Stefanie Schwarte, M.A.
Research Associate at DFG-Project "Demography and Democracy: How Population Aging Alters Democracy – The Case of Japan"
Research interests
- Women and Politics in Japan
- Japanese Labor Market
- Multi-level Governance
Curriculum Vitae
- Year
- Academic appointments and education
- since 2024
- Research Associate at DFG-Project ‘Demography and Democracy: How Population Aging Alters Democracy – The Case of Japan’
- 2023 - 2024
- Visiting Researcher at Nagoya University as a JSPS stipend holder
- 2019 - 2023
- Research Associate at LMU Munich, Japan-Center
- since 2019
- Doctoral candidate at LMU Munich, Japan-Center under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gabriele Vogt
- 2019
- Internship at a Japanese company, Tokyo
- 2019
- Master auf Arts, University of Hamburg
- 2017
- Exchange semester Sophia University, Tokyo
- 2016
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Hamburg
- 2014
- Exchange semester Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo
Participation in Research Projects
- Demography and Democracy: How Population Aging Alters Democracy – The Case of Japan
- Research grant by DFG (2023-2026)
- Diversification of Japan’s Labor Market: Risks and Opportunities in a Multidisciplinary and Comparative Perspective
- in cooperation with Waseda University
- Research grant by German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD (2016-2019)
- Conversion of military land to civilian use in Germany and Okinawa/Japan: Challenges and opportunities for politics, society, and economy
- In cooperation with the University of the Ryūkyūs
- Research grant by German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD (2019)
Publications
(2020)
Japans Mindestlohnbewegung: Social Movement Unionism am Beispiel von Aequitas [The Minimum Wage Movement in Japan: Social Movement Unionism Using the Example of Aequitas]. In: Chiavacci, David and Iris Wieczorek (eds.): Japan 2020: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, pp. 101-129.
(2022)
[mit König, Anne-Sophie L.]: There's no Way in!? How We Study Japanese Democracy from our German University. In: Heyne, Lea und Christian Ewert (Hgs.): PhD Confessions: From Democracy Scholars, Students, and Supporters. Nordersted: BoD – Books on Demand, 73-77. URL: https://democracynet.eu/wp-content/uploads/HeyneEwert-2022-PhD-Confessions.pdf.
Further Information
(2024)
'Navigating Leadership: The Self-Perception and Role of Female Mayors in Japan's Local Politics', QuaMaFA and Free University of Berlin Workshop, Free University of Berlin
‘Gender equality implementation at the local level. Changing Japan from the bottom up?”, Young Scholar Research Meeting, Ritsumeikan University
(2023)
‘Agency of female mayors in Japan: Promoting gender equality at the local level”, Joint FU-LMU Doctoral Workshop on Japanese Politics, LMU Munich
‘Reproducing or contesting gender roles in local politics: The agency of female politicians in (rural) Japan”, EAJS 2023 (Urban, Regional, and Environmental Studies Panel 2), online presentation
‘Gender in Japanese mayoral elections – qualitative content analysis of campaign posters”, Forschungskolloquium Japan Center, LMU München
(2022)
‘Female political representation in Japan: Politicians as agents of gender equality at the local level”, 18th EAJS Workshop for Doctoral Students, Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc
(2021)
‘Researching Women in Politics in Japan”, Graduate Student Workshop ‘Practical Issues of Fieldwork in Japan”, Universität Zürich
‘Female political representation in Japan: defying the odds at the local level”, IAPSS Virtual World Congress 2021: Democracy, Identity and Power, International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS)
(2019)
‘Prospects for Union Revitalization through Social Movement Unionism: The Case of the Minimum Wage Movement in Japan”, International Workshop: Diversification of Japan's Labor Market: Risks and Opportunities in a Multidisciplinary and Comparative Perspective, LMU München
'Conversion of U.S. military bases in Okinawa: The case of Shintoshin, Naha', Fachgruppe Politik, Jahrestagung Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung (VSJF) 2019 mit Anne-Sophie König, M.A.
(2018)
'Unions' Involvement in the Minimum Wage Movement: Can Social Movement Unionism Revitalize the Labor Movement in Japan?', Fachgruppe Soziologie, Jahrestagung Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung (VSJF) 2018
- European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
- International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS)
- VSJF – German Association for Social Science Research on Japan