives and fuel their offline spillover, and authorities who deflect responsibility by placing the burden of intervention on female students and teachers
Review of 'Unboxing Japanese Videogames: A Metadata-Based Approach to the Production and Distribution of Spatial Instability' By Martin Roth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2025
No full textReview of Annika A. Culver (2024) Democratizing Luxury: Name Brands, Advertising, and Consumption in Modern Japan
No full textLearning to Industrialize: Ideas, Institutions and Power in the Development of Industrial Parks in Ethiopia
Full text linkOver the past decade, industrial policy has had a resurgence across Africa as countries pursue catch‐up development, partly inspired by East Asia's state‐led transformation. With increased attention in the discussion given to learning by doing and learning by emulation at the government level, policy learning has invariably been advocated with strong — if often implicit — normative claims. That is, learning is equated with a policy good that supports institutional building, despite scepticism about the extent to which policy learning occurs in practice and how politics shapes it. By tracing the development of Ethiopia's industrial park programme, this article seeks to move beyond a normative framing and instead explore the role of underlying ideas, institutional structure and power dynamics in affecting the trajectory of policy learning and its development outcomes. The findings underscore the critical importance of effective discursive and distribution mechanisms for aligning ideas and interests among powerful groups, shedding light on both the opportunities and risks of policy learning in driving more transformative changes in the case study. Theoretically, the article highlights the ideational dimensions of power relations in shaping policy choices and institutional outcomes, contributing to the discussion of a relational and material‐based approach to better understanding the role of African states in pursuing late industrialization
Demand regimes, innovation dynamics, and industrial leadership: a comparative analysis of wind turbine manufacturers in Europe
Full text linkThe paper advances a new framework to analyze how policy-driven changes in demand regimes trigger firm-level structural cycles of technological change and organizational reconfiguration, ultimately affecting industrial leadership. With a focus on renewable energy technologies, and Germany as a critical case, we study how the shift from feed-in tariffs to auctions triggered different industrial dynamics and strategic responses among key incumbents—Nordex, Enercon and Siemens-Gamesa. Demand-side industrial policy can have unintended effects, and the degree to which firms’ responses are aligned with changes in demand regimes has implications for their industrial leadership
National identity and the ownership of English in Nigeria
Full text linkIt has been argued that, especially in non‐Inner Circles of English, whether or not speakers consider language to be a harbinger of national identity affects their positioning as owners of that language. A plethora of prior studies have also demonstrated that language is of central importance regarding the ways in which people enact their national identities. In the case of Nigeria, national language(s) rhetoric has been particularly contentious. This study presents findings from a larger study employing a mixed‐methods approach to examine Nigerian university students’ perceptions (N = 387) of English language ownership. Analysis revealed that respondents’ sense of national identity was a major factor in enacting (English) language ownership. The findings from the study also indicated that the extent to which speakers outwith Inner Circle contexts exercise linguistic ownership over English can depend upon both the specific sociolinguistic milieu and the degree to which English expresses national identity
Geographies of race in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe
Full text linkThis article is a discipline-defining agenda. It addresses the oversight of Geographies of race in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and explores geography’s potential contributions to the unfolding debates around race, decolonisation, and whiteness. Geographies of race remain unmarked and therefore unchallenged within the field of geography in CEE. Consequently, geographers typically consider CEE as peripheral to the global racial discourses and possibly post-racial. By drawing on sociological, migration, historical, and anthropological approaches, particularly in Poland, the article emphasises the importance of geography in discussions around race, decolonisation, and whiteness. It considers the appeal of geographies of race to this “peripheral location” to demonstrate a shift in racial and colonial discourses. By bridging interdisciplinary approaches and challenging prevailing discourses, the article aims to broaden the scope of the geographies of race and foster a more inclusive and global understanding of race and colonisation
Partition violence, Mountbatten and the Sikhs: A reassessment
Full text linkDespite major advances in the historiography of the partition, the causes of violence remain poorly understood. Drawing on new archival material, this article argues that violence in the Punjab resulted from the failure of the British Sikh policy from 1939. Mountbatten's complicity in the massacres, and his defence against the allegations, point to a wider policy failure. Systematic blame displacement for the violence onto the Sikhs by the Government of Pakistan, India, Britain, enabled the latter and Mountbatten to avoid responsibility for the consequences of the transfer of power to two highly centralised dominions for religious minorities
Imperialism, Colonialism and Economic Growth in the Japanese Empire, 1911-1938
No full textIn this thesis, I examine the macroeconomic impact of Japanese imperialism and colonialism on Japan proper and its former colonies, notably Taiwan and Korea, between 1911 and 1938. This thesis fills a gap in the existing scholarship by providing the first comprehensive macroeconomic assessment of how imperial structures shaped growth across the Japanese Empire, using newly reconstructed national accounts data. In doing so, it addresses a longstanding shortfall in the literature, which has frequently focused on either identifying the main economic drivers behind the rise of imperialism, such as the search for new markets or the drive for capital exports, or the debate on the costs and benefits of imperialism by examining whether colonial revenues, expenditures, and investments benefited the home country. Although these studies have occasionally employed quantitative methods, there has not been comprehensive academic research to examine the overall macroeconomic repercussions of the Japanese imperial rule on its constituent territories. By integrating and analysing historical national accounts data drawn from newly updated and most reliable long-term economic statistics currently available, I evaluate the extent to which the Japanese Empire functioned as a coherent economic system and how imperial policies shaped growth trajectories of its constituent parts. The first objective is to assess macroeconomic interconnectedness: were Japan proper, Taiwan, and Korea integrated into a unified imperial economy such that they shared similar timeseries trends and patterns of economic development? The second objective is to identify the primary demand-side drivers of economic growth, such as private consumption, government spending, capital formation, and exports, while also considering how participation in wars under its specific conditions may have influenced economic performance and growth. Employing a positivist, inductive, and quantitative methodology, the study uses statistical techniques such as analysis of variance (ANOVA), correlation analysis, multiple regression, and structural equation modelling (SEM) to elucidate the relationships between economic variables. Ethical considerations are carefully addressed: without endorsing Japan’s imperial policies, I have objectively researched the historical macroeconomic processes at work. By connecting long-standing debates in development economics, Japanese economic history, and methods of quantitative economic history, this thesis contributes to a deeper understanding of how imperial structures influenced growth patterns. Its findings offer new insights into the macroeconomic foundations of modern East Asian development and challenge prevailing narratives that overlook the role of imperial integration in shaping long-term economic growth trajectories. Ultimately, by refining our comprehension of these historical legacies, my research demonstrates that the Japanese imperial administration exerted significant influence on the post-war economic development of East Asia, thereby exposing specific inconsistencies with some of the existing scholarship and substantially supporting others through quantitative economic analysis. This evidence underscores the need for a thorough re-examination of how imperial powers shaped the region’s modern economic prosperity
'Why “Black Mass” Is Critical'
Full text linkGermany cannot switch to electric vehicles, vital for the green transition, without a reliable supply of lithium and other critical raw materials. Recycling and reusing the materials contained in batteries that are already in Europe can reduce dependence on foreign suppliers. However, Germany and Europe cannot rely on joint ventures with China but instead need to invest heavily into developing and building up capacities of their own. Otherwise, they will be trading one dependency on China for another
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