Hidefumi Nishiyama

PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher

Hidefumi Nishiyama is a postdoctoral researcher in the Geography Research Unit (GRU) at the University of Oulu. Hidefumi is currently undertaking the Academy of Finland project entitled, Spaces of Disregard: An agnotological approach to the geopolitics of Okinawa (2019-22). The project examines the role of ignorance in the contemporary geopolitics of militarised islands. Hidefumi joined GRU in 2017 as a postdoctoral researcher in the RELATE Centre of Excellence. He obtained his PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick in 2016 after completing his master's degree in Sociology at London School of Economics and Political Science and bachelor's degree in Sociology and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Research interests

Political geography
Postcolonial and decolonial studies
Border studies
Island studies
Security studies

Researcher information

Research groups

Regional and Political Geography

Researcher profiles

ORCID

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Publications

Nishiyama, H. (2022). Decolonizing knowledge of and from Okinawa. Critical Asian Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2022.2136098.

Nishiyama, H. (2022). Decolonial Encounter with Neo-nationalism: The politics of indigeneity and land rights struggle in Okinawa. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12582.

Nishiyama, H. (2022). Base built in the middle of ‘rice fields’: A politics of ignorance in Okinawa. Geopolitics 27(2), pp. 546-565. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2020.1801646.

Nishiyama, H. (2022). Base borders: Militarisation and (post-)colonial bordering in Okinawa. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F23996544221097232.

Nishiyama, H. (2022). Bodies and borders in post-imperial Japan: a study of the coloniality of biometric power. Cultural Studies 36(2), pp. 120-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2020.1788619.

Nishiyama, H. (2020). Racializing surveillance through language: the role of selective translation in the promotion of public vigilance against migrants. Ethnic and Racial Studies 43(10), pp. 1757-1775. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2019.1654115.

Nishiyama, H. (2019). Geopolitics of disregard: Living a colonial life in Okinawa. Political Geography 74, Article 102042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102042.

Nishiyama, H. (2018). Crowd surveillance: The (in)securitization of the urban body. Security Dialogue 49(3), pp. 200-216. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010617741436.

Nishiyama, H. (2018). ‘Measurement of Life’: The Disciplinary Power of Racism. In H. Richter (Ed.) Biopolitical Governance: Race, Gender and Economy (pp. 59-76). London: Rowman & Littlefield International.

Nishiyama, H. (2018). Surveillance as Race Struggle: On Browne's Dark Matters. Theory & Event, 20(1), 280-285.

Nishiyama, H. (2015). Towards a Global Genealogy of Biopolitics: Race, Colonialism, and Biometrics beyond Europe. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 33(2), pp. 331-346. https://doi.org/10.1068/d19912.

Nishiyama, H. (2014). Maritime Borders and Territories: A Topological Space of Exception and the Suspicious Vessel Case in Japan. In J. C. H. Liu & N. Vaughan-Williams (Eds.), European-East Asian Borders in Translation (pp. 113-132). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203746660.

Contact information

E-mail

Hidefumi.Nishiyama@oulu.fi

Visiting address

Room: FY327

Postal address

Geography Research Unit
P.O. Box 3000, 90014
University of Oulu
(Internal: MAAN3)

Keywords

Natural Sciences, Environment Geosciences political geography