Julia Adeney Thomas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3695381 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Julia Adeney Thomas |
| NOMBRES | Julia Adeney |
| APELLIDO | Thomas |
| FIRMA | THOMAS J A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0374-9776 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1925 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Neither Growth nor Degrowth but Redundancy
Collingwood’s Cat
Altered Earth
Altered Earth aims to get the Anthropocene right in three senses. With essays by leading scientists, it highlights the growing consensus that our planet entered a dangerous new state in the mid-twentieth century. Second, it gets the Anthropocene right in human terms, bringing together a range of leading authors to explore, in fiction and non-fiction, our deep past, global conquest, inequality, nuclear disasters, and space travel. Finally, this la…
Altered Earth
Earth System Science, Anthropocene Historiography, and Three Forms of Human Agency
This programmatic essay argues that meaningful historical engagement with the Anthropocene begins with recognizing that the concept arises not only from geology but also from Earth System science (ESS), which has evolved to incorporate both physical systems and human systems in an integrated view of our planet. It makes the case that this holistic understanding alters both the science and the history of the Anthropocene by introducing a novel for…
Visualizing Fascism
Visualizing Fascism argues that fascism was not merely a domestic menace in a few European nations, but arose as a genuinely global phenomenon in the early twentieth century. Contributors use visual materials to explore fascism's populist appeal in settings around the world, including China, Japan, South Africa, Slovakia, and Spain. This visual strategy allows readers to see the transnational rise of the right as it fed off the agitated energies …
Reconfiguring Modernity
Julia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity. She shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changing ideas of nature's political authority were central during Japan's transformation from a semifeudal world to an industrializing colonial empire. In p…
Using Japan to Think Globally
Japan's Competing Modernities
Scholars, Japanese and non-Japanese alike, have studied the greater Taisho era (1900-1930) within the framework of Taisho demokurashii (democracy). While this concept has proved useful, students of the period in more recent years have sought alternative ways of understanding the late Meiji-Taisho period. This collection of essays, each based on new research, offers original insights into various aspects of modern Japanese cultural history from "m…
Why Do Only Some Places Have History
This essay analyzes why historians in Japan as in the West concentrate on only a few places, primarily their home countries and Europe. It responds to the challenge laid down by Luke Clossey and Nicolas Guyatt in their 2013 study, “It’s a Small World After All,” which revealed the parochialism of British, Canadian, and U.S. historians. By examining the geographical focus of the historical profession in Japan, I show that history confronts the pro…
Confronting Climate Change
Previous articleNext article FreeReflections CollectionConfronting Climate Change: The Uneasy Alliance of Scientists and Nonscientists in a Neoliberal WorldJulia Adeney ThomasJulia Adeney Thomas Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIn January 2017, a phalanx of climate denialists and skeptics s…
The Shock of the Anthropocene
Despite its dire topic, The Shock of the Anthropocene is almost playful in its proliferation of invented terms for our global environmental catastrophe. Bonneuil and Fressoz reject ‘Anthropocene’ o
Historia económica en el Antropoceno
Bajo la amenaza global del Antropoceno, la historia ambiental y la historia económica se conjugan para alcanzar mayor entendimiento de la situación actual. Este nuevo campo de la "historia eco-económica" rastrea el impactoecológico del sorprendente aumento en la productividad de la economía mundial en los últimos dos siglos. La naturaleza ya no es vista como una externalidad y el daño a los recursos no renovables ya no se minimiza. He identificad…
JAS Round Table on Amitav Ghosh,The Great Derangement
Amitav Ghosh, perhaps Asia's most prominent living author, moves among many genres and across vast territories. His fiction-The Circle of Reason(1986),The Shadow Lines(1988),The Glass Place(2000),The Hungry Tide(2004), andThe Ibistrilogy-takes us from Calcutta where he was born in 1956 to the Arabian Sea, Paris, London, and back again to the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and beyond. His nonfiction-In an Antique Land(1992),Dancing in Cambodia a…
Coda
This chapter demonstrates a brief tour of paleobiology, microbiology, and biochemistry, humans trying to come to grips with climate change and to define the endangered human for us. Microbiologists describe the human as a coral reef of many species, evolving at different rates and in different ways. With both paleobiology and microbiology, one can remain essentially organic, natural in the sense of being constituted of organic cells created with …
CommunicationsReviews
Journal Article Communications Get access The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 4, October 2015, Pages 1605–1610, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/120.4.1605 Published: 09 October 2015
Reclaiming Ground
For their patient and perceptive readings of versions of my own work, I thank Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Eric Dinmore, Fabian Drixler, Geoff Eley, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Andrew Gordon, Robert Hellyer, David Howell, Mark Metzler, Geoffrey Parker, Kenneth Pomeranz, Daniel Lord Smail, and Amy Beth Stanley
History and Biology in the Anthropocene
Japan at Nature's Edge
This book explores the relationship between Japan's history, culture, and physical environment. It expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan's role in global environmental transformation and how Japanese ideas have shaped bodies and landscapes over the centuries. The immediacy of Earth's environmental crisis, a predicament highlighted by Japan's March 2011 disaster, brings a sense of urgency to the study of J…
Japan at Nature's Edge
Japan at Nature's Edge
Rethinking Historical Distance
Troubled Natures
Reviewed by: Troubled Natures: Waste, Environment, Japan Julia Adeney Thomas (bio) Troubled Natures: Waste, Environment, Japan. By Peter Wynn Kirby. University of Hawai‘i Press, Honolulu, 2011. xii, 250 pages. $49.00. Peter Wynn Kirby refers to his book as “a penetrating cultural analysis” (pp. 2–3), but Troubled Natures would be described more accurately as a series of ruminations on contemporary Japan loosely organized around the themes of envi…
Bonds of Civility
Bad Water
For decades, Marxist critical theory and environmental history were barely on speaking terms. For the theorists, a politics beholden to environmentalism either dragged us back to a romanticized, su
The Evidence of Sight
In The Archaeology of Knowledge, Michel Foucault focuses on excavating discursive formations, but he acknowledges that a pre-discursive reality, "the enigmatic treasure of 'things' anterior to discourse," also exists. This divide between the pre-discursive and the discursive is straddled, I argue, by photographs as historians use them. The reason for photography's dual capacity lies with the complex nature of sight, which is both precognitive (pr…
The Cage of Nature
The Cage of Nature" focuses on the concept of nature as a way to rethink Japanese and European versions of modernity and the historical tropes that distance "East" from "West." This essay begins by comparing Japanese political philosopher Maruyama Masao and his contemporaries, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. Both sets of authors define modernity as the moment when humanity overcomes nature, but Maruyama longs for this triumph while Horkheimer …
The Shock of the Anthropocene
Despite its dire topic, The Shock of the Anthropocene is almost playful in its proliferation of invented terms for our global environmental catastrophe. Bonneuil and Fressoz reject ‘Anthropocene’ o
Being Modern in Japan
JAS Round Table on Amitav Ghosh,The Great Derangement
Amitav Ghosh, perhaps Asia's most prominent living author, moves among many genres and across vast territories. His fiction-The Circle of Reason(1986),The Shadow Lines(1988),The Glass Place(2000),The Hungry Tide(2004), andThe Ibistrilogy-takes us from Calcutta where he was born in 1956 to the Arabian Sea, Paris, London, and back again to the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and beyond. His nonfiction-In an Antique Land(1992),Dancing in Cambodia a…
Power Made Visible
Despite the impact of the Allied occupation (1945–52), Japanese photography in the immediate postwar period was neither “art” nor “documentary” by American definitions. Instead, as the vigorous 1953 debate over “realism” shows, photographers such as Domon Ken and critics such as Tanaka Masao and Watanabe Kosho insisted that photography—at least real photography—was a political practice. It was political not because its aesthetic accomplishments b…
Earth System Science, Anthropocene Historiography, and Three Forms of Human Agency
This programmatic essay argues that meaningful historical engagement with the Anthropocene begins with recognizing that the concept arises not only from geology but also from Earth System science (ESS), which has evolved to incorporate both physical systems and human systems in an integrated view of our planet. It makes the case that this holistic understanding alters both the science and the history of the Anthropocene by introducing a novel for…
Reclaiming Ground
For their patient and perceptive readings of versions of my own work, I thank Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Eric Dinmore, Fabian Drixler, Geoff Eley, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Andrew Gordon, Robert Hellyer, David Howell, Mark Metzler, Geoffrey Parker, Kenneth Pomeranz, Daniel Lord Smail, and Amy Beth Stanley
The House of Commons, 1832-1867
Visualizing Fascism
Visualizing Fascism argues that fascism was not merely a domestic menace in a few European nations, but arose as a genuinely global phenomenon in the early twentieth century. Contributors use visual materials to explore fascism's populist appeal in settings around the world, including China, Japan, South Africa, Slovakia, and Spain. This visual strategy allows readers to see the transnational rise of the right as it fed off the agitated energies …
Confronting Climate Change
Previous articleNext article FreeReflections CollectionConfronting Climate Change: The Uneasy Alliance of Scientists and Nonscientists in a Neoliberal WorldJulia Adeney ThomasJulia Adeney Thomas Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIn January 2017, a phalanx of climate denialists and skeptics s…
Historia económica en el Antropoceno
Bajo la amenaza global del Antropoceno, la historia ambiental y la historia económica se conjugan para alcanzar mayor entendimiento de la situación actual. Este nuevo campo de la "historia eco-económica" rastrea el impactoecológico del sorprendente aumento en la productividad de la economía mundial en los últimos dos siglos. La naturaleza ya no es vista como una externalidad y el daño a los recursos no renovables ya no se minimiza. He identificad…
The House of Commons, 1832-1867
Being Modern in Japan
The Cage of Nature
The Cage of Nature" focuses on the concept of nature as a way to rethink Japanese and European versions of modernity and the historical tropes that distance "East" from "West." This essay begins by comparing Japanese political philosopher Maruyama Masao and his contemporaries, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. Both sets of authors define modernity as the moment when humanity overcomes nature, but Maruyama longs for this triumph while Horkheimer …
Reconfiguring ModernityConcepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology
Julia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity. She shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changing ideas of nature's political authority were central during Japan's transformation from a semifeudal world to an industrializing colonial empire. In p…
"Becoming "Japanese
Reviewed by: Thomas: “Becoming Japanese”: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation Julia Adeney Thomas Thomas: “Becoming Japanese”: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation. By Leo T. S. Ching. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. English-language books on Japan’s colonial adventures are remarkably scarce, particularly considering the extent of the Japanese empire. By the end of the Meiji per…
Japanese photography
Abstarct Ambition is the prevailing motif of The History of Japanese Photography. This exhibition catalogue claims to be ‘the first nuanced, thorough history of Japanese photography in a Western language’, introducing not only a broad audience of ‘Westerners to a stunning national tradition’ but also promoting ‘future research and cross cultural comparisons’. To this end, most of Japan's best curators and commentators were consulted, knowledgeabl…
Shomei Tomatsu
Reviewed by: Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation Julia Adeney Thomas (bio) Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation. By Leo Rubinfien, Sandra S. Phillips, and John W. Dower. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with Yale University Press, 2004. 224 pages. $45.00. Idiosyncratic though it is, Tōmatsu Shōmei's work exemplifies a precise moment in postwar photography. Tōmatsu (1930– ) came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s just as the me…
Power Made Visible
Despite the impact of the Allied occupation (1945–52), Japanese photography in the immediate postwar period was neither “art” nor “documentary” by American definitions. Instead, as the vigorous 1953 debate over “realism” shows, photographers such as Domon Ken and critics such as Tanaka Masao and Watanabe Kosho insisted that photography—at least real photography—was a political practice. It was political not because its aesthetic accomplishments b…
The Evidence of Sight
In The Archaeology of Knowledge, Michel Foucault focuses on excavating discursive formations, but he acknowledges that a pre-discursive reality, "the enigmatic treasure of 'things' anterior to discourse," also exists. This divide between the pre-discursive and the discursive is straddled, I argue, by photographs as historians use them. The reason for photography's dual capacity lies with the complex nature of sight, which is both precognitive (pr…
Gender and /ai/ monophthongization in African American English
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2013), pp. 449-463
Troubled Natures
Reviewed by: Troubled Natures: Waste, Environment, Japan Julia Adeney Thomas (bio) Troubled Natures: Waste, Environment, Japan. By Peter Wynn Kirby. University of Hawai‘i Press, Honolulu, 2011. xii, 250 pages. $49.00. Peter Wynn Kirby refers to his book as “a penetrating cultural analysis” (pp. 2–3), but Troubled Natures would be described more accurately as a series of ruminations on contemporary Japan loosely organized around the themes of envi…
The Exquisite Corpses of Nature and History
Environmental protection in the Korean DMZ is purely accidental. In 1953, no one gave a thought to protecting wildlife when a temporary truce halted the fighting there. Instead, North and South Korea and their respective allies wanted only to end the human savagery that had killed 10 percent of the peninsula's civilian population and resulted in military casualties numbering, on one side, 900,000 Chinese and 520,000 North Korean troops, and, on t…
Japan at Nature's Edge
This book explores the relationship between Japan's history, culture, and physical environment. It expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan's role in global environmental transformation and how Japanese ideas have shaped bodies and landscapes over the centuries. The immediacy of Earth's environmental crisis, a predicament highlighted by Japan's March 2011 disaster, brings a sense of urgency to the study of J…
Japan at Nature's Edge
Japan at Nature's Edge
Rethinking Historical Distance
Reclaiming Ground
For their patient and perceptive readings of versions of my own work, I thank Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Eric Dinmore, Fabian Drixler, Geoff Eley, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Andrew Gordon, Robert Hellyer, David Howell, Mark Metzler, Geoffrey Parker, Kenneth Pomeranz, Daniel Lord Smail, and Amy Beth Stanley
History and Biology in the Anthropocene
Coda
This chapter demonstrates a brief tour of paleobiology, microbiology, and biochemistry, humans trying to come to grips with climate change and to define the endangered human for us. Microbiologists describe the human as a coral reef of many species, evolving at different rates and in different ways. With both paleobiology and microbiology, one can remain essentially organic, natural in the sense of being constituted of organic cells created with …
CommunicationsReviews
Journal Article Communications Get access The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 4, October 2015, Pages 1605–1610, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/120.4.1605 Published: 09 October 2015
JAS Round Table on Amitav Ghosh,The Great Derangement
Amitav Ghosh, perhaps Asia's most prominent living author, moves among many genres and across vast territories. His fiction-The Circle of Reason(1986),The Shadow Lines(1988),The Glass Place(2000),The Hungry Tide(2004), andThe Ibistrilogy-takes us from Calcutta where he was born in 1956 to the Arabian Sea, Paris, London, and back again to the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and beyond. His nonfiction-In an Antique Land(1992),Dancing in Cambodia a…
Using Japan to Think Globally
Japan's Competing Modernities
Scholars, Japanese and non-Japanese alike, have studied the greater Taisho era (1900-1930) within the framework of Taisho demokurashii (democracy). While this concept has proved useful, students of the period in more recent years have sought alternative ways of understanding the late Meiji-Taisho period. This collection of essays, each based on new research, offers original insights into various aspects of modern Japanese cultural history from "m…
Why Do Only Some Places Have History
This essay analyzes why historians in Japan as in the West concentrate on only a few places, primarily their home countries and Europe. It responds to the challenge laid down by Luke Clossey and Nicolas Guyatt in their 2013 study, “It’s a Small World After All,” which revealed the parochialism of British, Canadian, and U.S. historians. By examining the geographical focus of the historical profession in Japan, I show that history confronts the pro…
Confronting Climate Change
Previous articleNext article FreeReflections CollectionConfronting Climate Change: The Uneasy Alliance of Scientists and Nonscientists in a Neoliberal WorldJulia Adeney ThomasJulia Adeney Thomas Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIn January 2017, a phalanx of climate denialists and skeptics s…
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