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Gender, Militarization, and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces: A Conversation with Remi Kodamaya

This piece offers an in-depth account of a conversation with Dr. Remi Kodamaya, postdoctoral researcher at Hitotsubashi University and inaugural guest of the Arts Revolt Forum!, co-organized by UC Santa Barbara's Resistance, Autonomy, Liberation (RAL) Research Cluster and East Asia Center. Drawing on Dr. Kodamaya's research on contemporary military masculinities within Japan's Self-Defense Forces (JSDF), the podcast and text examines the institution's ongoing identity crisis as reflected in its public relations and recruitment efforts, persistent social and legal controversies surrounding the JSDF, and its recent shift toward a more combat-oriented posture - situating these themes within broader questions of gender, militarism, and national identity in contemporary Japan. 
 

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MP Materials, which operates this rare-earth open-pit mine in Mountain Pass, California, is one of 10 US companies added to China's export control list [File: Steve Marcus/Reuters]

China – the New Hegemon in Technology and International Trade – not so benign after all.

China dominates the global rare earth elements (REE) supply chain-from reserves and mining to processing and manufacturing-through…
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Coercion Capital: Kyilah Terry’s Research into Belarus’s Migrant Recruitment Policies and Authoritarian Mobility Management (AMM)

This article comes out of a discussion between author Alena Shalaby and University of Pennsylvania Political Science PhD candidate…
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A coalition of farmworkers, advocates, industry growers, nonprofits and California’s ICE raid Rapid Response network spotlight the impacts of escalated workplace raids at a press conference in Santa Maria on Thursday, June 12. (Courtesy: Central Coast Alliance for a United Economy)

The Impact of Intergenerational Organizing Histories: Resisting ICE Raids and Mass Deportations on the Central Coast of California

On July 10, 2025, ICE agents raided cannabis farms in Carpinteria and Camarillo, detaining over 300 farmworkers and killing one man…
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Reappearing in the City: Black Women Confronting Forced Disappearance in Colombia

In Colombia, forced disappearance is a wound that never heals. For Black women, however, that wound does not only mark the body: it…
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