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YONEDA Yusaku

Department / Course Ritsumeikan University Graduate School Graduate School of International Relations Major in International Relations

Job

Books and theses
Papers		Transformation of Salafist Political Attitudes during the “Arab Spring” Period: “Democracy” and “Parliamentary Politics” for Egypt’s al-Da‘wa al-Salafīya Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies 17,pp.25-45 (Sole-authored) 2024/03/31
Papers		"2021 Opinion Poll in Syria: Sampling Method and Descriptive Statistics" RSGC-Online Paper Series／Research Report No.15／No.8,pp.1-66 (Co-authored) 2022/10/31
Papers		Salafism in Contemporary Egyptian Politics: Focusing on the Establishment and Transformation of al-Da‘wa al-Salafīya and its Political Parties (Sole-authored) 2022/03
Papers		A Critical Review on Contemporary Salafism Studies: Towards a Comprehensive Analysis Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies, 14,pp.307-318 (Sole-authored) 2021/03/19

Academic background
2022/04～	Major in International Relations Graduate School of International Relations Ritsumeikan University
2020/04～2022/03	Major in International Relations Graduate School of International Relations Ritsumeikan University Completed

Business career
2022/04/01 ～	Ritsumeikan Advanced Research Academy (RARA)
2022/04/01 ～	Doctoral Course (DC) Research Fellowships Japan Society for Promotion of Science

Academic conference attendance and presentation
2025/02/15	“The Glocal Turn of Salafism, or Salafism Studies?: Reconsidering ‘Post-Salafism’ from the Case of Egypt’s al-Da‘wa al-Salafīya” (The 2nd GSMEIAS Colloquium (JP/EN Bilingual International Workshop))
2024/12/08	Exploring Salafist Views  on the Palestine Question: Egypt’s al-Da‘wa al-Salafīya and the ‘Gaza War’ after ‘October 7’ (The 15th Conference of the Asian Federation of Middle East Studies Associations (AFMA))
2024/05/12	Salafists’ Views of Extremism in Contemporary Egypt: Focusing on al-Da‘wa al-Salafīya’s Struggle for Survival (The 40th Annual Meeting of Japan Association for Middle East Studies)
2024/02/24	Researching the Intersections of Religio-Political History, Political Science, and the Study of Thought (Islamic studies): From the Perspective of a Scholar on Salafism and Politics in Contemporary Egypt (The 1st Colloquium of the Graduate Student Society for Middle Eastern and Islamic Area Studies)
2024/02/02	“Islam” and “Politics” in Egypt after the 2011 Arab Spring: Focusing on the Intellectual Transformation of al-Da‘wa al-Salafīya
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Research activities
	Japan Association for Middle East Studies
	Association for Islamic Studies in Japan
	British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)
	The Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan

Present specialized field
Area studies, International relations, Politics, Religious studies, History of thought keyword(Salafism, Islamism. Contemporary Middle Eastern Politics, Egypt, Politics and Religion after the Arab Spring, Islamic Political Thought and Action, Middle East Area Studies, Fieldwork)

Academic awards you received
2020/03	College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University Best Graduation Thesis Award

Activity in society
2023/09/30	UIII-RU International Symposium Perusing Asian and Islamic Visions on Moderation, Development, and Cooperation: Indonesia-Japan Collaborations
2023/07/11	NUQ-RU Global Symposium on Language, Mobility, and Knowledge Production in the New Era
2021/05/15 ～ 2021/05/16	Support staff for the 37th Annual Meeting of Japan Association for Middle East Studies
2020/08/29 ～ 2020/08/30	Support staff for the 36th Annual Meeting of Japan Association for Middle East Studies, Special Academic Meetings

Graduate Students' Project and Research Society
Graduate Student Society for Middle Eastern and Islamic Area Studies（AY2023）
Graduate Student Society for Middle Eastern and Islamic Area Studies（AY2024）

Teaching Assistant
2023/04/01 2023/07/31

Research Assistant
2022/04/01 2024/03/31

Research Fellowships for Young Scientists
2022/04/22 2025/03/31

Internal Scholarship and Research Grants receiving status
2024 2025	KENKYUKAI-KATSUDO Grant(Grant for Student Research Societies), Graduate Student Society for Middle Eastern and Islamic Aria Studies
2024 2025	Ritsumeikan University KENKYU-SHOREI Scholarship S (Prize Fellowships for the Doctoral Students)
2023 2024	KENKYUKAI-KATSUDO Grant(Grant for Student Research Societies), Graduate Student Society for Middle Eastern and Islamic Aria Studies
2023 2024	Ritsumeikan University KENKYU-SHOREI Scholarship S (Prize Fellowships for the Doctoral Students)
2022 2023	Ritsumeikan University KENKYU-SHOREI Scholarship S (Prize Fellowships for the Doctoral Students)
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Self and Research introduction
Religion and Politics in the Contemporary Middle East: My research interests are in the dynamics of post-2011 Arab Spring politics and religion, focusing on the Salafist and Salafist movements. Egypt is my primary field of study.

External Scholarship and Research Grants receiving status
2020 2022
2024 2025