David Fedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1259484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Fedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Fedman |
| SIGNATURE | FEDMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Memory and Morphology
This source note introduces a rich and largely unknown archive of Tokyo’s long history of urban conflagration: sensai jumoku, the scores of trees scattered across the city that carry the scars of wartime firebombing in their morphology. It profiles five particular war-damaged trees, each offering different insights into the interpretative challenges and opportunities that come with working in this arboreal archive of destruction. Far from static …
Seeds of Control
Conservation as a tool of colonialism in early twentieth-century Korea Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of “forest love,” the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting everything from home heating to food preparation. Ti…
The Ondol Problem and the Politics of Forest Conservation in Colonial Korea
This article examines the ondol—the cooking stove–cum–heated floor system conventional to Korean dwellings—as a site of contestation over forest management, fuel consumption, and domestic life in colonial Korea. At once a provider of heat essential to survival in an often frigid peninsula and, in the eyes of colonial officials, ground zero of deforestation, the ondol garnered tremendous interest from an array of reformers determined to improve th…
Wartime Forestry and the "Low Temperature Lifestyle" in Late Colonial Korea, 1937-1945
This article examines the emergence in colonial Korea of a command economy for forestry products following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45). It does so, first, by tracing the policy mechanisms through which the colonial state commandeered forest products, especially timber, firewood, and charcoal. Second, through an analysis of the wartime promotion of a "low temperature lifestyle," it offers a thumbnail sketch of the lived …
The Optics of Urban Ruination
World War II yielded many photographs of bombed-out cities. In this paper we telescope between two sets and scales of images that represent the principal frames through which the American and Japanese publics have memorialized the incendiary bombings that laid waste to urban Japan: aerial photographs taken by the US Army Air Forces during its wartime planning, prosecution, and assessment of the raids; and the ground-level images captured by Ishik…
Korea
Triangulating Chōsen
Drawing from an assortment of government reports, contemporary publications, and cartographic materials, this article examines the triangulation survey conducted by the Japanese government-general in Korea from 1910 to 1918. In addition to elucidating the mapmaking process, it explores the ways in which the triangulation survey both reflected and promoted Japan's colonial authority in Korea and abroad. By turns, the author provides a broad sketch…
A cartographic fade to black
In this paper we examine the history, production, and use – practical and rhetorical – of maps created by the United States government during World War II as related to the development and execution of aerial bombing policies against Japan. Drawing from a range of maps and primary documents culled from libraries and archives in the United States, we argue that maps provide an important, and hitherto neglected, means through which to trace the exp…
Japanese Colonial Cartography
Mapmaking was everywhere at the heart of the colonial enterprise. As David Fedman documents, Japan early on prioritized mastery of the highest international standards of cartography in the colonies and dependencies from Hokkaido and Okinawa to Taiwan, Korea and Manchukuo. Not only did precise maps provide a means for heightening Japanese control, but the very process of map making established the Japanese colonial presence throughout the land. Ca…
Mounting Modernization
Writing in 1919, shortly after his first solo winter ascent of Yarigatake (3180 meters), the then 24 year-old alpinist Itakura Katsunobu waxed poetic on the Japan Alps: At the seat of heavenwhere peaks and valleys come into viewI climb in a sea of whitenessto see inside myself
A cartographic fade to black
In this paper we examine the history, production, and use – practical and rhetorical – of maps created by the United States government during World War II as related to the development and execution of aerial bombing policies against Japan. Drawing from a range of maps and primary documents culled from libraries and archives in the United States, we argue that maps provide an important, and hitherto neglected, means through which to trace the exp…
Wartime Forestry and the "Low Temperature Lifestyle" in Late Colonial Korea, 1937-1945
This article examines the emergence in colonial Korea of a command economy for forestry products following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45). It does so, first, by tracing the policy mechanisms through which the colonial state commandeered forest products, especially timber, firewood, and charcoal. Second, through an analysis of the wartime promotion of a "low temperature lifestyle," it offers a thumbnail sketch of the lived …
The Optics of Urban Ruination
World War II yielded many photographs of bombed-out cities. In this paper we telescope between two sets and scales of images that represent the principal frames through which the American and Japanese publics have memorialized the incendiary bombings that laid waste to urban Japan: aerial photographs taken by the US Army Air Forces during its wartime planning, prosecution, and assessment of the raids; and the ground-level images captured by Ishik…
Triangulating Chōsen
Drawing from an assortment of government reports, contemporary publications, and cartographic materials, this article examines the triangulation survey conducted by the Japanese government-general in Korea from 1910 to 1918. In addition to elucidating the mapmaking process, it explores the ways in which the triangulation survey both reflected and promoted Japan's colonial authority in Korea and abroad. By turns, the author provides a broad sketch…
A cartographic fade to black
In this paper we examine the history, production, and use – practical and rhetorical – of maps created by the United States government during World War II as related to the development and execution of aerial bombing policies against Japan. Drawing from a range of maps and primary documents culled from libraries and archives in the United States, we argue that maps provide an important, and hitherto neglected, means through which to trace the exp…
Japanese Colonial Cartography
Mapmaking was everywhere at the heart of the colonial enterprise. As David Fedman documents, Japan early on prioritized mastery of the highest international standards of cartography in the colonies and dependencies from Hokkaido and Okinawa to Taiwan, Korea and Manchukuo. Not only did precise maps provide a means for heightening Japanese control, but the very process of map making established the Japanese colonial presence throughout the land. Ca…
Mounting Modernization
Writing in 1919, shortly after his first solo winter ascent of Yarigatake (3180 meters), the then 24 year-old alpinist Itakura Katsunobu waxed poetic on the Japan Alps: At the seat of heavenwhere peaks and valleys come into viewI climb in a sea of whitenessto see inside myself
Korea
The Optics of Urban Ruination
World War II yielded many photographs of bombed-out cities. In this paper we telescope between two sets and scales of images that represent the principal frames through which the American and Japanese publics have memorialized the incendiary bombings that laid waste to urban Japan: aerial photographs taken by the US Army Air Forces during its wartime planning, prosecution, and assessment of the raids; and the ground-level images captured by Ishik…
The Ondol Problem and the Politics of Forest Conservation in Colonial Korea
This article examines the ondol—the cooking stove–cum–heated floor system conventional to Korean dwellings—as a site of contestation over forest management, fuel consumption, and domestic life in colonial Korea. At once a provider of heat essential to survival in an often frigid peninsula and, in the eyes of colonial officials, ground zero of deforestation, the ondol garnered tremendous interest from an array of reformers determined to improve th…
Wartime Forestry and the "Low Temperature Lifestyle" in Late Colonial Korea, 1937-1945
This article examines the emergence in colonial Korea of a command economy for forestry products following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45). It does so, first, by tracing the policy mechanisms through which the colonial state commandeered forest products, especially timber, firewood, and charcoal. Second, through an analysis of the wartime promotion of a "low temperature lifestyle," it offers a thumbnail sketch of the lived …
Seeds of Control
Conservation as a tool of colonialism in early twentieth-century Korea Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of “forest love,” the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting everything from home heating to food preparation. Ti…
On Memory and Morphology
This source note introduces a rich and largely unknown archive of Tokyo’s long history of urban conflagration: sensai jumoku, the scores of trees scattered across the city that carry the scars of wartime firebombing in their morphology. It profiles five particular war-damaged trees, each offering different insights into the interpretative challenges and opportunities that come with working in this arboreal archive of destruction. Far from static …
History (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Cartography (3 works) · Geographic Information Systems Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Art (2 works)