教員紹介

教員紹介

学歴/Education

Ph.D. The University of Pittsburgh

経歴/Appointment

國立臺灣大學政治學系 訪問學者/Visiting Scholar, National Taiwan University, The Department of Political Science
早稲田大学 日本学術振興会PD/JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Waseda University
東京大学教養学部 講師/Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo, The College of Arts and Sciences

研究テーマ/Research Theme

I’m a historian of political thought with a focus on the Japanese empire, particularly on Colonial Taiwan, and with a strong theoretical interest in Marxist historiography, postcolonialism, and rhetoric and politics. My current research primarily concerns the relationship between capitalism and historical time through which some labor, land, time, space, and people become invisible while others become visible.

I’m currently working on a book-length project, Capital Accumulation and Indigenous Resistance: Colonial Taiwan in the Global History of Racial Capitalism. This project interrogates the conditions of possibility under which Indigenous peoples were rendered historically unintelligible within the historiography of colonial Taiwan, a historiographical formation structured overwhelmingly around the presumption of Han subjectivity. Rather than treating this absence as a merely discursive omission, the study situates it within the material and political operations of global capital accumulation. Specifically, it examines how the equation “Taiwanese = Han” emerged as both the political and material effect of dual—Japanese and Han—settler colonialism, and how this process was inseparable from the historical erasure of Indigenous peoples whose dispossession of land and labor constituted a necessary condition for the reproduction of colonial capital. Moreover, the project reconstructs Indigenous practices of resistance not simply as empirical events, but as historically situated forms of praxis that disclose the structural contradictions of racial capitalism. The broader aim is to reposition colonial Taiwan within the global history of capital, empire, and settler-colonial formation. Methodologically, the project draws on critical Marxist historiography and the theoretical framework of racial capitalism to analyze colonial Taiwan as a site where the expanded reproduction of capital depended on racialized and gendered regimes of primitive accumulation. By foregrounding the multilayered processes through which Japanese imperial authorities and settlers, as well as Han settlers, appropriated Indigenous land and labor, the study makes visible forms of Indigenous agency that have remained structurally occluded within nationalist and colonial historiographies alike. Rather than reproducing the historical narrative of modernization that underlies both imperial and postcolonial accounts, the project attends to the uneven and non-synchronic temporalities through which capital reconfigured space, labor, and subjectivity.

業績/Publication

論文/Journal Article	Tomonori Teraoka. “Fragmented Legitimacy: The Rhetorical Construction of Constitutional Legitimacy in Postwar Japan.” Global Intellectual History 7 (2022): 346-372 doi:10.1080/23801883.2020.1855080.
	Tomonori Teraoka & Keren Wang. “Legitimation Crisis of the Japanese Constitution: Reflection on Japan’s Judicial Rhetoric and the Post WWII Constitutionalization Process.” Communication Law Review 20, no.1 (2020): 99-127.
	Tomonori Teraoka. “A Court as the Process of Signification: Legal Semiotics of the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons” International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique 30, no. 1 (2017): 115–127. doi: 10.1007/S11196-016-9484-7.
	Tomonori Teraoka. “Towards the New Democratic Accessibility: The Politics of Mis- Communication and Democracy 2.0.” Keio Communication Review 39 (2017): 55-72.
本の章/Book Chapter	Tomonori Teraoka, Keren Wang, Larry Backer, and Nabih Haddad, “Democratizing the Global Business and Human Rights Project by Catalyzing Strategic Litigation from the Bottom Up” in Business and Human Rights: Moving Forward, Looking Back. Edited by Karen E. Bravo and Jena Martin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).

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