This inaugural issue of paideia is structured around questions of experience, memory, and the historian’s burden to evaluate evidence and take social responsibility as elicited by Miki Dezaki’s 2018 documentary film Shusenjo.
episteme issue 5: a new cold war?
The essays collected in this special issue challenge the framework of a “new Cold War” between the US and China in historical and contemporary perspective and evaluate the antagonisms in the context of the current global capitalist economy.
Indrė Balčaitė and Yuzana Khine Zaw, The Parallels of Two Crises: Stifled Revolutions in Myanmar and Belarus
Presenting the crisis in Myanmar (formerly Burma) following the military coup of February 1, 2021, as unique feeds the media’s hunger for sensational stories. Yet focusing on individual cases blinds...
Carlos Sardiña Galache, The all-out war of the Burmese military against its own people
The coup staged by the Burmese military on February 1, 2021 is plunging the country into an all-out war waged by the armed forces against virtually the whole of the...
First Looks: Notes on COVID-19
“First Looks” is a forum that captures the sense of an “unsettled” pandemic interregnum to ask: can the irresolution, the waiting, the vanishing certitudes of the interregnum be productive?
special issue: critical reflections on "comfort women" 75 years on
august 2020
Tani Barlow, Katsuya Hirano, Suzy Kim, Lan Li
Rijuta Vallishayee
Skyler Ewing, Pauline Huff, Ari Forsyth, Allen Sellers, Tessa Schreiber
First Looks: Notes on COVID-19
“First Looks” is a forum that captures the sense of an “unsettled” pandemic interregnum to ask: can the irresolution, the waiting, the vanishing certitudes of the interregnum be productive?
First Look as Future Look: The Documentary and the Predictive in Wuhan Diary
Michael Berry examines Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary, a crucial text that documented the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China via an online...
Frontline Intelligence: Healthcare Workers of COVID-19
Bishnupriya Ghosh examines the “frontline intelligence” of healthcare workers who recorded or reported their qualitative perceptions during the early days...
special issue: critical reflections on "comfort women" 75 years on
fall 2020
Nothing About Us Without Us: Recalling the strong voices of “comfort women” survivors
On May 9, 2020, Japanese Military “Comfort Woman” survivor Lee Yong-soo held a press conference to criticize the Korean Council...
Faces of Korean Women in Two Mass Movements
Two mass movements gained explosive momentum in South Korea during the 2010s. One was the popularization of “comfort women” activism,...
Comfort
From a piercing collection of poems, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon explores gender, race, and...
