"Trauma Time and Memory in Understanding Gender-Based Violence" in Special Issue on "Traversing Memories in Global Politics" in Millennium (Forthcoming)
This article draws upon Jenny Edkins' notion of 'trauma time' and asks how it helps us to better understand entanglement with past trauma in the context of Gender-Based Violence (GBV). Edkins argues that enacting trauma time allows for multiple narratives and resistance, challenging the normalisation of traumas by sovereign power within linear time. I propose that trauma time offers valuable insights into better understanding GBV by highlighting the socio-political nature of trauma and critiquing the linear narrative of healing and restoring social order. Through an analysis of debates over the Gender Recognition Reform Bill (GRR) in the United Kingdom, this article unpacks how social actors enact trauma time surrounding various forms of GBV, especially gendered violence against trans people. I argue that while sharing some similarities with gender critical feminists' invocation of trauma time, the enactment of trauma time by trans rights activists troubles and challenges the reproduction of the linear narratives that hide multiple sites of violence. Going beyond examining individual temporal experiences of trauma, this article interrogates how different ways of enacting trauma time, originating from systemic sources of GBV, reveal non-linear and multiple temporalities. It also contributes to a deeper understanding of societal contestations over negotiating and challenging temporal order.
"Emotional Practices of Anger: The Case of the anti-Japan-US Security Treaty Protests (1959-1960)" in Cambridge Review of International Affairs (Forthcoming)
This article explores the emotional practice of anger within the anti-Japan-US Security Treaty protests of 1959-60 (the Anpo protests) in Japan. Why and how did protesters express anger in the anti-Japan-US security treaty protests? Existing studies on the protests have underexplored emotions and offered limited explanation about why different groups had different agendas and targets of blame. Building upon practice theory and frame analysis, I seek to offer a new account for the interplay between anger practices and social protests. This article contends that the protesters practiced their anger to signal how serious the issues were to them, to identify injustices, and to demand action. It further argues that injustice frames, especially the frames of war and democracy, played a role in justifying the protesters’ anger and mobilising collective action. This article aims to provide a nuanced understanding of the emotional aspect of the Japanese popular protests over foreign policy and contributes to theorising emotional practices in social protests.
"Global Human Rights Institutions" (co-authored with Minju Kwon) in The Sage Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies. Sage (2025)
This chapter revisits global human rights institutions in the context of peace and conflict. While global human rights institutions have played a significant role in establishing and enhancing standards of human rights practices worldwide, they have faced various criticisms and challenges from scholars and practitioners. Especially with the increasing complexity of conflicts and peace efforts involving diversified actors, critics have raised problems regarding global human rights institutions, such as the fundamental assumption of universality, the lack of inclusiveness, the arbitrariness of implementation, and the ineffectiveness of operations.
“Global Emotion Studies in IR: Embracing Non-Western Voices” in Yong-soo Eun eds. Going beyond Parochialism and Fragmentation in the Study of International Relations. Routledge (2020)
This chapter aims to elucidate why International Relations needs a genuinely ‘global’ study of emotion in achieving pluralism by actively embracing non-Western voices; second, to elaborate on the merits of doing it. It discusses what might have been neglected in the Western-centric approaches to emotions and explores several potential outcomes of incorporating non-Western voices on emotion into the study on emotion. Accordingly, emotion studies face a challenging task of navigating the interaction between Western and non-Western. First and foremost, exploring non-Western thought will shed new light on the current study of emotion by deepening theoretical debates on emotion. The chapter demonstrates that emotion researchers have tended to base their theoretical foundation of emotions on concepts and knowledge derived mainly from the West and so might reproduce Western-centric and universalised conceptions of emotion, which undermines cultural and regional differences in the non-West.
“Can states trust each other? (Review article)” (co-authored with Minchul Kim) in History of European Ideas, Vol. 45, No.4 (2019)
“Reflecting a ‘Pluralist turn’ in International Relations (Book review)" in International Studies Review Vol. 20, Issue 3 (2018)
"Taking Stock of Emotion Studies in IR: where do we stand and here are we heading?” (co-authored with Yong-soo Eun) in Yong-soo Eun (ed). World Politics 28: World of Emotions, Politics (2018) [in Korean]
“Emotion Studies in IR: Critical Review and Theoretical Suggestion” Korean Journal of International Relations, Vol.57, No.3 (2017) [in Korean]