Iris Issen
they/she
ssistant professor, faculty of core research (human sciences), ochanomizu university
researching queer diasporas in Japan and Europe.
専門分野:クィア論・クィアの国際移動

research interest

my research concerns people who “cross borders”. by working with queer as an intersectional analytical category, I explore how “border crossing” (national, cultural, bodily) shapes and is shaped by social processes such as racialisation, cis- and hetero-normativity, nativism and nationalism in the context of globalisation and digitisation.
「クィア」を交差的な分析カテゴリーとして用い、「越境する」人々に焦点を当てています。グローバル化とデジタル化の文脈において、国家的、文化的、身体的なボーダーを越境することが、シス・ヘテロ規範、レイシャライゼーション、ナティビズム、ナショナリズムなどの社会的プロセスと文化的ナラティブをいかに形成し、またそれらによっていかに形成されるのかを探求しています。
transnarratives queer approach feminist critique
digital ethnography
queer as essentially diasporic
latest publications
When Digital Media Intersects with Queerness: Transnational Connectivity and the Sense of (Dis) Connectedness among Chinese Trans Women in Japan.
In Beatrice Zani and Isabelle Cheng ed.
Living Across Connectivity: Intimacy, Entrepreneurship and Activism of East Asian Migrants Online and Offline
London: Anthem Press, pp.113-136.


current projects
差別を自己正当化するメカニズム:在日トランスジェンダー中国人事例を中心に
*This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP23729000
Monograph Project: Queer Manifesto - Body and Memories in Diaspora

