Publications – Rin Ushiyama

Monographs

Ushiyama, R. (2022). Aum Shinrikyō and Religious Terrorism in Japanese Collective Memory. British Academy Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Journal articles

Ushiyama, R. (2026) ‘Expanding the “Third Space” between Western and non-Western knowledge: Nakane Chie’s Japanese Society as anti-Eurocentric theory’, The Sociological Review, 74(1), 42-61.

Ushiyama, R. (2025) ‘The “laughing chorus” of ordinary actors: Mikhail Bakhtin’s sociology of critical capacity’, Journal of Political Power, 18(3), 380–398

Baert, P., Morgan, M., and Ushiyama, R. (2022) Introduction to the special issue on existence theory. Journal of Classical Sociology 22(1): 3–6.

Baert P., Morgan, M., and Ushiyama, R. (2022) ‘Existence Theory: Outline for a Theory of Social Behaviour.’ Journal of Classical Sociology 22(1): 7-29.

Baert, P., Morgan, M., and Ushiyama, R. (2022) Existence theory revisited: A reply to our critics. Journal of Classical Sociology 22(1): 107–116.

Jaworsky, B.N., Lo, MCL, Morgan, M., Thorpe, C. and Ushiyama, R. (2022) ‘Editorial Statement: Visions for Cultural Sociology in Uncertain Times’, Cultural Sociology.

Ushiyama, R. (2021) ‘‘‘Comfort Women Must Fall’? Japanese governmental responses to ‘comfort women’ statues around the world.’ Memory Studies 14(6): 1255-1271.

Ushiyama, R. (2019) ‘Latency Through Uncertainty: the 1994 Matsumoto Sarin Incident as a Delayed Cultural Trauma’, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 32(1), 21–41.

Ushiyama, R. (2019) ‘Discursive opportunities and the transnational diffusion of ideas: ‘brainwashing’ and ‘mind control’ in Japan after the Aum Affair’. British Journal of Sociology 70(5): 1730-1753.

Ushiyama, R. and Baert, P. (2016) ‘Cultural trauma, counter-narratives and dialogical intellectuals: the works of Murakami Haruki and Mori Tatsuya in the context of the Aum Affair’. Theory and Society 45(6): 471–499.

Ushiyama, R. (2014) ‘Richard Dawkins as a public intellectual after The God Delusion: a British study’. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 2(3): 300-326.

Edited Journal Special Issues

Special Issue Guest Co-editor with Baert P. and Morgan, M. (2022) ‘Existence Theory: Outline for a Theory of Social Behaviour.’ Journal of Classical Sociology, 22(1): 3-116

Book chapters in edited collections

Baert, P., Morgan, M., and Ushiyama, R. (2024) ‘Existence Theory and Contemporary Culture’, in Aho, K., Altman, M. and Pedersen, H., eds., The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism, London: Routledge, 71–80.

Ushiyama, R. (2020) ‘Reactions to legal challenges by Aum Shinrikyō and its successor organisations’, in Barker, E. and Richardson, J.T., eds, Reactions to the Law by Minority Religions, Abingdon: Routledge, 169–187.

Ushiyama, R. (2019) ‘Commemorating violence in and beyond liberal democracies’, in Violence and Democracy, London: British Academy, 13–17.

牛山凜 (2019) ‘オウム真理教事件をめぐる記憶と追悼についての一考察身心変容技法研究年報8号　65－77.[Ushiyama, R. (2019) ‘Oumu Shinrikyō jiken o meguru kioku to tsuitō ni tsuite no ichi kōsatsu’ (‘Considerations on the memory and commemoration of the Aum Shinrikyō Affair’).Shinshin Hen’yō Gihō Kenkyū Nenpō, Vol 8, pp. 65-77]

Book reviews

Ushiyama, R. (2021) ‘Shu-Mei Huang and Hyun Kyung Lee, Heritage, Memory, and Punishment: Remembering Colonial Prisons in East Asia. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020, 208 pages’, Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change 6(1).

Press/News Articles

Ushiyama, R. (2026) Japan’s ruling party secures historic election victory – but challenges lie ahead. The Conversation, February 9.

Media Interview: BBC News (2026) Life sentence for man who killed Japan’s ex-PM Shinzo Abe. January 21.

Media Interview: The Economist (2025) “What a popular murderer reveals about Japan”. October 30.

Media Interview: BBC News Brasil (2025) “Por que a direita radical está crescendo no Japão” (“Why the Radical Right is Growing in Japan”). August 20.

Ushiyama, R. (2025) Rightwing populist Sanseitō party shakes Japan with election surge. The Conversation, July 21.

Ushiyama, R. (2023) ‘Cults, Violence, and the Politics of Victimhood in Japan’, The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice Autumn 2023 Newsletter.

Ushiyama, R. (2022) ‘The View From Elsewhere – Photography and Memory‘, Source Photographic Review, Issue 107.