Gwyn Mcclelland
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 279197 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gwyn Mcclelland |
| NOMBRES | Gwyn |
| APELLIDO | Mcclelland |
| FIRMA | MCCLELLAND G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of New England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6914-2387 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Roman Catholicism and the History of Christianity in Modern Japan
This review article aims to provide an overview of the existing literature on Roman Catholicism in modern Japan post‐1873, focussing on works that address its societal impact. It orients readers in the historical context of Roman Catholic mission and social contributions to modern Japan. The scholarship indicates the conservative beginnings of the French mission in Japan, and the uneven development of the Church, fuelled by the ‘conversion’ of lo…
The Future of Hidden Christian Heritage as Hybrid
Scholars sometimes assume that the distance between the Hidden Christian so-called Kakure Kirishitan faith and Christianity in Japan has increased to make any reconciliation between the two inconceivable, but new research using a framework of ‘hybridity’ shows that this is not the case. This article is based on interviews conducted between 2020 and 2025 on the Gotō Islands, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The author focuses on a rapprochement evident…
Attending to the Subaltern Through Oral Histories of the NSW Tablelands
Dark heritage in contemporary Japan
Whether my Body Breaks or the Plum Tree Withers
Maria Iwanaga Maki (1849–1920) was 23 years old in 1873 when she returned home after a community exile and persecutions of more than 3000 people carried out by the Meiji government. Historians in the public record refer to Iwanaga as otoko‐masari (man‐nish) when she stood up to a representative of the Shogun, while in her public work she became known as the sister of the intersection. She was a social‐work pioneer, believed to have cared for upwa…
Aromas of Asia
Aromas of Asia
Do Ro hanga no tabi
Naoko Wake, American Survivors
Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki adds a new element to the transnational (cross-national) nature of the historiography of the atomic bombings, focusing on the hibakusha (atomic survivors) of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who later crossed the Pacific Ocean to the United States.This monograph, a "counter-memory of the bomb" (p. 2), draws upon 130 interviews with both Japanese American and Korean American survivors of the bombin…
Valuing the Urakami Cathedral after the atomic bombing
After the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the ruined Urakami Cathedral, situated prominently on a hilltop close to ground zero, became an iconic site. It represented the rupture experienced by a totally devastated community and landscape in an irradiated environment at the end of World War II. Yet, beginning in 1958, the ruins of the building were razed and the cathedral reconstructed – an act that has remained controversial in the Japanese publ…
Japanese Language Learning and Teaching During Covid-19
Before COVID-19, language learning was undergoing technology-driven change, including classroom delivery through blended learning and opportunities for autonomous learning through online affordances. The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated these trends, forcing educators and students to diversify into new forms of online teaching and learning. In this article we reflect on our experiences teaching Japanese language during the first year of the p…
From Pure Land to Hell
The islands in the Gotō region off Kyushu Island were refuges, mountains providing both terraces for growing potatoes and rice; and hideaways for clandestine religious practices; seas and bays providing fish and seaweed. Religious refugees arrived here in the 18th and 19th centuries, but had to contend with a harsh winter climate, the strong prejudices of indigenous inhabitants, and the long arms of the Nagasaki magistrate. This article locates a…
Nuclear Geographies and Nuclear Issues
Nuclear geographies and geographers contemplate the significance of nuclear technologies and issues for humans, nonhumans, and ecologies in the past, present, and future. This definition highlights how radiation interacts across different scales and mobilities by considering the significance of their relations to humans, nonhumans, ecologies, and materialities. The field brings together diverse geographical approaches to understand nuclear medici…
Foreign Missionaries and Indigenous Communities in Nineteenth Century
Catholics at Ground Zero
As atomic eyewitness memory passes on, and the hibakusha (atomic-bomb survivor) population dwindles, their trauma is increasingly communicated and negotiated by new generations. After the hibakusha, various protagonists are picking up the baton to continue telling the story of Nagasaki, some children of hibakusha and others not. More than seventy-five years after the bomb 'postmemory' describes the future of memory after the eyewitnesses are no l…
Urakami Memory and the Two Popes
Since 1945, official Catholic discourse around nuclear weapons has condemned their existence on the one hand and supported them as deterrents on the other. This paper argues the largely abstracted discourse on nuclear weapons within the World Church has been disrupted by voices of Urakami in Nagasaki since at least 1981, as the Vatican has re-considered both memory and Catholic treatments of the bombing of this city since the end of World War II.…
Faking Liberties
In Faking Liberties, Jolyon Thomas subjects a pervasive idea that in 1945 American religion brought freedom to a religious despot Japanese state to careful critique. During an intense period of teaching both Japanese and religious studies during his Ph.D. tenure, Thomas explains that he began to engage in the discourse of religious freedom in Japan. Arriving to live in Japan in the post-2001 global environment in which religious movements and rel…
Silences
Almost 75 years since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the Catholic and the nearby burakumin (an ostracised community of “untouchables”) experiences of the bombing have been little reported. This article draws on recent oral history interviews and new sources to reveal important evidence about the shared experiences of these two communities. In particular, we focus on these collective silences and their location where the impact of the bomb was mo…
Echoes of the Past on the Atomic Field
The material introduced here is a re-working of a chapter from my monograph, Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives, Routledge (2019), which discusses the symbolism around water and a 'cry for water' in the aftermath of the atomic bombing. Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki is a collective biography of twelve survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, including nine Catholic survivors in which I employ a 'politi…
Remembering the Ruins of the Urakami Cathedral
When Urakami Cathedral was rebuilt in 1959, many citizens experienced the loss of the ruins as a silencing of Nagasaki’s experience. This paper explores Catholic survivors’ attitudes towards the Cathedral and loss of an important atomic relic, and shows that while they regret the ruins’ disappearance, they also recognise the rebuilt Cathedral as a symbol of survival. In addition, by examining individual and collective narrative and photographic i…
Nagasaki
In Nagasaki: Life after Nuclear War, Susan Southard, a Master of Fine Arts in journalism, has written a chronological treatment of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki as a non-paradigmatic event. Nagasaki composes a narrative derived mainly from interviews completed by Southard with five survivors of the bombing. Southard’s quest is to make this story known in the United States, in order to correct a skewed narrative. Southard describes her methodolog…
Guilt, Persecution, and Resurrection in Nagasaki
Nagasaki was the second city to experience a nuclear attack at the end of World War II, 70 years ago. As we approach this anniversary, two writings suggest the razing of the atomic ruins of Urakami Cathedral in 1959 have constituted a central reason for the relative silence of Nagasaki in comparison to Hiroshima, calling the loss of the ruins a defeat and a reason for an inability of Nagasaki to make history. The memory of the loss of this ‘Bomb …
Strange Modernity
Strange Modernity Keith McClelland (bio) In Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern, James Vernon wants to ask big questions about modern British history and about the advent of the modern world more generally. For this reason alone it is worth paying attention to. If he does not put in place a new grand narrative about Britain, he at least wants to provoke us into thinking about what is distinctive about the shape and flow of its history. I…
Cultural Studies
The following Cultural Studies program has been working at A.T.E.C., Batchelor, for two years. The initial fears (how are you going to teach Aboriginals about their own culture? etc.) have been laid to rest and the course entered its second year in a very strong position with a lot of support coming from students. The structural components of the course come from three areas: Paulo Friere’s Education for Critical Consciousness , Beattie’s Other C…
Oral History and Australian Generations
Especially helpful for Australian historians and oral historians, this book introduces the resources of the Australian Generations Oral History Project, funded by an Australian Research Council Lin
Japanese Language Learning and Teaching During Covid-19
Before COVID-19, language learning was undergoing technology-driven change, including classroom delivery through blended learning and opportunities for autonomous learning through online affordances. The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated these trends, forcing educators and students to diversify into new forms of online teaching and learning. In this article we reflect on our experiences teaching Japanese language during the first year of the p…
Valuing the Urakami Cathedral after the atomic bombing
After the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the ruined Urakami Cathedral, situated prominently on a hilltop close to ground zero, became an iconic site. It represented the rupture experienced by a totally devastated community and landscape in an irradiated environment at the end of World War II. Yet, beginning in 1958, the ruins of the building were razed and the cathedral reconstructed – an act that has remained controversial in the Japanese publ…
From Pure Land to Hell
The islands in the Gotō region off Kyushu Island were refuges, mountains providing both terraces for growing potatoes and rice; and hideaways for clandestine religious practices; seas and bays providing fish and seaweed. Religious refugees arrived here in the 18th and 19th centuries, but had to contend with a harsh winter climate, the strong prejudices of indigenous inhabitants, and the long arms of the Nagasaki magistrate. This article locates a…
Silences
Almost 75 years since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the Catholic and the nearby burakumin (an ostracised community of “untouchables”) experiences of the bombing have been little reported. This article draws on recent oral history interviews and new sources to reveal important evidence about the shared experiences of these two communities. In particular, we focus on these collective silences and their location where the impact of the bomb was mo…
Nagasaki
In Nagasaki: Life after Nuclear War, Susan Southard, a Master of Fine Arts in journalism, has written a chronological treatment of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki as a non-paradigmatic event. Nagasaki composes a narrative derived mainly from interviews completed by Southard with five survivors of the bombing. Southard’s quest is to make this story known in the United States, in order to correct a skewed narrative. Southard describes her methodolog…
Cultural Studies
The following Cultural Studies program has been working at A.T.E.C., Batchelor, for two years. The initial fears (how are you going to teach Aboriginals about their own culture? etc.) have been laid to rest and the course entered its second year in a very strong position with a lot of support coming from students. The structural components of the course come from three areas: Paulo Friere’s Education for Critical Consciousness , Beattie’s Other C…
Guilt, Persecution, and Resurrection in Nagasaki
Nagasaki was the second city to experience a nuclear attack at the end of World War II, 70 years ago. As we approach this anniversary, two writings suggest the razing of the atomic ruins of Urakami Cathedral in 1959 have constituted a central reason for the relative silence of Nagasaki in comparison to Hiroshima, calling the loss of the ruins a defeat and a reason for an inability of Nagasaki to make history. The memory of the loss of this ‘Bomb …
Strange Modernity
Strange Modernity Keith McClelland (bio) In Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern, James Vernon wants to ask big questions about modern British history and about the advent of the modern world more generally. For this reason alone it is worth paying attention to. If he does not put in place a new grand narrative about Britain, he at least wants to provoke us into thinking about what is distinctive about the shape and flow of its history. I…
Remembering the Ruins of the Urakami Cathedral
When Urakami Cathedral was rebuilt in 1959, many citizens experienced the loss of the ruins as a silencing of Nagasaki’s experience. This paper explores Catholic survivors’ attitudes towards the Cathedral and loss of an important atomic relic, and shows that while they regret the ruins’ disappearance, they also recognise the rebuilt Cathedral as a symbol of survival. In addition, by examining individual and collective narrative and photographic i…
Nagasaki
In Nagasaki: Life after Nuclear War, Susan Southard, a Master of Fine Arts in journalism, has written a chronological treatment of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki as a non-paradigmatic event. Nagasaki composes a narrative derived mainly from interviews completed by Southard with five survivors of the bombing. Southard’s quest is to make this story known in the United States, in order to correct a skewed narrative. Southard describes her methodolog…
Silences
Almost 75 years since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the Catholic and the nearby burakumin (an ostracised community of “untouchables”) experiences of the bombing have been little reported. This article draws on recent oral history interviews and new sources to reveal important evidence about the shared experiences of these two communities. In particular, we focus on these collective silences and their location where the impact of the bomb was mo…
Echoes of the Past on the Atomic Field
The material introduced here is a re-working of a chapter from my monograph, Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives, Routledge (2019), which discusses the symbolism around water and a 'cry for water' in the aftermath of the atomic bombing. Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki is a collective biography of twelve survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, including nine Catholic survivors in which I employ a 'politi…
Faking Liberties
In Faking Liberties, Jolyon Thomas subjects a pervasive idea that in 1945 American religion brought freedom to a religious despot Japanese state to careful critique. During an intense period of teaching both Japanese and religious studies during his Ph.D. tenure, Thomas explains that he began to engage in the discourse of religious freedom in Japan. Arriving to live in Japan in the post-2001 global environment in which religious movements and rel…
Nuclear Geographies and Nuclear Issues
Nuclear geographies and geographers contemplate the significance of nuclear technologies and issues for humans, nonhumans, and ecologies in the past, present, and future. This definition highlights how radiation interacts across different scales and mobilities by considering the significance of their relations to humans, nonhumans, ecologies, and materialities. The field brings together diverse geographical approaches to understand nuclear medici…
Foreign Missionaries and Indigenous Communities in Nineteenth Century
Catholics at Ground Zero
As atomic eyewitness memory passes on, and the hibakusha (atomic-bomb survivor) population dwindles, their trauma is increasingly communicated and negotiated by new generations. After the hibakusha, various protagonists are picking up the baton to continue telling the story of Nagasaki, some children of hibakusha and others not. More than seventy-five years after the bomb 'postmemory' describes the future of memory after the eyewitnesses are no l…
Urakami Memory and the Two Popes
Since 1945, official Catholic discourse around nuclear weapons has condemned their existence on the one hand and supported them as deterrents on the other. This paper argues the largely abstracted discourse on nuclear weapons within the World Church has been disrupted by voices of Urakami in Nagasaki since at least 1981, as the Vatican has re-considered both memory and Catholic treatments of the bombing of this city since the end of World War II.…
Japanese Language Learning and Teaching During Covid-19
Before COVID-19, language learning was undergoing technology-driven change, including classroom delivery through blended learning and opportunities for autonomous learning through online affordances. The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated these trends, forcing educators and students to diversify into new forms of online teaching and learning. In this article we reflect on our experiences teaching Japanese language during the first year of the p…
From Pure Land to Hell
The islands in the Gotō region off Kyushu Island were refuges, mountains providing both terraces for growing potatoes and rice; and hideaways for clandestine religious practices; seas and bays providing fish and seaweed. Religious refugees arrived here in the 18th and 19th centuries, but had to contend with a harsh winter climate, the strong prejudices of indigenous inhabitants, and the long arms of the Nagasaki magistrate. This article locates a…
Aromas of Asia
Aromas of Asia
Do Ro hanga no tabi
Naoko Wake, American Survivors
Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki adds a new element to the transnational (cross-national) nature of the historiography of the atomic bombings, focusing on the hibakusha (atomic survivors) of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who later crossed the Pacific Ocean to the United States.This monograph, a "counter-memory of the bomb" (p. 2), draws upon 130 interviews with both Japanese American and Korean American survivors of the bombin…
Valuing the Urakami Cathedral after the atomic bombing
After the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the ruined Urakami Cathedral, situated prominently on a hilltop close to ground zero, became an iconic site. It represented the rupture experienced by a totally devastated community and landscape in an irradiated environment at the end of World War II. Yet, beginning in 1958, the ruins of the building were razed and the cathedral reconstructed – an act that has remained controversial in the Japanese publ…
Oral History and Australian Generations
Especially helpful for Australian historians and oral historians, this book introduces the resources of the Australian Generations Oral History Project, funded by an Australian Research Council Lin
Roman Catholicism and the History of Christianity in Modern Japan
This review article aims to provide an overview of the existing literature on Roman Catholicism in modern Japan post‐1873, focussing on works that address its societal impact. It orients readers in the historical context of Roman Catholic mission and social contributions to modern Japan. The scholarship indicates the conservative beginnings of the French mission in Japan, and the uneven development of the Church, fuelled by the ‘conversion’ of lo…
The Future of Hidden Christian Heritage as Hybrid
Scholars sometimes assume that the distance between the Hidden Christian so-called Kakure Kirishitan faith and Christianity in Japan has increased to make any reconciliation between the two inconceivable, but new research using a framework of ‘hybridity’ shows that this is not the case. This article is based on interviews conducted between 2020 and 2025 on the Gotō Islands, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The author focuses on a rapprochement evident…
Attending to the Subaltern Through Oral Histories of the NSW Tablelands
Dark heritage in contemporary Japan
Whether my Body Breaks or the Plum Tree Withers
Maria Iwanaga Maki (1849–1920) was 23 years old in 1873 when she returned home after a community exile and persecutions of more than 3000 people carried out by the Meiji government. Historians in the public record refer to Iwanaga as otoko‐masari (man‐nish) when she stood up to a representative of the Shogun, while in her public work she became known as the sister of the intersection. She was a social‐work pioneer, believed to have cared for upwa…
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