Aaron Skabelund
Biographic Data
| ID | 251021 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Skabelund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Skabelund |
| SIGNATURE | SKABELUND A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3211-776X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Inglorious, Illegal Bastards
In Inglorious, Illegal Bastards , Aaron Herald Skabelund examines how the Self-Defense Force (SDF), the post-World War II Japanese military, and specifically the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF), struggled for legitimacy in a society at best indifferent, and often hostile to its very existence. From the early iterations of the GDSF as the Police Reserve Force and the National Safety Force, through its establishment as the largest and most visible…
Defenders of Japan
Reviewed by: Defenders of Japan: The Post-Imperial Armed Forces, 1946–2016: A History by Garren Mulloy Aaron Skabelund (bio) Defenders of Japan: The Post-Imperial Armed Forces, 1946–2016: A History. By Garren Mulloy. Oxford University Press, 2021. xxvi, 416 pages. $45.00. In 2006, near the end of a three-year fellowship at one of Japan's national universities, I was asked to present my research on the Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF). I took the l…
Bite, Bite against the Iron Cage
This article examines the zoological gardens established by Japanese imperialists in colonial Seoul (1908) and Taipei (1914). Drawing on multilingual sources, it argues that zoos explicitly exposed the unequal interethnic and interspecies hierarchies that undergirded the colonial project. The colonial zoo was an ambivalent "dreamscape": a carefully constructed landscape of iron cages and manicured pathways wherein colonizers' dreams of ordering t…
Tigers—Real and Imagined—in Korea’s Physical and Cultural Landscape
Historically, people in Korea have valued tigers more as symbols than actual living beings. Premodern Koreans gave various cultural meanings to the tiger—including trickster, divine messenger, and protector. Yet violence characterized most actual encounters between tigers and humans. Various Korean dynasties, most significantly the Chosŏn (1392–1910), pursued wild tigers as threats and as sources of valuable fur. Human population growth, agricult…
Going to the Dogs
Journal Article Going to the Dogs: Greyhound Racing, Animal Activism, and American Popular Culture Get access Gwyneth Anne Thayer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. xvi, 296 pp. $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 641–642, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau393 Published: 01 September 2014
Religion in the Military Worldwide
How does religion affect the lives of professional soldiers? How does religion shape militaries, their organization, procedures, and performance? This volume is the first to address these questions by comparing religious symbols and practices in nine countries: Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Israel, Iran, India, the United States, and Turkey. The contributors explore how and why soldiers pray, the role of religious rituals prior to …
Transpacific Field of Dreams
Animals and Imperialism
In the last decade or so, an increasing number of historians have written about the relationship between animals and imperialism. Their work builds on pioneering scholarship by environmental historian Alfred Crosby and cultural historians Harriet Ritvo and John MacKenzie, among others. Recent writing on animals and imperialism, influenced by wider trends in animal studies and history, has taken this topic in new directions. Namely, history writin…
Empire of Dogs
Through this provocative account, Skabelund demonstrates how animals generally and canines specifically have contributed to the creation of our shared history, and how certain dogs have subtly influenced how that history is told. Generously illustrated with both color and black-and-white images, Empire of Dogs shows that human-canine relations often expose how people-especially those with power and wealth-use animals to define, regulate, and enfo…
Empire of Dogs
In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachikō. Each evening Hachikō greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya railway station. In May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine years the Akita waited at Shibuya Station, eventually becoming nationally and even internationally famous for his purported loyalty. A year before his death in 1935, the city of Tokyo erected a statue …
Fascism’s Furry Friends
Living With the Nightmare of Planes and Aircraft Carriers at U.S. Bases in Japan
In recent years, the mayors of cities hosting American bases in Japan, and particularly in Okinawa, propelled by powerful citizen movements, have resisted American plans for base reorganization that would expand the US military presence in their communities. In many cases, powerful pressure from Tokyo, in the form of threats to cut off development aid to local communities, and offers to buy off local opposition, have succeeded in dividing local c…
Breeding Racism
During the first half of the twentieth century, the Shepherd Dog came to be strongly identified with Imperial and Nazi Germany, as well as with many other masters in the colonial world. Through its transnational diffusion after World War I, the breed became a pervasive symbol of imperial aggression and racist exploitation. The 1930s Japanese empire subtly Japanized the dogs who became an icon of the Imperial Army. How could a cultural construct s…
Empire of Dogs
In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachikō. Each evening Hachikō greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya railway station. In May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine years the Akita waited at Shibuya Station, eventually becoming nationally and even internationally famous for his purported loyalty. A year before his death in 1935, the city of Tokyo erected a statue …
Breeding Racism
During the first half of the twentieth century, the Shepherd Dog came to be strongly identified with Imperial and Nazi Germany, as well as with many other masters in the colonial world. Through its transnational diffusion after World War I, the breed became a pervasive symbol of imperial aggression and racist exploitation. The 1930s Japanese empire subtly Japanized the dogs who became an icon of the Imperial Army. How could a cultural construct s…
Empire of Dogs
Through this provocative account, Skabelund demonstrates how animals generally and canines specifically have contributed to the creation of our shared history, and how certain dogs have subtly influenced how that history is told. Generously illustrated with both color and black-and-white images, Empire of Dogs shows that human-canine relations often expose how people-especially those with power and wealth-use animals to define, regulate, and enfo…
Animals and Imperialism
In the last decade or so, an increasing number of historians have written about the relationship between animals and imperialism. Their work builds on pioneering scholarship by environmental historian Alfred Crosby and cultural historians Harriet Ritvo and John MacKenzie, among others. Recent writing on animals and imperialism, influenced by wider trends in animal studies and history, has taken this topic in new directions. Namely, history writin…
Tigers—Real and Imagined—in Korea’s Physical and Cultural Landscape
Historically, people in Korea have valued tigers more as symbols than actual living beings. Premodern Koreans gave various cultural meanings to the tiger—including trickster, divine messenger, and protector. Yet violence characterized most actual encounters between tigers and humans. Various Korean dynasties, most significantly the Chosŏn (1392–1910), pursued wild tigers as threats and as sources of valuable fur. Human population growth, agricult…
Going to the Dogs
Journal Article Going to the Dogs: Greyhound Racing, Animal Activism, and American Popular Culture Get access Gwyneth Anne Thayer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. xvi, 296 pp. $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 641–642, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau393 Published: 01 September 2014
Living With the Nightmare of Planes and Aircraft Carriers at U.S. Bases in Japan
In recent years, the mayors of cities hosting American bases in Japan, and particularly in Okinawa, propelled by powerful citizen movements, have resisted American plans for base reorganization that would expand the US military presence in their communities. In many cases, powerful pressure from Tokyo, in the form of threats to cut off development aid to local communities, and offers to buy off local opposition, have succeeded in dividing local c…
Breeding Racism
During the first half of the twentieth century, the Shepherd Dog came to be strongly identified with Imperial and Nazi Germany, as well as with many other masters in the colonial world. Through its transnational diffusion after World War I, the breed became a pervasive symbol of imperial aggression and racist exploitation. The 1930s Japanese empire subtly Japanized the dogs who became an icon of the Imperial Army. How could a cultural construct s…
Fascism’s Furry Friends
Empire of Dogs
Through this provocative account, Skabelund demonstrates how animals generally and canines specifically have contributed to the creation of our shared history, and how certain dogs have subtly influenced how that history is told. Generously illustrated with both color and black-and-white images, Empire of Dogs shows that human-canine relations often expose how people-especially those with power and wealth-use animals to define, regulate, and enfo…
Empire of Dogs
In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachikō. Each evening Hachikō greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya railway station. In May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine years the Akita waited at Shibuya Station, eventually becoming nationally and even internationally famous for his purported loyalty. A year before his death in 1935, the city of Tokyo erected a statue …
Religion in the Military Worldwide
How does religion affect the lives of professional soldiers? How does religion shape militaries, their organization, procedures, and performance? This volume is the first to address these questions by comparing religious symbols and practices in nine countries: Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Israel, Iran, India, the United States, and Turkey. The contributors explore how and why soldiers pray, the role of religious rituals prior to …
Transpacific Field of Dreams
Animals and Imperialism
In the last decade or so, an increasing number of historians have written about the relationship between animals and imperialism. Their work builds on pioneering scholarship by environmental historian Alfred Crosby and cultural historians Harriet Ritvo and John MacKenzie, among others. Recent writing on animals and imperialism, influenced by wider trends in animal studies and history, has taken this topic in new directions. Namely, history writin…
Going to the Dogs
Journal Article Going to the Dogs: Greyhound Racing, Animal Activism, and American Popular Culture Get access Gwyneth Anne Thayer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. xvi, 296 pp. $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 641–642, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau393 Published: 01 September 2014
Tigers—Real and Imagined—in Korea’s Physical and Cultural Landscape
Historically, people in Korea have valued tigers more as symbols than actual living beings. Premodern Koreans gave various cultural meanings to the tiger—including trickster, divine messenger, and protector. Yet violence characterized most actual encounters between tigers and humans. Various Korean dynasties, most significantly the Chosŏn (1392–1910), pursued wild tigers as threats and as sources of valuable fur. Human population growth, agricult…
Bite, Bite against the Iron Cage
This article examines the zoological gardens established by Japanese imperialists in colonial Seoul (1908) and Taipei (1914). Drawing on multilingual sources, it argues that zoos explicitly exposed the unequal interethnic and interspecies hierarchies that undergirded the colonial project. The colonial zoo was an ambivalent "dreamscape": a carefully constructed landscape of iron cages and manicured pathways wherein colonizers' dreams of ordering t…
Inglorious, Illegal Bastards
In Inglorious, Illegal Bastards , Aaron Herald Skabelund examines how the Self-Defense Force (SDF), the post-World War II Japanese military, and specifically the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF), struggled for legitimacy in a society at best indifferent, and often hostile to its very existence. From the early iterations of the GDSF as the Police Reserve Force and the National Safety Force, through its establishment as the largest and most visible…
Defenders of Japan
Reviewed by: Defenders of Japan: The Post-Imperial Armed Forces, 1946–2016: A History by Garren Mulloy Aaron Skabelund (bio) Defenders of Japan: The Post-Imperial Armed Forces, 1946–2016: A History. By Garren Mulloy. Oxford University Press, 2021. xxvi, 416 pages. $45.00. In 2006, near the end of a three-year fellowship at one of Japan's national universities, I was asked to present my research on the Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF). I took the l…
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