Dr. Jaok Kwon-Hein

Jaok

Max-Weber-Institut für Soziologie
Universität Heidelberg
Bergheimer Str. 58
69115 Heidelberg

Contact: LSF

Resarch Interests

  • Work and Employment
  • Labor and Gender: Productive and Reproductive Labor
  • Social Movements
  • Asian Capitalism
  • Business Elites in East Asia

Research Projects

Teaching

  • SS 2016, Seminar (BA/MA): Globalization, Labor and Gender in East Asia, Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University
  • SS 2013, Seminar (BA/MA): Gender and Work in contemporary Korea and Japan, Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University
  • WS 2011/2012, Seminar (BA/MA), International development Studies: Development and Gender in East Asia, Graduate School of Social Sociences, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

Publications

Monograph and Book Chapters

  • Kwon, Jaok (2015): Introductory to Social Development Studies, Edited by Hiroshi Sato, Akashishoten (auf Japanisch).
  • Kwon, Jaok (2010): “Family Planning and Gender Politics in South Korea in the 1960s-70s”, Gender and Society in East Asia, Edited with Kimoko Kimoto, Jyunpousha (auf Japanisch).
  • Kwon, Jaok (2009), Rural Development and Gender in South Korea: The Interface between the State, Women’s Movements and Rural Women in the 1960s-70s, Dissertation, Hitotsubashi University (auf Japanisch).
  • Kwon, Jaok (2005), Rural Development in South Korea in the 1960-1970, Korea International Cooperation Agency (auf Koreanisch).

Articles (peer-reviewed journals)

  • Kwon, Jaok (forthcoming), “Forging Feminism within Labor Union and Facing Legacy of Democracy Movements in South Korea”.
  • Kwon, Jaok and Markus Pohlmann (forthcoming). “Japanese Top Managers and Financial Market Orientation: Emergence of a neoliberal “spirit of capitalism?”
  • Kwon, Jaok, Markus Pohlmann and Jivanta Schöttli (forthcoming). “Corporation Elites in Japan: International Career Mobility and Education compared with East and South Asia”.
  • Kwon, Jaok (2013), “Gender Politics in Labor Movements in South Korea”, Gender Studies, pp. 63-83 (auf Japanisch).
  • Kwon, Jaok (2013), “Women’s Citizenship and Civil Society in South Korea: Gender Politics in Labor Movements”, The 5th Next-Generation Global Workshop Proceeding.
  • Kwon, Jaok (2012), Carving out Women’s Political Space in Civil Society, Jinbunshizenkennkyuu, pp. 118-143 (auf Japanisch).
  • Kwon, Jaok (2012), “Local Food Movements and Women’s Empowerment in South Korea, Journal of Consumer Co-operative, Consumer Co-operative Institute of Japan (auf Japanisch).
  • Kwon, Jaok (2011), “Forging Discursive Space for Women in Social Movements in South Korea, RIM, pp. 12-29 (Award of Gender Studies in Asia-Pacific).
  • Kwon, Jaok (2009), “Women’s Liberation Movement in Korea”, Gender Studies, pp. 55-76 (auf Japanisch).
  • Kwon, Jaok (2005), “A Theoretical Review on the Possibilities of building and strengthening Social Capital by Government Involvements”, Ikkyo Ronsou, pp. 306-317 (auf Japanisch).


Conference Proceeding (peer-reviewed)

  • Kwon, Jaok (2013), “Women’s Citizenship and Civil Society in South Korea: Gender Politics in Labor Movements”, The 5th Next-Generation Global Workshop Proceeding.

Conferences and Talks

  • “The Spirit of Management in Japan: Recruitment and Career Patterns of Business Elites in a Globalized Economy”, Max Weber and the new Spirit of Capitalism – Self Regulation and Corporate Governance in a Global Economy, Max-Weber Institute for Sociology, University of Heidelberg, December 12-14,2014, Germany
  • “Family Planning and Women’s Body Politics in South Korea (1960s-70s)”, Department of Chinese and Korean Studies of the Asia-Orient Institute (AOI), Tübingen University, December 3, 2013, Germany
  • “Women’s Body and Sexuality in South Korea: Developmental State and Family Planning in the 1960s-1970s”, Department of East Asian Studies, Frankfurt University, January 31, 2013, Germany
  • “Women’s Citizenship and Civil Society in South Korea: Gender Politics in Labor Movements”, The 5th Next-Generation Global Workshop, Kyoto University, November 6-7, 2012, Japan
  • “Local Food Movements and Rural Women’s Empowerment in South Korea, Consumer Co-operative Institute of Japan, February, 2012, Japan
  • “Women’s Citizenship and Civil Society in South Korea – Gender Politics in Labor Movements”, East-West Center, Honolulu, September 21, 2011, USA
  • “Debates on Gender and Class in Korea”, The Global COE (Center of Excellence) Workshop, The Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, November 29, 2010, Japan
  • “Forging Discursive for Women in Social Movements: A Case Study of Korean Peasant Women’s Movements in the 1960-80s”, 10th Biennial Pacific-Asia Conference on Korean Studies (PACKS 2010), The University of Auckland, November 24-25, 2010, New Zealand
  • “Feminism in Democracy Movements in Korea”, Joint Symposium with Tohoku University and University of California Riverside, Tohoku University, November 19-20, 2010, Japan
  • “Women’s Participation in Korean Peasant Movements”, Korea-Japan International Forum, June 26-27, 2010, Japan
  • “Civil Society and Gender in South Korea”, 2009. 7, Department of Chinese and Korean Studies of the Asia-Orient Institute (AOI), Tübingen University, Germany
  • “Feminists’ Struggle and Constraints to propagate Women’s Liberation in the 1970s: Case Study of Korean Catholic Rural Women’s Movement”, Asian Studies Conference Japan, Rikkyo University, June 21-22, 2008, Japan
  • “Organizing Rural Women in Korean Peasant Movements in the 1970s”, Chôsenshi Kenkyuukai, April 26, 2008, Japan

Curriculum Vitae

  • Seit Juni 2012 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Max-Weber-Institut für Soziologie, Universität Heidelberg, (2015: Elternzeit)
  • 2013 Visiting Research Fellow, Universität Hitotsubashi, Japan (funded by Korea-Japan Cultural Foundation)
  • 2011 Visiting Research Fellow, East West Center, USA (funded by POSCO Visiting Fellowship)
  • 2011 - 2012 Full-Time Lecturer, Universität Hitotsubashi, Japan
  • 2010 - 2011 Post Doctoral Researcher an der Universität Tohoku, Japan
  • 2004 - 2009 Studium der Soziologie, Promotion, Universität Hitotsubashi, Japan (fully funded)
  • 2002 - 2004 Studium der Soziologie, Diplom, Universität Hitotsubashi, Japan (fully funded)

Fellowships, Grants and Awards

  • 2016–2017 Research Grant, Competitive Research Grant, Academy of Korean Studies, Korea.
  • 2013 Visiting Fellowship, Korea-Japan Cultural Foundation, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
  • 2011 – 2012 Research Grant, Tokai Gender Research Institute Grant, Tokai Institute of Gender Studies, Japan
  • 2011-2012 Research Grant, Competitive Research Grant, Academy of Korean Studies, Korea
  • 2011 Visiting Fellowship, POSCO Visiting Fellowship, East-West Center, USA.
  • 2010 – 2011 Research Grant, Consumer Co-operative Institute of Japan
  • 2010- 2011 Research Grant, Global COE, Tohoku University, Japan
  • 2011 Award of Gender Studies in Asia-Pacific, Institute of Gender and Women’s Studies, Josai International University, Japan
  • 2007-2009 Scholarship, Nomura Cultural Foundation Scholarship, Japan
  • 2001-2007 Scholarship, Japanese Government Fellowship (Monbusho), Hitotsubashi University, Japan

Academic Journal Review

  • Seit 2011: External Referee of Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, Faculty of Arts, Universität Auckland, Neuseeland