Ken Kawashima
Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies
Areas of interest
- Modern Japanese History
- Colonial Korean History
- Marxist theory
Biography
Main Bio
Ken C. Kawashima is the author of The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan (Duke UP, 2009); co-editor of Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader (Cornell UP, 2014); and the English translator of Uno Kozo's Theory of Crisis (Brill, forthcoming). He teaches courses on the history of capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism in East Asia; on everyday life; on racism and fascism; and on Marxist theory.
A list of Professor Kawashima's presentations is also available.
Select publications
- “Towards a Thinking Against the Biopolitical Commodification of Labor Power” ( : 2021)
- “On Capitalist Crisis: Towards a Revolutionary Common Sense” (SAGE Publications : 2020)
- The Theory of Crisis by Uno Kozo (Translated by Ken Kawashima) (Brill Press and Haymarket Press, Historical Materialism Series : 2020)
- “The Hidden Area between Marx and Foucault” (Duke University Press : 2019)
- “Surplus Alongside Excess: Uno Kozo, Imperialism, and the Theory of Crisis" (Viewpoint Magazine (dossier on imperialism) : 2018)
- “The Voice of Interpellation and Capitalist Crisis: Notes toward an Investigation of Postwar Japanese Ideology” (Duke University Press : 2015)
- Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader (East Asia Program, Cornell University : 2013)
- The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan (Duke University Press : 2009)
- "The Obscene, Violent Supplement of State Power: Korean Welfare and Class Warfare in Interwar Japan" (Duke University Press : 2009)
- “Intermediary Exploitation: Korean Struggles in the Day Labor Market” (Duke University Press : 2009)
- “The Apology Effect: Ideology and the Mystification of Class Struggles in Japan and China” (Relay : 2007)
- “Reflections on Mike Davis’ Planet of Slums” (Vol : 2006)
- "Capital's Dice-Box Shaking: The Contingent Commodifications of Labor Power" ( Routledge/Taylor & Francis : 2005)
- "Becoming-Minor and Research on Koreans-in-Japan" (Zainichi Chosenjin-shi Kenkyukai (Journal for Research of Koreans-in-Japan) : 2000)