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CARROLL, Myles

2023年6月27日更新

Research Areas

International Political Economy; Comparative Political Science; Gender Studies; Contemporary Japan Studies

Education and Research Profile

While my own academic background is primarily in political science, my research interests are wide-ranging and span multiple disciplines, including heterodox economics, feminist political economy, critical sociology, and political ecology. In recent years my research program has focused on the political economy Japan since the post-war era, where I have tried to develop an integrated analysis of a range of issues relevant to our understanding of both post-war and contemporary Japanese society, politics, and economic order.

These issues include Japan’s models of social welfare and social reproduction; its electoral/political system, and its economic model, or “variety of capitalism.” In developing an integrated analysis of these three interlocking spheres of Japanese social order, I have attempted to theorize both the conditions that gave rise to and maintained Japan’s post-war stability and prosperity as well as the causes and conditions of its now 30-year period of crisis, characterized by economic stagnation and demographic crisis, among other challenges.

In addition to this concern with Japanese political economy, I also have a strong interest in political ecology and environmental politics. Prior to beginning my research program on Japan, I engaged in a research project that explored the implications of GMO agriculture from a range of critical perspectives. In the wake of the deepening ecological crisis facing humanity, this concern with environmental issues is once again on my mind, and I am now beginning a new research project that explores the political economy of climate change, with a focus on Japan.

While most of the courses that I teach are in the areas of political economy and heterodox economics, I bring the same wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach to my teaching as I bring to my research. Thus, I draw on a range of theoretical approaches and empirical issues, including gender and social reproduction, development, economic history, labor politics, technology, globalization, welfare state theory, environmental problems, and social movements. Most of my courses combine a focus on the historical dynamics that gave rise to the world we now live in with a critical examination of contemporary themes and problems in the global political economy.

CARROLL, Myles

Research Areas

Education and Research Profile

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