YUKI ASAHINA

I am a lecturer (assistant professor) of Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester. 

My broad research interests include social inequality and political sociology, with a particular focus on Japan and South Korea. I use a variety of qualitative methods and a lens of comparison to explore the ways people experience and respond to economic inequality and insecurity. I am also interested in the rise of right-wing movements and ideas. 

My research has appeared in general sociology journals (Sociology and International Sociology), specialized social science journals (Politics&Society and Nations and Nationalism), and Asian studies journals (Journal of Contemporary Asia, Japan Forum and European Journal of Korean Studies).

I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in 2019. I spent a year at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow and four years at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea, as an assistant to associate professor before joining the UofM. 

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​You can reach me at yuki.asahina[at]manchester.ac.uk