Jessamyn R Abel
Biographic Data
| ID | 206468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessamyn R Abel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessamyn R |
| FAMILY NAME | Abel |
| SIGNATURE | ABEL J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
J eremy A. Y ellen . The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War
In this thoroughly researched book, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War, Jeremy Yellen traces the shifting policy significance and evolving meanings of the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” both within Japan and in other countries caught up in that imagined space. The book contributes to a growing body of scholarship that, rather than simply dismissing wartime rhetoric as no more than a flimsy cover …
Technologies of Cold War Diplomacy: Transforming Postwar Japan
In the mid-1960s, the Japanese government brought a technology focus to its relations with the United States, aiming to build respect for Japan as an equal partner in world affairs, as well as a source of high-quality industrial products. Efforts to replace its identity as an impoverished and defeated enemy with that of Cold War ally, trade partner, and industrial competitor were constrained by Americans' preconceptions and the particular functio…
Railway Stations and the Production of Invisible Infrastructures: Response to “Adventures in Infrastructure: Making an Africa Hub in Paris” by Julie Kleinman
The Power of a Line
Japan’s first bullet train played a central role in the reshaping of both the urban geographies and metropolitan identities of Tokyo, Osaka, and the region as a whole. This article considers the 1964 opening of the “New Tōkaidō Line” in terms of the social construction of space in order to highlight the interaction between ideas and physical infrastructure, and to consider the dynamics of power over space. The discourse surrounding the bullet tra…
Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan by Kate McDonald
Reviewed by: Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan by Kate McDonald Jessamyn R. Abel (bio) Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan. By Kate McDonald. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2017. xviii, 254 pages. $34.95, paper. Since at least the publication in 1998 of Louise Young's path-breaking Japan's Total Empire, scholars have been exploring the many ways in which cultural activit…
Ethics and Internationalism in Japanese Education, 1933-45
After their government's 1933 withdrawal from the League of Nations, Japanese internationalists searched for new ways to engage with the world or struggled to accommodate their advocacy of international cooperation to the realities of the wartime empire. The idea of international morality was central to this effort. Ethics textbooks, which presented ideals of international behaviour, provide a particular view of this intellectual and policy endea…
Japan's Sporting Diplomacy: The 1964 Tokyo Olympiad
At a time when Japanese foreign policy was constrained by the legacies of war and the exigencies of the Cold War, hosting the 1964 Tokyo Olympics was conceived as an alternative means of engagement with the international community. The sporting diplomacy of the Tokyo Olympics centered around elevating Japan’s international position by engaging the people of the world on a grassroots level. The pervasive notion that sports are separate from politi…
Partners for Democracy: Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur
Japan's Sporting Diplomacy: The 1964 Tokyo Olympiad
At a time when Japanese foreign policy was constrained by the legacies of war and the exigencies of the Cold War, hosting the 1964 Tokyo Olympics was conceived as an alternative means of engagement with the international community. The sporting diplomacy of the Tokyo Olympics centered around elevating Japan’s international position by engaging the people of the world on a grassroots level. The pervasive notion that sports are separate from politi…
Railway Stations and the Production of Invisible Infrastructures: Response to “Adventures in Infrastructure: Making an Africa Hub in Paris” by Julie Kleinman
The Power of a Line
Japan’s first bullet train played a central role in the reshaping of both the urban geographies and metropolitan identities of Tokyo, Osaka, and the region as a whole. This article considers the 1964 opening of the “New Tōkaidō Line” in terms of the social construction of space in order to highlight the interaction between ideas and physical infrastructure, and to consider the dynamics of power over space. The discourse surrounding the bullet tra…
Partners for Democracy: Crafting the New Japanese State under MacArthur
Japan's Sporting Diplomacy: The 1964 Tokyo Olympiad
At a time when Japanese foreign policy was constrained by the legacies of war and the exigencies of the Cold War, hosting the 1964 Tokyo Olympics was conceived as an alternative means of engagement with the international community. The sporting diplomacy of the Tokyo Olympics centered around elevating Japan’s international position by engaging the people of the world on a grassroots level. The pervasive notion that sports are separate from politi…
Ethics and Internationalism in Japanese Education, 1933-45
After their government's 1933 withdrawal from the League of Nations, Japanese internationalists searched for new ways to engage with the world or struggled to accommodate their advocacy of international cooperation to the realities of the wartime empire. The idea of international morality was central to this effort. Ethics textbooks, which presented ideals of international behaviour, provide a particular view of this intellectual and policy endea…
The Power of a Line
Japan’s first bullet train played a central role in the reshaping of both the urban geographies and metropolitan identities of Tokyo, Osaka, and the region as a whole. This article considers the 1964 opening of the “New Tōkaidō Line” in terms of the social construction of space in order to highlight the interaction between ideas and physical infrastructure, and to consider the dynamics of power over space. The discourse surrounding the bullet tra…
Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan by Kate McDonald
Reviewed by: Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan by Kate McDonald Jessamyn R. Abel (bio) Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan. By Kate McDonald. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2017. xviii, 254 pages. $34.95, paper. Since at least the publication in 1998 of Louise Young's path-breaking Japan's Total Empire, scholars have been exploring the many ways in which cultural activit…
J eremy A. Y ellen . The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War
In this thoroughly researched book, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War, Jeremy Yellen traces the shifting policy significance and evolving meanings of the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” both within Japan and in other countries caught up in that imagined space. The book contributes to a growing body of scholarship that, rather than simply dismissing wartime rhetoric as no more than a flimsy cover …
Technologies of Cold War Diplomacy: Transforming Postwar Japan
In the mid-1960s, the Japanese government brought a technology focus to its relations with the United States, aiming to build respect for Japan as an equal partner in world affairs, as well as a source of high-quality industrial products. Efforts to replace its identity as an impoverished and defeated enemy with that of Cold War ally, trade partner, and industrial competitor were constrained by Americans' preconceptions and the particular functio…
Railway Stations and the Production of Invisible Infrastructures: Response to “Adventures in Infrastructure: Making an Africa Hub in Paris” by Julie Kleinman
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · Empire (3 works) · History (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Law (3 works)