Yoko Demelius
PhD, Docent
yoko.demelius@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-2731 |
Areas of expertise
diversity; marginality; minority; gender; civil society; community; conspiracy theories; transgression and intimacy; ethnography
diversity; marginality; minority; gender; civil society; community; conspiracy theories; transgression and intimacy; ethnography
Research community or research topic
Conspiracy Theories, Anti-Science, and Disinformation in East Asia: Perspectives from Japan (CADEA) - KONE Foundation
Conspiracy Theories, Anti-Science, and Disinformation in East Asia: Perspectives from Japan (CADEA) - KONE Foundation
Publications
- Inbōron: Minshushugi o Yurugasu Mekanizumu (Conspiracy Theories: The Mechanism That Shakes Democracy) (2025)
- Social Science Japan Journal
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Technologies of the YouTuber self: digital vigilantism, masculinities and attention economy in neoliberal Japan (2025)
- Global Crime
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Conspiracy theories and the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan : The rise, radicalization, and fall (?) of YamatoQ-kai (2024)
- Social Science Japan Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Making sense of human rights and (migrant) workers in Europe and Japan: from the perspectives of practice, motivations, and implementation (2024) Demelius, Yoko
(Other publication) - Seduction of far-right actions: A pathway to an authentic self? (2024)
- Crime, Media, Culture
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Healing through Shared Tasks: Honoring Elderly Zainichi Korean Women and Crossing Unspoken Boundaries in Japan (2023)
- Studia Orientalia
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Humanitarian Issues of Immigration in Japan: From Historical Background to Current Policies (2023) Yoko Demelius, Sara Park (Helsinki University), (Satoko Naito as a host)
(Other publication) - The Presentation of the Korean Self with Everyday Food: Negotiating “Koreanness” through Kimchi Diplomacy in Contemporary Japan (2023)
- Seoul Journal of Korean Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - COVID-19 and Vaccine Hesitancy in Japan (2022) Szczepanska Kamila, Demelius Yoko
(I1 Audiovisual publication) - Thinking through Community Spirit: Zainichi Koreans in Post-Korean Wave Japanese Communities (2021)
- Japanese Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Impacts of COVID 19 on Japanese Society with Kamila Szczepanska and Yoko Demelius (2020) Szczepanska Kamilia, Keva Silja, Demelius Yoko
(I1 Audiovisual publication) - Japanese Civil Society: Responding to Covid-19 at Home and Abroad (2020) Kamila Szczepanska, Yoko Demelius, Silja Keva
(I1 Audiovisual publication) - Multiculturalism in a “homogeneous” society from the perspectives of an intercultural event in Japan (2020)
- Asian Anthropology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Stories of Kimchi and Zainichi Koreans in Japan (2019)
- Anthropology News
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)