Anna-Karin Eriksson
About Anna-Karin Eriksson
Research areas
My research is situated at the intersection of gender and Japanese studies with a particular focus on historiography. In my PhD, I examined the politics surrounding the so-called “comfort women” system under the Empire of Japan (1932-45).
I am interested in the conditions of possibility of historiography in terms of the limit conditions that make it possible to talk about history and knowledge in the first place.
Ongoing research
I currently research the temporal underpinnings of the rationales invoked to justify militarisms and militarisations, the dynamics of feminist backlash and the intersections of antisemitism and islamophobia in Swedish school settings.
Teaching
Having taught 7,000 hours at six different universities in Sweden (previously at Linnaeus, Stockholm, Umeå, West and Dalarna), mostly in politics and interdisciplinary departments, I currently teach undergraduate level courses in Global Studies and International Relations and supervise student theses in these areas.
Links
Japans tröstekvinnor (popular summary of my doctoral dissertation in ”Historiskan” – Sweden’s first women’s history journal, 1/2023) [in Swedish]
https://historiskan.se/webshop/historiskan-1-2023/
Antifeministiska bakslag i tröstekvinne-kontroversen (20-minute lecture that was broadcast on Swedish national television and now is available online) [in Swedish]
Exploiting humiliation: politics as history in the ‘comfort women’ issue (Article published in Feminist Theory)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14647001251341829
Absent the Silently Invisible: Rethinking Model Victimhood under the “Comfort Women” System (Article published i Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy)
Silencing speech and spoken silence in war memorialization in Japan (Book chapter published by Routledge 2023 in Google Books)
Representing the ’Comfort Women’: Omissions and Denials in Wartime Historiographies in Japan (Book chapter published by Palgrave Macmillan 2023 in Google Books)
Challenging ’Comfort Women’ Discourse: Rethinking Intersections of Historical Justice and History Education (Book chapter published by Palgrave Macmillan 2021 in Google Books)
Global history or inter | nationalist discourse!? Unsettling the ’comfort women’ issue (Doktorsavhandling från 2022 om politiken som omgärdar ”tröstekvinnesystemet” under Japanska imperiet 1932-45)