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Junki Nakahara @j-nakahara.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🚨#CallForPapers 2 weeks left to submit your 500-word abstract for our @ecpr.bsky.social workshop on #digital #authoritarianism in the Global South & East (7-10 April 2026 at Uni. of Innsbruck, Austria). #ecprjs26 Details ecpr.eu/JointSessions Feel free to DM/email for any questions.

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

⚙️ #ecprjs26 Workshop directors 🎬 @saifshahin.bsky.social & @j-nakahara.bsky.social 💡 Seeks Papers examining how 🌐 digital platforms, practices & policies reinforce authoritarianism and democratic backsliding globally ⌛ Submit by 3 Dec #Polisky #CallforPapers #Asia #Africa #LatinAmerica

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Digital Authoritarianism in the Global South and East

Joint Sessions of Workshops, 7 – 10 April 2026, University of Innsbruck

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Stanford APARC @aparc.stanford.edu · 09/07/2025

A new study by APARC's @j-nakahara.bsky.social & Gi-Wook Shin unveils patterns of #racism denial in #Asia. Analyzing UN reports submitted by 16 Asian countries over 45 yrs, they present a novel framework for understanding racism and racial discourse in non-Western contexts. Read on: buff.ly/nXawgx5

Cover for a summary of a study on racism "denial" in Asia. Photo: anti-racism demonstration in South Korea.

The research question: How do Asian states understand and talk about race and racial discrimination? Illustration: silhouette heads in different colors.

A slide with a quote from the study about the findings.

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Junki Nakahara @j-nakahara.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Our article on #racism #denial in #Asia is now available online. We develop a typology to examine Global South discourses of racism in the #UnitedNations #CERD context. Happy to discuss (+ feel free to DM/email me for a PDF)! doi.org/10.1177/0896... #AcademicTwitter #newPub

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Stanford APARC @aparc.stanford.edu · 30/06/2025

A new study from the Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab at APARC analyzes 45 years of UN reports from 16 Asian countries, revealing patterns of racism denial and presenting a conceptual framework for examining the diverse manifestations of race and racism in non-Western contexts. Read > buff.ly/ftA3lDG

Screenshot of an article in the journal Critical Sociology

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Delighted and proud to see @j-nakahara.bsky.social and Jing Cai come out with this interesting and timely study in New Media & Society on the intersection of Chinese nationalism and feminism online. Way to go!

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