Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews with young adults in Seoul and Tokyo, this research seeks to understand why we experience inequality and insecurity in the ways we do at different times and places.
Published research
2022. “Contradiction as Injustice: How Senses of Inequality Differ Across National Contexts.” Sociology 56(4): 710–729. — Link to the paper — Pdf
In progress
Grammars of Injustice: Divergent Responses to Inequality and Insecurity among Millennials in Tokyo and Seoul — book manuscript in preparation
(With Dr. Myungji Yang) “Pace of Institutional Changes and the Sense of Injustice among Millennials in South Korea and Japan.”— draft available upon request