Dr. Anna Wiemann

Assistant professor

Japan-Center

Office address:

Oettingenstraße 67

Room 141

80538 Munich

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Office hours:

By appointment

Postal address:

Oettingenstraße 67

D-80538 Munich

Research interests

  • social movements, civil society and political participation
  • social network research, media, collective memory

Curriculum Vitae

Year
Academic appointments and education
since 10/2019
Assistant Professor, Japan Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
10/2018 to 09/2019
Research Associate, Institute for Modern Japanese Studies, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
04/2016 to 03/2018
Teaching assignments at Asia-Africa-Institute, Department for Japanese Language and Culture, Universität Hamburg
10/2011 to 07/2017
Doctoral Studies Program, Universität Hamburg Japanese Studies (politics and society)
10/2014 to 03/2016
Research Student at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies MEXT scholarship
09/2013 to 05/2014
Doctoral Fellow at German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo
10/2008 to 09/2011
M.A. Peace and Conflict Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg
10/2009 to 03/2010
M.A. Peace and Conflict Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg
10/2003 to 03/2008
B.A. Japanese Linguistics and Roman Philology (French) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Research Projects

  • Civil Society and Alternative Politics since 3.11
    • Scholarships: German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) (2013-2014), MEXT (2014-2016)
    • Conference funding: Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung/Universität Zürich (VSJF 2021)
  • Collective Memory and Disaster: 3.11 and its aftermath in Tōhoku and beyond
    • Collaborators: David Slater (Sophia University, Tokyo) and Julia Gerster (International Research Institute for Disaster Science, Tohoku University)
    • Educational research trip funding: Toshiba International Foundation (spring 2024)
    • Research trip funding: LMU Post-Doc Fund (autumn 2023)
    • Conference funding: Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung/Universität Zürich (VSJF 2021)

Publications

(2018)
Networks and Mobilization Processes: The Case of the Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement after Fukushima. München: Iudicium.

Reviews
Aldrich, Daniel P. (2020), in: Journal of Japanese Studies 46/2.
Bochorodycz, Beata (2019), in: Social Science Japan Journal 23/1.
Niggemeier, Jan (2019): "Netzwerkmobilisierung im Verborgenen", in: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 32/1.
Reiher, Cornelia (2018), in: ASIEN Nr. 148.

(2022)
[with Koppenborg, Florentine and Tobias Weiss] Continuity and Change 10 Years after 3.11: Processes and Dynamics in State-Society Relations. Contemporary Japan 34(2), Special Section.

(2022)
Protest ohne Zähne? Entwicklung und Wandel sozialer Bewegungen während der Amtszeit Abes. In: Chiavacci, David und Iris Wieczorek (eds.) Japan 2022. Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Munich: Iudicium, Sondersektion zur Abe-Ära in Japan, 140-146.

(2022)
[with Koppenborg, Florentine and Tobias Weiss] Continuity and Change 10 years after 3.11 : Processes and Dynamics in State-Society Relations. Introduction to the Special Section. In: Contemporary Japan 34(2), 127-135.

(2021)
[with Lisa Onaga et al.] Sources of Disaster: A Roundtable Discussion on New Epistemic Perspectives in Post-3.11 Japan. In: East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 15(4), 482-496.

(2021)
Das Klischee der ruhigen Japaner*innen 10 Jahre nach Fukushima. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 34(4), 740-754.

(2021)
[with Köksal Sahin] Betroffenenbewegungen und das Recht: ‚Heimatverlust‘ als Schaden in der Nariwai-Sammelklage gegen TEPCO und den Staat. In: Chiavacci, David and Iris Wieczorek (eds.) Japan 2021. Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Munich: Iudicium, 97-118.

(2020)
Smartphones versus NHK? Mobilization Strategies of the Japanese Anti-nuclear Movement under Abe’s Restrictive Media Policy. In: Contemporary Japan 32(1), 128-140.

(2019)
Making Memory by Dissociating the Past from the Present: Narratives of Movement Intellectuals of the Post-Fukushima Protest Cycle in Japan. In: International Quarterly for Asian Studies 50, 157-170.

(2017)
Zivilgesellschaft in Japan: Schlaglichter auf ein bewegtes Forschungsfeld. In: ASIEN The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 144 (July 2017), 105-118.

(2016)
From Disaster to Opportunity: The Role of Civic Organizations in Movement Mobilization from the Perspective of Hope Studies. In: Journal for Japanese Studies 6 (March 2016), International Center for Japanese Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 111-123.

(2013)
[with Vogt, Gabriele] Okinawa und die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der Hatoyama-Administration. In: Blechinger-Talcott, Verena; Brumann, Christoph und Chiavacci, David (eds.): Ein neues Japan? Politischer und sozialer Wandel seit den 1990er Jahren. Bern: Peter Lang (Asiatische Studien, LXVII(2), special issue), 711-738.

(2024)
Living with the Nuclear: Life Experiences of Farmers in Fukushima Prefecture. In: Köhn, Stephan; Hülsmann, Katharina (eds.): Articulations of the Nuclear. Postwar Japan under the Spell of the Atomic Age. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 329-350.

(2020)
Qualitative Content Analysis: A Systematic Way of Handling Qualitative Data and its Challenge. In: Kottmann, Nora; Reiher, Cornelia (eds.): Studying Japan. Handbook of Research Design, Fieldwork and Methods. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 363-366.

(2017) VSJF Award 2019
Mit dem Smartphone gegen NHK? – Mobilisierungsstrategien der japanischen Anti-Atomkraftbewegung unter Abes restriktiver Medienpolitik. In: Heinrich, Steffen; Vogt, Gabriele (eds.): Japan in der Ära Abe. Eine politikwissenschaftliche Analyse. Munich: Iudicium, 184-202.

(2024)
André Beckershoff (2024): Social Forces in the Re-Making of Cross-Strait Relations. Hegemony and Social Movements in Taiwan. London: Routledge. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 37(2), 311-314.

(2021)
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa (2020): Japan’s Living Politics. Grassroots Action and the Crisis of Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In: Social Science Japan Journal 24(1), 221-223.

(2020)
Tsutsui, Kiyoteru (2018): Rights Make Might. Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan. New York: Oxford University Press. In: Zeitschrift für Menschrechte 2/2020, 241-244.

(2019)
Ōnishi, Masayuki and Miyagi, Kunimasa (eds.) (2016): “Shīkuwāsā no chie – Oku, yanbaru no ‘kotoba – kurashi – ikimono no kan’” [Shīkuwāsā’s wisdom: The interplay of language, lifestyle, and flora and fauna in Yanbaru’s Oku village]. Kyōtō: Kyōtō Daigaku Gakujutsu Shuppankai. In: Social Science Japan Journal 22(2), 101-103.

(2016)
Naoto Kan: Als Premierminister während der Fukushima-Krise. Aus dem Japanischen von Frank Rövekamp. 2015. München: Iudicium. In: ASIEN The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 140 (July 2016), 143-144.

Further Information

(2021)
European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS) Conference 2021 Ghent. Panel Convenor with Yosuke Buchmeier: “Competing for the Frame: How Mainstream Media, Political Players and Social Movements Contend for Interpretative Hegemony in Post-Fukushima Japan”, August 25.

(2021)
Change and Continuity 10 Years after 3.11
. Virtual Annual Conference of the German Association for Japanese Studies (VSJF) in cooperation with the Japanese-German Center Berlin (JDZB). Conference organization with Florentine Koppenburg (TU München) and Tobias Weiss (Universität Heidelberg), March 19. Funding: Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung, Universität Zürich. For video recording see JDZB Youtube channel.

  • Board member of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF)
  • Institute for Protest and Social Movement Research
  • German Sociological Association, Section: Sociology of Knowledge
  • Memory Studies Association