Person

Deacon, Chris

His academic interests lie at the intersection of identity, memory and discourse in (international) politics. He is interested in the construction and contestation of identities through discursive practices – especially representations of the past – and the relationship between these identities and foreign policy and transnational interactions. In this regard, he mainly make use of critical constructivist and poststructuralist theoretical approaches to IR in his research. This thematic and theoretical approach combines with his regional expertise in East Asia – especially Japan and the Koreas – to result in his current particular interest in the role of memory and identity in Japan-South Korea relations.