University of Oxford

Post-Doc, Green Templeton College

Junior Research Fellow in Management

Green Templeton College

About

Tuukka Toivonen is Junior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford  as well as a Japan Foundation fellow. He currently investigates social entrepreneurship, innovation and young adults in East Asia but from a comparative angle. Tuukka is also a co-editor, with Roger Goodman and Yuki Imoto, of A Sociology of Japanese Youth (Routledge, 2012), the author of Japan's Emerging Youth Policy (Routledge, 2012) and an active member of his college's "Future of Work" programme.

Selected recent publications:
                                                                                             

In Press. Japan’s Emerging Youth Policy: Getting Young Adults Back to Work. Abingdon: Routledge. [Publication date: September 2012]

2012. A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From Returnees to NEETs.
Abingdon: Routledge. Co-edited with Roger Goodman and Yuki Imoto.

2012. ‘Caught between culture, society, and globalization: Youth
marginalization in post-industrial Japan’, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6(5): 361-378. (Norasakkunkit, Uchida & Toivonen).

2011. ‘Japanese youth after the triple disaster: How entrepreneurial students are overcoming barriers to volunteering and changing Japan’, Harvard Asian Quarterly, 8 (4): 53-62.

2011 ‘“Don’t let your child become a NEET!”: The strategic foundations of a Japanese youth scare’, Japan Forum, 23(3): 407–429.

2011 ‘Unable to conform, unwilling to rebel? Youth, globalization and motivation in Japan’, Frontiers in Cultural Psychology, 2 (article 207). (Toivonen, Norasakkunkit & Uchida)

2011 ‘Between reforms and birth rates: Germany, Japan and family policy discourse’, Social Politics,* 18 (3): 331-360. (Seeleib-Kaiser & Toivonen)

Contact Information