Tom Gill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Gill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Gill |
| SIGNATURE | GILL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Meiji Gakuin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4375-5054 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Impact of conflict on sustainable agricultural practices and transitions in Cambodia
Cambodian social and economic systems are in an era of transformation as the nation transitions from its history of war and tragedy into a future shaped by more democratic institutions and free market policies. During the 1970s, under the Khmer Rouge, the people of Cambodia were forced to live communally and survive through collective agriculture. Starvation, hard labor, knowledge destruction, and summary execution resulted in a nation facing hig…
A spatial analysis of feed conversion ratio: A case study of broiler chickens in Musanze District, Northern Rwanda
The poultry production model is an efficiently intensified small-scale production model. One of the best ways to measure the efficiency of poultry production is the feed conversion ratio (FCR). This study investigated factors that influence the FCR while considering spatial autocorrelations. A random sample of 320 broiler chicken farmers in Musanze district, northern Rwanda was collected and the Spatial Error Model (SEM) was used for analysis. Re…
The Nativist Backlash: Exploring the Roots of the Action Conservative Movement
After decades of decline, the sudden emergence from about 2006 of a new style of hard-right organization has greatly changed the landscape of rightist politics in Japan. In Japan, this is referred to as the Action Conservative Movement (ACM), or Kōdō Hoshu Undō. ACM groups have a strong nativist streak, and are known for their use of hate speech against foreigners in general and Koreans in particular. This paper, the first in a collection of four…
Better Must Come: Exiting Homelessness in Two Global Cities , by Matthew Marr
This is a thoroughly-researched, thoughtful study of homelessness in two major metropolises – Los Angeles and Tokyo. The author has spent the better part of two decades pursuing field studies in th
Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan
This book, based on gutsy fieldwork and an intense engagement with the Japanese and English-language literature, takes on one of the most complex issues in contemporary Japanese society: the question of how to define the people referred to as Burakumin. A textbook definition typically describes them as the discriminated descendants of two groups of Edo era outcastes: Eta , who were workers in stigmatized occupations mostly related to the taking o…
If you study, the last thing you want to be is working under the sun: ” An Analysis of Perceptions of Agricultural Education and Occupations in Four Countries
Japan Copes with Calamity
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer called Kimitsu, from his wartime childhood in the southern island of Kyushu through a brief military career to a lifetime spent working on the docks and construction sites of Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama. Kimitsu emerges as a unique voice from the Japanese ghetto, a self-educated philosopher whose though…
Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities by Romit Dasgupta (review)
Reviewed by: Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities by Romit Dasgupta Tom Gill (bio) Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities. By Romit Dasgupta. Routledge, London, 2012. xiii, 204 pages. $140.00, cloth; $54.95, paper. Back in 1998, Romit Dasgupta set out to investigate the masculine identities of salarymen from a couple of companies in northern Japan. Fifteen years later he has parlayed that material into this…
Why is socially‐just climate change adaptation in sub‐Saharan Africa so challenging? A review of barriers identified from empirical cases
To enhance understanding of the process of climate change adaptation and to facilitate the planning and implementation of socially‐just adaptation strategies, deeper consideration of the factors that impede adaptation is required. In response, scholars have increasingly identified barriers to adaptation in the literature. But, despite this progress, knowledge of barriers that hamper adaptation in developing countries remains limited, especially i…
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Life of a Japanese Day Laborer
The first time I met Nishikawa Kimitsu was on October 20, 1993, at 6 o'clock in the morning in front of the casual labor exchange in Kotobuki, the notorious Yokohama slum district. He was struggling to get a day's work on a building site in Yokohama. When I told him I was doing fieldwork for a doctorate in social anthropology, he immediately asked me if I was a Malinowskian functionalist or a Levi-Straussian structuralist. He had a copy of Levi-S…
Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery
New Lives: Some Case Studies of Minamata
Earlier in 2014, folklore scholar Ron Morse succeeded in publishing on-line The Adventure of Ideas: A Collection of papers on Patterns of Creativity and a Theory of Endogenous Development, a collection of English-language papers by Tsurumi Kazuko* (1918-2006), an innovative sociologist who was a professor at Sophia University for twenty years (1969-89
Japan Copes with Calamity: Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011
Contents: Tom Gill/Brigitte Steger/David H. Slater: The 3.11 Disasters - David H. Slater: Urgent Ethnography - Brigitte Steger: Solidarity and Distinction through Practices of Cleanliness in Tsunami Evacuation Shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture - Nathan J. Peterson: Adapting Religious Practice in Response to Disaster in Iwate Prefecture - Johannes Wilhelm/Alyne Delaney: No Homes, No Boats, No Rafts: Miyagi Coastal People in the Aftermath of Dis…
Those Restless Little Boats: On the Uneasiness of Japanese Power-Boat Gambling
Gambling fascinates, because it is a dramatized model of life. As people make their way through life, they have to make countless decisions, big and small, life-changing and trivial. In gambling, those decisions are reduced to a single type - an attempt to predict the outcome of an event. Real-life decisions often have no clear outcome; few that can clearly be called right or wrong, many that fall in the grey zone where the outcome is unclear, un…
The Rage of Exile: In the Wake of Fukushima
Translator's foreword: For the last two and a half years, I have been studying the inhabitants of Nagadoro, one of the twenty small hamlets in Iitate village, which has been evacuated and barricaded due to particularly high levels of radiation. Present government policy is to maintain the status of Nagadoro as a no-go zone for at least another four years. Among the 250 inhabitants is Shoji Masahiko, who until the nuclear disaster supported his wi…
The Incident at Nishibeta Village: A Classic Manga by Tsuge Yoshiharu from the Garo Years
Yoshiharu Tsuge is arguably Japan's premier eccentric manga artist... he has probably had more written about him than he has himself created." (Schodt 1996: 200).Can there be any other manga artist who has been so lavishly praised in the English language and yet been so little read or understood? To date only three short comics by Tsuge Yoshiharu have been translated into English (Tsuge 1985, 1990, 2003a), a few more into French (Tsuge 2004), and…
Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan: The Meanings of Self-Reliance for Homeless Men
The two questions Japanese people most often ask about the homeless people they see around them are "Why are there any homeless people here in Japan?" and "Why are they nearly all men?" Answering those two simple questions will, I believe, lead us in fruitful directions for understanding both homelessness and masculinity in contemporary Japan.The first question is not quite as naive as it might sound. After all, article twenty-five of Japan's con…
Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (review)
Reviewed by: Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan Tom Gill (bio) Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan. By David R. Ambaras. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2005. xii, 297 pages. $49.95. As a nonhistorian working on contemporary Japanese social problems, I welcome this work on state responses to wayward youth in the period from 1895 to 1945 particul…
Juvenile Delinquency in Japan: Reconsidering the "Crisis" (review)
Reviewed by: Juvenile Delinquency in Japan: Reconsidering the "Crisis." Tom Gill (bio) Juvenile Delinquency in Japan: Reconsidering the "Crisis." Edited by Gesine Foljanty-Jost. Brill, Leiden, 2003. x, 275 pages. €71.00. This is a collection of essays by 14 scholars addressing various aspects of juvenile delinquency in Japan. The contributors are mostly quantitative sociologists and liberal educationalists, and though interesting in places, the c…
Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan
Japan is a country strongly associated with strong, long-term relationships, whether they be located within kin- groups, local communities or large industrial enterprises. Yet Japan also has a long tradition of people who have been excluded from these relationships, whether voluntarily (hermits, mendicant monks, etc.) or compulsorily (outcasts etc.). This thesis deals with a contemporary category of people who operate largely outside the certaint…
Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan
Lives of Young Koreans in Japan
Multiethnic Japan
Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan
Lives of Young Koreans in Japan
If you study, the last thing you want to be is working under the sun: ” An Analysis of Perceptions of Agricultural Education and Occupations in Four Countries
Impact of conflict on sustainable agricultural practices and transitions in Cambodia
Cambodian social and economic systems are in an era of transformation as the nation transitions from its history of war and tragedy into a future shaped by more democratic institutions and free market policies. During the 1970s, under the Khmer Rouge, the people of Cambodia were forced to live communally and survive through collective agriculture. Starvation, hard labor, knowledge destruction, and summary execution resulted in a nation facing hig…
Multiethnic Japan
Packaged Japaneseness: Weddings, Business and Brides
Forests and Mankind
Tropical Forests
The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures
Dolores Martinez heads an international team of scholars in this lively discussion of Japanese popular culture. The book's contributors include Japanese as well as British, Icelandic and North American writers, offering a diversity of views of what Japanese popular culture is, and how it is best approached and understood. They bring an anthropological perspective to a broad range of topics, including sumo, karaoke, manga, vampires, women's magazi…
Packaged Japaneseness: Weddings, Business and Brides
San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo
Lives of Young Koreans in Japan
Multiethnic Japan
Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan
Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan
Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan
Japan is a country strongly associated with strong, long-term relationships, whether they be located within kin- groups, local communities or large industrial enterprises. Yet Japan also has a long tradition of people who have been excluded from these relationships, whether voluntarily (hermits, mendicant monks, etc.) or compulsorily (outcasts etc.). This thesis deals with a contemporary category of people who operate largely outside the certaint…
Juvenile Delinquency in Japan: Reconsidering the "Crisis" (review)
Reviewed by: Juvenile Delinquency in Japan: Reconsidering the "Crisis." Tom Gill (bio) Juvenile Delinquency in Japan: Reconsidering the "Crisis." Edited by Gesine Foljanty-Jost. Brill, Leiden, 2003. x, 275 pages. €71.00. This is a collection of essays by 14 scholars addressing various aspects of juvenile delinquency in Japan. The contributors are mostly quantitative sociologists and liberal educationalists, and though interesting in places, the c…
Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (review)
Reviewed by: Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan Tom Gill (bio) Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan. By David R. Ambaras. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2005. xii, 297 pages. $49.95. As a nonhistorian working on contemporary Japanese social problems, I welcome this work on state responses to wayward youth in the period from 1895 to 1945 particul…
Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan: The Meanings of Self-Reliance for Homeless Men
The two questions Japanese people most often ask about the homeless people they see around them are "Why are there any homeless people here in Japan?" and "Why are they nearly all men?" Answering those two simple questions will, I believe, lead us in fruitful directions for understanding both homelessness and masculinity in contemporary Japan.The first question is not quite as naive as it might sound. After all, article twenty-five of Japan's con…
The Incident at Nishibeta Village: A Classic Manga by Tsuge Yoshiharu from the Garo Years
Yoshiharu Tsuge is arguably Japan's premier eccentric manga artist... he has probably had more written about him than he has himself created." (Schodt 1996: 200).Can there be any other manga artist who has been so lavishly praised in the English language and yet been so little read or understood? To date only three short comics by Tsuge Yoshiharu have been translated into English (Tsuge 1985, 1990, 2003a), a few more into French (Tsuge 2004), and…
Japan Copes with Calamity: Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011
Contents: Tom Gill/Brigitte Steger/David H. Slater: The 3.11 Disasters - David H. Slater: Urgent Ethnography - Brigitte Steger: Solidarity and Distinction through Practices of Cleanliness in Tsunami Evacuation Shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture - Nathan J. Peterson: Adapting Religious Practice in Response to Disaster in Iwate Prefecture - Johannes Wilhelm/Alyne Delaney: No Homes, No Boats, No Rafts: Miyagi Coastal People in the Aftermath of Dis…
Those Restless Little Boats: On the Uneasiness of Japanese Power-Boat Gambling
Gambling fascinates, because it is a dramatized model of life. As people make their way through life, they have to make countless decisions, big and small, life-changing and trivial. In gambling, those decisions are reduced to a single type - an attempt to predict the outcome of an event. Real-life decisions often have no clear outcome; few that can clearly be called right or wrong, many that fall in the grey zone where the outcome is unclear, un…
The Rage of Exile: In the Wake of Fukushima
Translator's foreword: For the last two and a half years, I have been studying the inhabitants of Nagadoro, one of the twenty small hamlets in Iitate village, which has been evacuated and barricaded due to particularly high levels of radiation. Present government policy is to maintain the status of Nagadoro as a no-go zone for at least another four years. Among the 250 inhabitants is Shoji Masahiko, who until the nuclear disaster supported his wi…
Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery
New Lives: Some Case Studies of Minamata
Earlier in 2014, folklore scholar Ron Morse succeeded in publishing on-line The Adventure of Ideas: A Collection of papers on Patterns of Creativity and a Theory of Endogenous Development, a collection of English-language papers by Tsurumi Kazuko* (1918-2006), an innovative sociologist who was a professor at Sophia University for twenty years (1969-89
Japan Copes with Calamity
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer called Kimitsu, from his wartime childhood in the southern island of Kyushu through a brief military career to a lifetime spent working on the docks and construction sites of Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama. Kimitsu emerges as a unique voice from the Japanese ghetto, a self-educated philosopher whose though…
Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities by Romit Dasgupta (review)
Reviewed by: Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities by Romit Dasgupta Tom Gill (bio) Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities. By Romit Dasgupta. Routledge, London, 2012. xiii, 204 pages. $140.00, cloth; $54.95, paper. Back in 1998, Romit Dasgupta set out to investigate the masculine identities of salarymen from a couple of companies in northern Japan. Fifteen years later he has parlayed that material into this…
Why is socially‐just climate change adaptation in sub‐Saharan Africa so challenging? A review of barriers identified from empirical cases
To enhance understanding of the process of climate change adaptation and to facilitate the planning and implementation of socially‐just adaptation strategies, deeper consideration of the factors that impede adaptation is required. In response, scholars have increasingly identified barriers to adaptation in the literature. But, despite this progress, knowledge of barriers that hamper adaptation in developing countries remains limited, especially i…
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Life of a Japanese Day Laborer
The first time I met Nishikawa Kimitsu was on October 20, 1993, at 6 o'clock in the morning in front of the casual labor exchange in Kotobuki, the notorious Yokohama slum district. He was struggling to get a day's work on a building site in Yokohama. When I told him I was doing fieldwork for a doctorate in social anthropology, he immediately asked me if I was a Malinowskian functionalist or a Levi-Straussian structuralist. He had a copy of Levi-S…
Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan
This book, based on gutsy fieldwork and an intense engagement with the Japanese and English-language literature, takes on one of the most complex issues in contemporary Japanese society: the question of how to define the people referred to as Burakumin. A textbook definition typically describes them as the discriminated descendants of two groups of Edo era outcastes: Eta , who were workers in stigmatized occupations mostly related to the taking o…
Political science (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Japanese History and Culture (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · History (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 works) · Politics (5 works)