Chris Mcmorran
Biographic Data
| ID | 2062736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Mcmorran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmorran |
| SIGNATURE | MCMORRAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2684-9630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic
This paper reflects on what we learnt about teaching geography during the COVID-19 pandemic. We interrogate how we, as geography educators working in different contexts, navigated the novel teaching spaces created during the pandemic using two key registers; courageous and compassionate pedagogies. Our premise is that understanding in more nuanced form the approaches we took to creating courageous and compassionate education during the pandemic m…
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Assessment and learning without grades? Motivations and concerns with implementing gradeless learning in higher education
The relationship between assessment and learning in higher education often comes down to a single thing: a grade. Despite widespread criticism of grades as inexact tools, whose overemphasis undermines student learning and negatively affects student well-being, they continue to be the norm in the assessment of student learning. This paper analyses an alternate form of assessment: so-called ‘gradeless learning’. This study theoretically and geograp…
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms offers a broad overview of the great diversity of feminist thought and practice in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present. Drawing on methodologies and approaches from anthropology, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, literature, media studies, and sociology, each chapter presents the results of research based on some combination of original archival research, careful textual analy…
From volunteers to voluntours: Shifting priorities in post-disaster Japan
This paper analyses the emergence of post-disaster ‘voluntours’ following Japan's 2011 disasters. An overwhelming, yet haphazard volunteer response to previous disasters spurred extensive collaboration between the state, relief organizations, and would-be volunteers in the wake of 3.11. However, when mapped onto to the massive devastation of the 3.11 disasters, this collaboration almost immediately turned many post-disaster volunteers into ‘volun…
Unthinking the nation state as area: Interrogating Japan and Japanese studies
Geographers and others have recently addressed the problematic of area studies by suggesting alternate ways to recognize the connectedness of peoples and places. However, some areas seem so self-evident as to resist their undoing. One such area is the nation state. In this paper, I examine the resilience of the nation state as area through the example of Japanese studies. I discuss the emergence in the United States of Japanese studies as a field…
Between fan pilgrimage and dark tourism: Competing agendas in overseas field learning
10.1080/03098265.2015.1084495
Mobilities Amid the Production of Fixities: Labor in a Japanese Inn
Building on recent interest in fixities within mobilities studies, this article analyzes the ‘production of fixities’ in Japanese inns, or ryokan. I describe the complex ways that different scales and regimes of mobility interact on the bodies, personal lives, careers, and aspirations of inn employees. I show how the daily grind of producing fixity for tourists engenders ambivalence toward both movement and stasis, mediated through gender, age, a…
Practising workplace geographies: Embodied Labour as Method in Human Geography
Embodied experience, situated corporeal knowledge(s), and bodily mobility lie at the forefront of many research agendas within geography. However, the body has been largely ignored in workplace studies. That is, the context‐specific, embodied daily practices of work remain overlooked within workplace geographies. In this paper, I reiterate a call made nearly two decades ago for more analyses of ‘bodies at work’ in geography, and I suggest a way o…
Anthony Rausch, Cultural commodities in Japanese rural revitalization: Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware and Tsugaru Shamisen. Brill, 2010, 200pp
Understanding the 'Heritage' in Heritage Tourism: Ideological Tool or Economic Tool for a Japanese Hot Springs Resort
This study examines the complex relationship between the economic and ideological aspects of heritage, as observed in Kurokawa Onsen, a hot springs resort located on the island of Kyushu, Japan. In the 1980s, this remote village reinvented itself, on the way to becoming a nationally recognized tourist destination that currently attracts around one million visitors a year. The town's success is largely due to its utilization of a nation-wide nosta…
Practising workplace geographies: Embodied Labour as Method in Human Geography
Embodied experience, situated corporeal knowledge(s), and bodily mobility lie at the forefront of many research agendas within geography. However, the body has been largely ignored in workplace studies. That is, the context‐specific, embodied daily practices of work remain overlooked within workplace geographies. In this paper, I reiterate a call made nearly two decades ago for more analyses of ‘bodies at work’ in geography, and I suggest a way o…
Understanding the 'Heritage' in Heritage Tourism: Ideological Tool or Economic Tool for a Japanese Hot Springs Resort
This study examines the complex relationship between the economic and ideological aspects of heritage, as observed in Kurokawa Onsen, a hot springs resort located on the island of Kyushu, Japan. In the 1980s, this remote village reinvented itself, on the way to becoming a nationally recognized tourist destination that currently attracts around one million visitors a year. The town's success is largely due to its utilization of a nation-wide nosta…
Mobilities Amid the Production of Fixities: Labor in a Japanese Inn
Building on recent interest in fixities within mobilities studies, this article analyzes the ‘production of fixities’ in Japanese inns, or ryokan. I describe the complex ways that different scales and regimes of mobility interact on the bodies, personal lives, careers, and aspirations of inn employees. I show how the daily grind of producing fixity for tourists engenders ambivalence toward both movement and stasis, mediated through gender, age, a…
Between fan pilgrimage and dark tourism: Competing agendas in overseas field learning
10.1080/03098265.2015.1084495
Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic
This paper reflects on what we learnt about teaching geography during the COVID-19 pandemic. We interrogate how we, as geography educators working in different contexts, navigated the novel teaching spaces created during the pandemic using two key registers; courageous and compassionate pedagogies. Our premise is that understanding in more nuanced form the approaches we took to creating courageous and compassionate education during the pandemic m…
From volunteers to voluntours: Shifting priorities in post-disaster Japan
This paper analyses the emergence of post-disaster ‘voluntours’ following Japan's 2011 disasters. An overwhelming, yet haphazard volunteer response to previous disasters spurred extensive collaboration between the state, relief organizations, and would-be volunteers in the wake of 3.11. However, when mapped onto to the massive devastation of the 3.11 disasters, this collaboration almost immediately turned many post-disaster volunteers into ‘volun…
Unthinking the nation state as area: Interrogating Japan and Japanese studies
Geographers and others have recently addressed the problematic of area studies by suggesting alternate ways to recognize the connectedness of peoples and places. However, some areas seem so self-evident as to resist their undoing. One such area is the nation state. In this paper, I examine the resilience of the nation state as area through the example of Japanese studies. I discuss the emergence in the United States of Japanese studies as a field…
Understanding the 'Heritage' in Heritage Tourism: Ideological Tool or Economic Tool for a Japanese Hot Springs Resort
This study examines the complex relationship between the economic and ideological aspects of heritage, as observed in Kurokawa Onsen, a hot springs resort located on the island of Kyushu, Japan. In the 1980s, this remote village reinvented itself, on the way to becoming a nationally recognized tourist destination that currently attracts around one million visitors a year. The town's success is largely due to its utilization of a nation-wide nosta…
Anthony Rausch, Cultural commodities in Japanese rural revitalization: Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware and Tsugaru Shamisen. Brill, 2010, 200pp
Practising workplace geographies: Embodied Labour as Method in Human Geography
Embodied experience, situated corporeal knowledge(s), and bodily mobility lie at the forefront of many research agendas within geography. However, the body has been largely ignored in workplace studies. That is, the context‐specific, embodied daily practices of work remain overlooked within workplace geographies. In this paper, I reiterate a call made nearly two decades ago for more analyses of ‘bodies at work’ in geography, and I suggest a way o…
Between fan pilgrimage and dark tourism: Competing agendas in overseas field learning
10.1080/03098265.2015.1084495
Mobilities Amid the Production of Fixities: Labor in a Japanese Inn
Building on recent interest in fixities within mobilities studies, this article analyzes the ‘production of fixities’ in Japanese inns, or ryokan. I describe the complex ways that different scales and regimes of mobility interact on the bodies, personal lives, careers, and aspirations of inn employees. I show how the daily grind of producing fixity for tourists engenders ambivalence toward both movement and stasis, mediated through gender, age, a…
Unthinking the nation state as area: Interrogating Japan and Japanese studies
Geographers and others have recently addressed the problematic of area studies by suggesting alternate ways to recognize the connectedness of peoples and places. However, some areas seem so self-evident as to resist their undoing. One such area is the nation state. In this paper, I examine the resilience of the nation state as area through the example of Japanese studies. I discuss the emergence in the United States of Japanese studies as a field…
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Assessment and learning without grades? Motivations and concerns with implementing gradeless learning in higher education
The relationship between assessment and learning in higher education often comes down to a single thing: a grade. Despite widespread criticism of grades as inexact tools, whose overemphasis undermines student learning and negatively affects student well-being, they continue to be the norm in the assessment of student learning. This paper analyses an alternate form of assessment: so-called ‘gradeless learning’. This study theoretically and geograp…
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms offers a broad overview of the great diversity of feminist thought and practice in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present. Drawing on methodologies and approaches from anthropology, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, literature, media studies, and sociology, each chapter presents the results of research based on some combination of original archival research, careful textual analy…
From volunteers to voluntours: Shifting priorities in post-disaster Japan
This paper analyses the emergence of post-disaster ‘voluntours’ following Japan's 2011 disasters. An overwhelming, yet haphazard volunteer response to previous disasters spurred extensive collaboration between the state, relief organizations, and would-be volunteers in the wake of 3.11. However, when mapped onto to the massive devastation of the 3.11 disasters, this collaboration almost immediately turned many post-disaster volunteers into ‘volun…
Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic
This paper reflects on what we learnt about teaching geography during the COVID-19 pandemic. We interrogate how we, as geography educators working in different contexts, navigated the novel teaching spaces created during the pandemic using two key registers; courageous and compassionate pedagogies. Our premise is that understanding in more nuanced form the approaches we took to creating courageous and compassionate education during the pandemic m…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Social science (3 works)