Asian Institute

Kawashima, Ken

Assistant Professor
Munk Centre for International Studies

My principal interests are critiques of political economy, poststructuralism, theories of difference and subjectivity, and philosophies of history. My forthcoming book, about the limits to the commodification of Korean labor power in interwar Japan, is titled, Contingent Commodifications: Korean Labor Power, Racism and Capitalism in Japan, 1917-1937.

"My forthcoming book is titled, Contingent Commodifications: Korean Labor Power, Racism, and Capitalism in Japan, 1917-1937."

 

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Ken Kawashima’s principal interests are critiques of political economy, poststructuralism, theories of difference and subjectivity, and philosophies of history. His forthcoming book is about the limits to the commodification of the Korean labor power in interwar Japan, it is entitled, Contingent Commodifications: Korean Labor Power, Racism, and Capitalism in Japan, 1917-1937.

 

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