Dr Chris Deacon

Academic Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
Enabling international history wars: everyday mnemonic foreign policy in South Korean and Japanese popular culture. International Political Sociology 19(3), olaf018, 2025.
Mnemonic encounters: the construction and persistence of international ‘history wars’ and the case of Japan-South Korea relations. International Studies Quarterly 68(3), sqae114, 2024.
Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan. European Journal of International Relations 29(4), 1041-1065, 2023.
(Re)producing the ‘history problem’: memory, identity and the Japan-South Korea trade dispute. The Pacific Review 35(5), 789-820, 2022.
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Works-in-progress
Relational pasts: the conflictual international politics of memory and the Japan-South Korea history problem. (Book manuscript under review)
Remembering otherwise: counter-memories of colonial history in Japan and South Korea and the transformation of the history problem. (Article under review)
Globalising bilateral mnemonic conflict: litigating the ‘comfort women’ issue on the world stage. (Article in preparation)
The temporal politics of territorial disputes. (Article in preparation)
(In)significant Others: relational imbalance in international politics. (Article in preparation)
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