Research Projects
Ongoing and completed investigations that I have been involved with.
Last updated
March 2026
Ongoing Projects
Governance, Vigilance, and Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan
How can effective, solution-oriented, and democratic crisis governance work? Through the lens of vigilance, I analyze how the interaction between governance structures and institutionalized vigilance enabled the activation of democratic resilience in Japan's neighborhoods during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vigilance in Japan’s neighborhoods during the COVID-19 pandemic
In Japan, the containment of the Covid-19 pandemic was based on measures that were not legally binding. Citizens were called upon to apply self-restraint (jishuku) in their daily lives whenever possible. This project analyses the pervasiveness of this type of self-restraint and the establishment of practices of vigilance directed both towards the self, as well as third parties, in the semi-public space of local neighbourhoods, which occurred as a result of interaction between administrative structures and cultural elements. The aim is to develop a corresponding model and to test it empirically.
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Bearing in Remembrance: Wartime Japan and Germany
This project ties together several perspectives from social science and cultural studies that address the study of how wartime Japan and wartime Germany are remembered in our contemporary societies.