Christine De Matos
Biographic Data
| ID | 315991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine De Matos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | De Matos |
| SIGNATURE | DE MATOS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Notre Dame Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7571-2182 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction: The Asia Pacific War Through Border-Crossing Mobilities
Human migration and mobilities in Europe during World War II are well documented, yet there remains work to be done on the Asia Pacific region, where there were also large numbers of displaced persons. Further, as transnational and transimperial research has shown, other forms of mobilities, such as ideas and knowledge, also need to be considered. This special issue on border-crossing mobilities in the Asia Pacific War aims to redress such omissi…
Nation Building in Japan, 1945–1952: The Allied Occupation and the US-Japan Alliance , by Peter K. Frost
Many books have been published on the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945–1952/72) over the last decades. These include John W. Dower’s (1999) award-winning Embracing Defeat, Eiji Takemae’s (2003) classic The Allied Occupation of Japan, and lesser-known texts like T.R. Sareen’s (2013) India and the Allied Occupation of Japan. The latest addition, Nation Building in Japan, is part of Routledge’s Studies in the Modern History of Asia series. The autho…
Introduction: Classicisms and Modern War in the Long Twentieth Century
Classical Mateship: A Transtemporal View of a National Ideal
Becoming the Occupier: Power Reversals in the Asia-Pacific War and in Australian-Occupied Japan
Visualising the Modern Housewife: US Occupier Women and the Home in the Allied Occupation of Germany, 1945–1949
Thousands of Allied women arrived in occupied Germany after the Second World War as the wives of military and civilian men working in the occupation apparatus. Yet rarely have these women been seen as active agents of occupier power and knowledge. One way of understanding their role, or how it was imagined, is through images and textual representations. With a focus on the early years of occupation (1945–1949) and visual representations of US wiv…
The Home as a Space of Re-Education: Imperialism, Military Occupation, and Housekeeping Manuals
While much is known about the imperial home and its place in the colonial hierarchy and 'civilizing project' , less is understood about the occupation household and its relationship to 're-education' .In the occupier home, the occupier wife managed domestic workers made up from the occupied, a role that performed the power and prestige of the occupier nation.But the occupier woman was also tasked with tutoring her staff in the preferred ways of h…
Unpacking coercion in gendered war labor
While in recent decades there have been growing bodies of literature on gender and war, on war and military labor, and on various forms and degrees of labor coercion, rarely have these areas – gender, coercion and war labor – been analyzed together as intersecting and interdependent themes. The special issue on Gender, War and Coerced Labor aims to fill this gap, and this introduction to the issue will not only present the five papers but also es…
Forgotten Forced Migrants of War: Civilian Internment of Japanese in British India, 1941–6
The Second World War saw extraordinary movements of people, before, during and afterwards. Civilian internees are rarely considered part of this, and especially not those in South and Southeast Asia. Between December 1941 and May 1946, nearly 2700 Japanese civilians and colonial subjects from across Japan’s empire were interned in camps in British India. Mainly residents of Singapore and Malaya, these civilians were arrested and transferred by sh…
Three Domestic Workers, Two Internment Camps and a War: A Journey from Singapore to British India
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 93, Part 1, No. 318, June 2020
Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied
Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied examines transwar political, military and social transitions in Japan and various territories that it controlled, including Korea, Borneo, Singapore, Manchuria a
Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan
The caricature of the ‘pan-pan’, or amateur female prostitute, complete with western-style fashions and garish makeup, has become an iconic symbol of Japan’s defeat in the Asia-Pacific War and subsequent Allied Occupation. Portrayed in a mostly negative light, she simultaneously represents the ostensible sexual excesses of female liberation, the most visible rendering of Japanese emasculation, and the sexual exploitation of women by Allied servic…
Diplomacy Interrupted: Macmahon Ball, Evatt and Labor's Policies in Occupied Japan
Historiography on the Australian political and diplomatic role in the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945–1952) gives disproportionate attention to the meetings between the Australian Minister for External Affairs, H.V. Evatt, and the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan (SCAP), General Douglas MacArthur, in Tokyo during 1947. These meetings are then linked to the subsequent resignation from the Allied Council for Japan (ACJ) of William …
The Allied Occupation of Japan - an Australian View
The Japanese Occupation is generally remembered as primarily an American affair and as a dichotomous relationship between Japan and the United States. However, it was an Allied Occupation, and, despite the persistence of selective historical memories, there was a distinct and at times contentious Allied presence, contribution, and experience. The Occupation provided a terrain on which the victor nations, believing their social, economic and polit…
Contesting the 'will of the people: Australia and constitutional reform in occupied Japan
While the role of the United States in the development of Japan's post-war constitution is well documented, less is known of the role of other Allied nations. This article seeks to narrate the role of Australia in this process, giving particular focus to the debate over provisions to provide an avenue for popular expression of approval of the constitution via referendum and/or a Diet review process. This process was approved as an official Far Ea…
Work, Organisation, Struggle
Information technology skills in the workplace: Implications for Bachelor of Arts degrees
Changing work practices have increased demands for information technology (IT) skills within non-IT professions. Many employers want experience in desktop publishing, spreadsheets, and Internet skills, in addition to the 'traditional' areas of file management, word processing and databases. The demand for these skills was evident in our survey of Bachelor of Arts graduates with a Computing Studies major. However, whether workplace needs are being…
Forgotten Forced Migrants of War: Civilian Internment of Japanese in British India, 1941–6
The Second World War saw extraordinary movements of people, before, during and afterwards. Civilian internees are rarely considered part of this, and especially not those in South and Southeast Asia. Between December 1941 and May 1946, nearly 2700 Japanese civilians and colonial subjects from across Japan’s empire were interned in camps in British India. Mainly residents of Singapore and Malaya, these civilians were arrested and transferred by sh…
Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan
The caricature of the ‘pan-pan’, or amateur female prostitute, complete with western-style fashions and garish makeup, has become an iconic symbol of Japan’s defeat in the Asia-Pacific War and subsequent Allied Occupation. Portrayed in a mostly negative light, she simultaneously represents the ostensible sexual excesses of female liberation, the most visible rendering of Japanese emasculation, and the sexual exploitation of women by Allied servic…
Information technology skills in the workplace: Implications for Bachelor of Arts degrees
Changing work practices have increased demands for information technology (IT) skills within non-IT professions. Many employers want experience in desktop publishing, spreadsheets, and Internet skills, in addition to the 'traditional' areas of file management, word processing and databases. The demand for these skills was evident in our survey of Bachelor of Arts graduates with a Computing Studies major. However, whether workplace needs are being…
Work, Organisation, Struggle
Contesting the 'will of the people: Australia and constitutional reform in occupied Japan
While the role of the United States in the development of Japan's post-war constitution is well documented, less is known of the role of other Allied nations. This article seeks to narrate the role of Australia in this process, giving particular focus to the debate over provisions to provide an avenue for popular expression of approval of the constitution via referendum and/or a Diet review process. This process was approved as an official Far Ea…
The Allied Occupation of Japan - an Australian View
The Japanese Occupation is generally remembered as primarily an American affair and as a dichotomous relationship between Japan and the United States. However, it was an Allied Occupation, and, despite the persistence of selective historical memories, there was a distinct and at times contentious Allied presence, contribution, and experience. The Occupation provided a terrain on which the victor nations, believing their social, economic and polit…
Diplomacy Interrupted: Macmahon Ball, Evatt and Labor's Policies in Occupied Japan
Historiography on the Australian political and diplomatic role in the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945–1952) gives disproportionate attention to the meetings between the Australian Minister for External Affairs, H.V. Evatt, and the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan (SCAP), General Douglas MacArthur, in Tokyo during 1947. These meetings are then linked to the subsequent resignation from the Allied Council for Japan (ACJ) of William …
Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan
The caricature of the ‘pan-pan’, or amateur female prostitute, complete with western-style fashions and garish makeup, has become an iconic symbol of Japan’s defeat in the Asia-Pacific War and subsequent Allied Occupation. Portrayed in a mostly negative light, she simultaneously represents the ostensible sexual excesses of female liberation, the most visible rendering of Japanese emasculation, and the sexual exploitation of women by Allied servic…
Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied
Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied examines transwar political, military and social transitions in Japan and various territories that it controlled, including Korea, Borneo, Singapore, Manchuria a
Three Domestic Workers, Two Internment Camps and a War: A Journey from Singapore to British India
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 93, Part 1, No. 318, June 2020
Forgotten Forced Migrants of War: Civilian Internment of Japanese in British India, 1941–6
The Second World War saw extraordinary movements of people, before, during and afterwards. Civilian internees are rarely considered part of this, and especially not those in South and Southeast Asia. Between December 1941 and May 1946, nearly 2700 Japanese civilians and colonial subjects from across Japan’s empire were interned in camps in British India. Mainly residents of Singapore and Malaya, these civilians were arrested and transferred by sh…
Unpacking coercion in gendered war labor
While in recent decades there have been growing bodies of literature on gender and war, on war and military labor, and on various forms and degrees of labor coercion, rarely have these areas – gender, coercion and war labor – been analyzed together as intersecting and interdependent themes. The special issue on Gender, War and Coerced Labor aims to fill this gap, and this introduction to the issue will not only present the five papers but also es…
Visualising the Modern Housewife: US Occupier Women and the Home in the Allied Occupation of Germany, 1945–1949
Thousands of Allied women arrived in occupied Germany after the Second World War as the wives of military and civilian men working in the occupation apparatus. Yet rarely have these women been seen as active agents of occupier power and knowledge. One way of understanding their role, or how it was imagined, is through images and textual representations. With a focus on the early years of occupation (1945–1949) and visual representations of US wiv…
The Home as a Space of Re-Education: Imperialism, Military Occupation, and Housekeeping Manuals
While much is known about the imperial home and its place in the colonial hierarchy and 'civilizing project' , less is understood about the occupation household and its relationship to 're-education' .In the occupier home, the occupier wife managed domestic workers made up from the occupied, a role that performed the power and prestige of the occupier nation.But the occupier woman was also tasked with tutoring her staff in the preferred ways of h…
Becoming the Occupier: Power Reversals in the Asia-Pacific War and in Australian-Occupied Japan
Introduction: The Asia Pacific War Through Border-Crossing Mobilities
Human migration and mobilities in Europe during World War II are well documented, yet there remains work to be done on the Asia Pacific region, where there were also large numbers of displaced persons. Further, as transnational and transimperial research has shown, other forms of mobilities, such as ideas and knowledge, also need to be considered. This special issue on border-crossing mobilities in the Asia Pacific War aims to redress such omissi…
Nation Building in Japan, 1945–1952: The Allied Occupation and the US-Japan Alliance , by Peter K. Frost
Many books have been published on the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945–1952/72) over the last decades. These include John W. Dower’s (1999) award-winning Embracing Defeat, Eiji Takemae’s (2003) classic The Allied Occupation of Japan, and lesser-known texts like T.R. Sareen’s (2013) India and the Allied Occupation of Japan. The latest addition, Nation Building in Japan, is part of Routledge’s Studies in the Modern History of Asia series. The autho…
Introduction: Classicisms and Modern War in the Long Twentieth Century
Classical Mateship: A Transtemporal View of a National Ideal
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (6 works) · Japanese History and Culture (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Spanish Civil War (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works)