Andreas Eder-Ramsauer @andreasedram.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Happy to share a short piece I wrote on Takaichi Sanae for a Special Issue of Critical Asia Archives (edited by Kawamura Satofumi) "Retrotopian Affect and the Takaichi Phenomenon: Prefigurative Nostalgia under “General Conservatism”" caarchives.org/retrotopian-... 020
Andreas Eder-Ramsauer @andreasedram.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Democratic futures now! | 今こそ民主的な未来 🙌Publication alert: Special Issue I co-edited with Anna Linder. Translations from Japanese into English and German into Japanese by excellent scholars concerned with democratic futures. See: journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/aaj 000
Andreas Eder-Ramsauer @andreasedram.bsky.social · 10/09/2025🚨 Registration still open! Come to Vienna and discuss (un)democratic futures with/through the Japanese experience. All details here: vsjf2025.univie.ac.at 052
Andreas Eder-Ramsauer @andreasedram.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Given yesterday's election result in Japan, please consider joining this conference (📅November 7-9). It offers many perspectives on why parties like Sanseitô are successful, and how democratic livable futures might be attainable. 👉See the full program here: vsjf2025.univie.ac.at/program/ 040
Andreas Eder-Ramsauer @andreasedram.bsky.social · 29/04/2024New book chapter with my colleague Matsutani Mitsuru on "Varieties of Populism in Japan" for this great bookMuch needed insight into an understudied region in populism research. Amazing effort by Shiru Wang routledge.com/Three-Faces-... #日本維新の会 #おおさか維新の会 #れいわ新選組 130