Expectation and uncertainty: How Generative AI Reorders Institutional Hierarchies in Higher Education

‘We are not from here originally, but we are thriving, we are living’
Senarillos, Hannah and Murakami, Kyoko 2026. ‘We are not from here originally, but we are thriving, we are living’. The Psychologist.

Matcha as a culinary hybrid and simulacra
Murakami, K. 2026. Matcha as a culinary hybrid and simulacra. in: Shruti Arora, Anukrati Sharma and Morady, F. (ed.) Knowledge Systems in Global Cuisine and Food Art Springer Nature.

Facemask memories: A qualitative approach to people’s construal of protective health behaviours
Perach, R., Murakami, K. and Loveday, C. 2026. Facemask memories: A qualitative approach to people’s construal of protective health behaviours. European Review of Applied Psychology. 76 (3) 101178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erap.2026.101178

Remembering the second world war’s Burma campaign with the descendants of Japanese fighters on the 80th anniversary of VJ day
Murakami, K. 2025. Remembering the second world war’s Burma campaign with the descendants of Japanese fighters on the 80th anniversary of VJ day. The Conversation.

Tracking the object: a case of a small-scale Developmental Work Research-based intervention
McSweeney, M. and Murakami, K. 2024. Tracking the object: a case of a small-scale Developmental Work Research-based intervention. in: Levant, A., Murakami, K. and McSweeney, M. (ed.) Activity Theory: An Introduction Ibidem Press.

Silence as a magnifying glass for uncertainty and affect: The qualitative case studies of Karin and Dana’s journals
Lehmann, O. and Murakami, K. 2024. Silence as a magnifying glass for uncertainty and affect: The qualitative case studies of Karin and Dana’s journals. Culture and Psychology. 30 (4), pp. 1107-1129. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X241253658

Teachers’ Ideological Dilemmas during the Pandemic at Higher Education Institutions
Murakami, Kyoko, Kondo, Sachihiko and Hong, Jianzhong 2024. Teachers’ Ideological Dilemmas during the Pandemic at Higher Education Institutions. Human Arenas. 7, pp. 907-930. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-022-00292-9

‘I like it when I can sit with my best friends’: Exploration of children's agency to achieve commensality in school mealtimes
Stone, Samantha and Murakami, Kyoko 2023. ‘I like it when I can sit with my best friends’: Exploration of children's agency to achieve commensality in school mealtimes. in: Lalli, G., Turner, A. and Rutland, M. (ed.) Food Futures in Education and Society Routledge. pp. 207-216

Growing Older with Haiku: What Haiku Offers to Japanese Expats in Denmark
Murakami, K. 2023. Growing Older with Haiku: What Haiku Offers to Japanese Expats in Denmark. in: Lehmann, Olga V. and Synnes, Oddgeir (ed.) A Poetic Language of Ageing Bloomsbury Academic.

Getting Older with Haiku: What Haiku Offers to Japanese in Denmark
Murakami, K. 2023. Getting Older with Haiku: What Haiku Offers to Japanese in Denmark. in: Lehmann, O.V. and Synnes, O. (ed.) A Poetic Language of Ageing Bloomsbury.

‘I like it when I can sit with my best friends’
Samantha Stone and Murakami, K. 2023. ‘I like it when I can sit with my best friends’. in: Stone, S. and Murakami, K. (ed.) Food Futures in Education and Society Routledge.

Japan’s Obon festival: how family commemoration and ancestral worship shapes daily life
Murakami, K. 2022. Japan’s Obon festival: how family commemoration and ancestral worship shapes daily life. The Conversation.

The carnivalesque pedagogy
Murakami, K. 2021. The carnivalesque pedagogy. in: Culture as Process Springer. pp. 193–199

Measured Lives - Theoretical Psychology in an Era of Acceleration
Ditte Winther-Lindqvist, Andrés Haye, Dorte Kousholt, Kyoko Murakami, Morten Nissen and Ramiro Tau 2021. Measured Lives - Theoretical Psychology in an Era of Acceleration. International Review of Theoretical Psychologies. 1 (2). https://doi.org/10.7146/irtp.v1i2.127969

Children’s subversive interactions in the school mealtime
Stone, Samantha and Murakami, Kyoko 2021. Children’s subversive interactions in the school mealtime. Culture & Psychology. 27 (4), pp. 645 - 660. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067x21989952

Children's humour and the grotesque pleasures in school mealtime socialisation
Stone, Samantha and Murakami, Kyoko 2021. Children's humour and the grotesque pleasures in school mealtime socialisation. Children & Society. 35 (5), pp. 799-812. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12451

Learning in retirement
Murakami, K. 2021. Learning in retirement. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction. 28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2020.100463

The art of dialogic silence in the way of tea
Murakami, K. 2019. The art of dialogic silence in the way of tea. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 25 (1), pp. 43-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2018.1448881

A Qualitative Research Method to Explore Meaning-Making Processes in Cultural Psychology
Lehmann, Olga, Murakami, Kyoko and Klemp, Hroar 2019. A Qualitative Research Method to Explore Meaning-Making Processes in Cultural Psychology. FQS: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research. 20 (2). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3190

Ethos of theorising
Murakami, Kyoko, Cresswell, James, Kono, Tetsuya and Zittoun, Tania 2019. Ethos of theorising. Captus Press Inc.

Research on social remembering and intercultural understanding: Situating Anglo-Japanese reconciliation in the late 1990's
Murakami, K. 2018. Research on social remembering and intercultural understanding: Situating Anglo-Japanese reconciliation in the late 1990's. Ryukoku University’s Bulletin of International Socio Cultural Research Institute. 19.

Revisiting the Past: A Discursive Psychological Approach to Anglo-Japanese Reconciliation Over the Second World War
Murakami, K. 2018. Revisiting the Past: A Discursive Psychological Approach to Anglo-Japanese Reconciliation Over the Second World War. in: Discourse, Peace, and Conflict: Discursive Psychology Perspectives Springer. pp. 149–166

Dialogue as Poetic Imagination in the Way of Tea
Murakami, K. 2017. Dialogue as Poetic Imagination in the Way of Tea. in: Lehmann, O., Chaudhary, N., Bastos, A. and Abbey, E. (ed.) Poetry And Imagined Worlds Palgrave Macmillan.

Materiality of Memory: The Case of the Remembrance Poppy
Murakami, K. 2017. Materiality of Memory: The Case of the Remembrance Poppy. in: Wagoner, B. (ed.) Handbook of Culture and Memory Oxford University Press. pp. 117-132

Connecting dots: Family reminiscence
Murakami, K. and Jacobs, Rachel L. 2017. Connecting dots: Family reminiscence. in: Memory Practices and Learning: Interactional, Institutional and Sociocultural Perspectives Information Age Publishing. pp. 293-315

Pilgrimage for Anglo-Japanese Reconciliation Reinterpreting the past by British Second World War veterans
Murakami, K. 2017. Pilgrimage for Anglo-Japanese Reconciliation Reinterpreting the past by British Second World War veterans. in: Eade, J, and Katić, M, (ed.) Military Pilgrimage and Battlefield Tourism: Commemorating the Dead Routledge.

Dialogic Pedagogy: An Introduction
Skidmore, David and Murakami, Kyoko 2016. Dialogic Pedagogy: An Introduction. in: Dialogic pedagogy: the importance of dialogue in teaching and learning Multilingual Matters.

Claiming our own space: Polyphony in teacher-student dialogue
Skidmore, D. and Murakami, K. 2016. Claiming our own space: Polyphony in teacher-student dialogue. in: Skidmore, D. and Murakami, K. (ed.) Dialogic pedagogy: The importance of dialogue in teaching and learning Multilingual Matters. pp. 220-238

Prosodic Chopping: A Pedagogic Tool to Signal Shifts in Academic Task Structure
Zhao, X., Skidmore, D. and Murakami, K. 2016. Prosodic Chopping: A Pedagogic Tool to Signal Shifts in Academic Task Structure. in: Skidmore, D. and Murakami, K. (ed.) Dialogic pedagogy: The importance of dialogue in teaching and learning Multilingual Matters. pp. 203-219

How prosody marks shifts in footing in classroom discourse
Skidmore, David and Murakami, Kyoko 2016. How prosody marks shifts in footing in classroom discourse. in: Dialogic pedagogy: The importance of dialogue in teaching and learning Multilingual Matters. pp. 186-202

Dialogic Pedagogy: The Importance of Dialogue in Teaching and Learning
Skidmore, David and Murakami, Kyoko 2016. Dialogic Pedagogy: The Importance of Dialogue in Teaching and Learning. Multilingual Matters.

Discursively managing sensitivity
Murakami, K. 2016. Discursively managing sensitivity. in: Case Studies in Discourse Analysis Lincom Europa Academic Publishers. pp. 335-352

Dialogism and Education
Skidmore, D. and Murakami, K. 2016. Dialogism and Education. in: Dialogic Pedagogy: The Importance of Dialogue in Teaching and Learning Multilingual Matters.

Conceptions of effort among students, teachers and parents within an English secondary school
Stables, A., Murakami, K., McIntosh, S. and Martin, S. 2014. Conceptions of effort among students, teachers and parents within an English secondary school. Research Papers in Education. 29 (5), pp. 626-648. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2013.878376

Commemoration reconsidered
Murakami, K. 2014. Commemoration reconsidered. Memory Studies. 7 (3), pp. 33-353. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698014530623

Culture in Action: A Discursive Approach
Murakami, K. 2012. Culture in Action: A Discursive Approach. in: Valsiner, J. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology Oxford University Press. pp. 468-486

Discursive Psychology of Remembering and Reconciliation
Murakami, K. 2012. Discursive Psychology of Remembering and Reconciliation. Nova Science Publishers.

Time for Memory: Beyond Spatial Metaphors?
Murakami, K. 2012. Time for Memory: Beyond Spatial Metaphors? Culture and Psychology. 18 (1), pp. 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X11427468

Claiming our own space: Polyphony in teacher-student dialogue
Skidmore, D. and Murakami, K. 2012. Claiming our own space: Polyphony in teacher-student dialogue. Linguistics and Education. 23 (2), pp. 200-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2012.02.003

History as a dynamic process: reanalysisng a case of Anglo-Japanese reconciliation
Murakami, K. 2012. History as a dynamic process: reanalysisng a case of Anglo-Japanese reconciliation. in: Carretero, M., Asensio, M. and Rodríguez-Moneo, M. (ed.) History Education and the Construction of National Identities Information Age Publishing.

Commentary to part II: Dialogical methodologies in practice
Murakami, K. 2011. Commentary to part II: Dialogical methodologies in practice. in: Märtsin, M., Wagoner, B. and Aveling, E-L. (ed.) Dialogicality in Focus: Challenges to Theory, Method and Application Nova Science Publishers. pp. 163-170

How prosody marks shifts in footing in classroom discourse
Skidmore, D. and Murakami, K. 2011. How prosody marks shifts in footing in classroom discourse. Syposium on Exploration of Talk and Interaction in Classroom Research, International Society for Culture and Activity Research (ISCAR) Conference. Sapienza University, Rome, Italy 05 Sep 2011

Liminality in Language Use: Some Thoughts on Interactional Analysis from a Dialogical Perspective
Murakami, K. 2010. Liminality in Language Use: Some Thoughts on Interactional Analysis from a Dialogical Perspective. Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science. 44, pp. 30-38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-010-9115-x

How prosody marks shifts in footing in classroom discourse
David Skidmore and Murakami, Kyoko 2010. How prosody marks shifts in footing in classroom discourse. International Journal of Educational Research. 49 (2-3), pp. 69-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2010.09.001

'The cup of humanity’: Art of Silence and liminality through Chado, the way of tea” (the organised syposium 'Rethinking ‘dialogicality’: Art of silence and inner dialogue
Murakami, K. 2010. 'The cup of humanity’: Art of Silence and liminality through Chado, the way of tea” (the organised syposium 'Rethinking ‘dialogicality’: Art of silence and inner dialogue. 6th International Conference on the Dialogical Self. Athens, Greece 30 Sep 2010

Learning on work placement: The narrative development of social competence
Murakami, K., Murray, L., Sims, D. and Chedzey, K. 2009. Learning on work placement: The narrative development of social competence. Journal of Adult Development. 16, pp. 13-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10804-008-9044-9

Does our teaching ring true? Prosody in whole-class discussion
Skidmore, D. and Murakami, K. 2009. Does our teaching ring true? Prosody in whole-class discussion. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER). Vienna, Austria 28 Sep 2009

The prosody of pedagogy
David Skidmore and Murakami, K. 2009. The prosody of pedagogy. The First Researchers' Conference - Exploring New Territories: Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration. Bath, UK United Kingdom 12 Feb 2009

Positioning in accounting for redemption and reconciliation
Murakami, K. 2007. Positioning in accounting for redemption and reconciliation. Culture and Psychology. 13 (4), pp. 431-452. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067x07082803

Work placements as narrative learning: Stories for learning and for counterpoint
Sims, D., Murray, L., Murakami, K. and Chedzey, K. 2006. Work placements as narrative learning: Stories for learning and for counterpoint. International Journal of Innovation and Learning. 3 (5), pp. 468-487. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijil.2006.010484

Grave matters: Collectivity and agency as emergent effects in remembering and reconciliation
Murakami, K. and Middleton, D. 2006. Grave matters: Collectivity and agency as emergent effects in remembering and reconciliation. Ethos. 34 (2), pp. 273-296. https://doi.org/10.1525/eth.2006.34.2.273

Review Essay: Reflexivity of In-between-Cultural Positions in Analysing Discourse
Murakami, K. 2006. Review Essay: Reflexivity of In-between-Cultural Positions in Analysing Discourse. Culture & Psychology. 12 (1), pp. 87-100. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067x06061595

Orientation to the Setting: Discursively Accomplished Intersubjectivity
Murakami, K. 2003. Orientation to the Setting: Discursively Accomplished Intersubjectivity. Culture and Psychology. 9 (3), pp. 233 - 248. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067x030093005

Collectivity and agency in remembering and reconciliation.
Middleton, D. and Murakami, K. 2003. Collectivity and agency in remembering and reconciliation. Outlines. Critical Practice Studies. 5 (1), pp. 16-30. https://doi.org/10.7146/ocps.v5i1.2158

Social practices of reconciliation: Iruka Boys' reconciliation trip
Murakami, K. 2003. Social practices of reconciliation: Iruka Boys' reconciliation trip. Japan Anthropology Workshop Newsletter. 36, pp. 54-63.

Review Essay: Beyond Cultural Scripts in Cross-Cultural Psychology
Murakami, K. 2002. Review Essay: Beyond Cultural Scripts in Cross-Cultural Psychology. Culture and Psychology. 8 (4), pp. 459-474. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067x0284004

Identity in action: Blame and apology in rememberance of war
Murakami, K. and Middleton, D. J . 2002. Identity in action: Blame and apology in rememberance of war. in: Selves and voices: Goffman, Viveka and Dialogue Linköping University Electronic Press. pp. 193-206

Socially organised use of memories of mother in narrative reconstruction of problematic pasts
Murakami, K. 2002. Socially organised use of memories of mother in narrative reconstruction of problematic pasts. Narrative Inquiry. 12 (2), pp. 381-390. https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.12.2.09mur

Talk about Rice: A Discursive Approach to Studying Culture.
Murakami, K. 2001. Talk about Rice: A Discursive Approach to Studying Culture. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research. 2 (3).