{"id":3104,"date":"2018-10-02T20:50:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T00:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=3104"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:50","slug":"labour-in-japan-civil-society-grass-root-organizations","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/people\/labour-in-japan-civil-society-grass-root-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikolas Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>Before beginning your studies at the Institute of Political Economy where did you study and what program(s) were you enrolled in?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The University of Ottawa&#8217;s International Studies and Modern Languages B.A&nbsp;program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>What is it specifically that attracted you to study Political Economy at Carleton?<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The small size of the department, the exciting of range&nbsp;topics explored by the faculty and students, the multidisciplinary approach fostered and encouraged by the faculty and the friendliness and help provided by&nbsp;the administration created the perfect storm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>My areas of research interest include\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The&nbsp;flexibilisation of labour in Japan and how it might impact Japanese civil society organizations. I find it very interesting to look at small groups like neighbourhood associations to observe this phenomena. Also&nbsp;Japanese political economy more generally!<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>What other activities have you been involved in lately? <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">I am currently doing research for a major research paper relating to Japanese political economy, and go to Japan often for fun and to work. I find it&#8217;s important to be a part of Japanese culture in order to continue to&nbsp;develop a contextualized understanding of the&nbsp;place I am writing about!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>What advice would you give to a prospective Political Economy graduate student?<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the perfect institute to find yourself. Don&#8217;t have a topic that you&#8217;re dying to write about? Don&#8217;t worry, study here and you will find that you will acquire all the tools you need to conduct meaningful research and grow as a nice, informed human being. You will read things that might make you feel cynical about human progress so try to stay positive, and take in lots of sunlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3105,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Nikolas ","cu_people_last_name":"Harrison","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[89],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-3104","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Labour in Japan, civil society, grass root organizations","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=3104"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=3104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}