Koji Lau‐ozawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 185820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Koji Lau‐ozawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Koji |
| FAMILY NAME | Lau‐ozawa |
| SIGNATURE | OZAWA K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Diaspora on the block
We reconceptualize interpretations of life in multiethnic urban neighborhoods. • Uses archaeological collections from Santa Barbara’s historic Japantown. • Draws on zooarchaeological analysis of animal bone from two deposits. • Results show that neighborhoods rather than households are a useful scale of study. The archaeology of diaspora has grown in many directions during the first two decades of the 21st century. It has become a key way of unde…
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete
The World War II mass incarceration of Japanese Americans was a traumatic event that had lasting repercussions on multiple communities. Archaeologists have sought to productively pursue community-based methodologies in studying this period, employing object-based oral histories, outreach events, and community participation in fieldwork. However, less scholarly attention has looked to the ways in which materials have become central to understandin…
Conglomerate infrastructures
Largescale programs require complex and integrated infrastructures to carry out the aims of power. In the case of the WWII mass removal and incarceration of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast of the US, scholars have focused their attention on incarceration camps and landscapes far removed from towns and cities. This article instead examines the wartime civil control stations which were erected for several weeks to several months in …
Inscriptions and Silences
Critical Mass
Dissonant memories of Japanese American incarceration
Memories of the Japanese American Incarceration Camps during WWII vary widely across America. For some, memories of the incarceration are a focal point of their identity and a driver of political action. Others who underwent this imprisonment choose not to recall their experiences. Incarceration can haunt their descendants as an ever-present but silenced past. Broadly, the United States’ relationship to this past is fractured. Activists invoke th…
Bearing Witness to the Injustices of Mass Incarceration
Archaeology as Bearing Witness
Archaeology as Bearing Witness
Dissonant memories of Japanese American incarceration
Memories of the Japanese American Incarceration Camps during WWII vary widely across America. For some, memories of the incarceration are a focal point of their identity and a driver of political action. Others who underwent this imprisonment choose not to recall their experiences. Incarceration can haunt their descendants as an ever-present but silenced past. Broadly, the United States’ relationship to this past is fractured. Activists invoke th…
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete
The World War II mass incarceration of Japanese Americans was a traumatic event that had lasting repercussions on multiple communities. Archaeologists have sought to productively pursue community-based methodologies in studying this period, employing object-based oral histories, outreach events, and community participation in fieldwork. However, less scholarly attention has looked to the ways in which materials have become central to understandin…
Conglomerate infrastructures
Largescale programs require complex and integrated infrastructures to carry out the aims of power. In the case of the WWII mass removal and incarceration of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast of the US, scholars have focused their attention on incarceration camps and landscapes far removed from towns and cities. This article instead examines the wartime civil control stations which were erected for several weeks to several months in …
Bearing Witness to the Injustices of Mass Incarceration
Critical Mass
Inscriptions and Silences
Diaspora on the block
We reconceptualize interpretations of life in multiethnic urban neighborhoods. • Uses archaeological collections from Santa Barbara’s historic Japantown. • Draws on zooarchaeological analysis of animal bone from two deposits. • Results show that neighborhoods rather than households are a useful scale of study. The archaeology of diaspora has grown in many directions during the first two decades of the 21st century. It has become a key way of unde…
Bearing Witness to the Injustices of Mass Incarceration
Archaeology as Bearing Witness
Dissonant memories of Japanese American incarceration
Memories of the Japanese American Incarceration Camps during WWII vary widely across America. For some, memories of the incarceration are a focal point of their identity and a driver of political action. Others who underwent this imprisonment choose not to recall their experiences. Incarceration can haunt their descendants as an ever-present but silenced past. Broadly, the United States’ relationship to this past is fractured. Activists invoke th…
Inscriptions and Silences
Critical Mass
Conglomerate infrastructures
Largescale programs require complex and integrated infrastructures to carry out the aims of power. In the case of the WWII mass removal and incarceration of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast of the US, scholars have focused their attention on incarceration camps and landscapes far removed from towns and cities. This article instead examines the wartime civil control stations which were erected for several weeks to several months in …
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete
The World War II mass incarceration of Japanese Americans was a traumatic event that had lasting repercussions on multiple communities. Archaeologists have sought to productively pursue community-based methodologies in studying this period, employing object-based oral histories, outreach events, and community participation in fieldwork. However, less scholarly attention has looked to the ways in which materials have become central to understandin…
Diaspora on the block
We reconceptualize interpretations of life in multiethnic urban neighborhoods. • Uses archaeological collections from Santa Barbara’s historic Japantown. • Draws on zooarchaeological analysis of animal bone from two deposits. • Results show that neighborhoods rather than households are a useful scale of study. The archaeology of diaspora has grown in many directions during the first two decades of the 21st century. It has become a key way of unde…
History (8 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works)