Koji Lau-Ozawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3783005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Koji Lau-Ozawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Koji |
| FAMILY NAME | Lau-Ozawa |
| SIGNATURE | LAU-OZAWA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transporting the Past
Diaspora on the block
We reconceptualize interpretations of life in multiethnic urban neighborhoods. • Uses archaeological collections from Santa Barbara’s historic Japantown. • Draws on zooarchaeological analysis of animal bone from two deposits. • Results show that neighborhoods rather than households are a useful scale of study. The archaeology of diaspora has grown in many directions during the first two decades of the 21st century. It has become a key way of unde…
Charting the Emerging Field of Japanese Diaspora Archaeology
This book examines the Japanese diaspora from the historical archaeology perspective, drawing from archaeological data, archival research and oral history.
Conglomerate infrastructures
Largescale programs require complex and integrated infrastructures to carry out the aims of power. In the case of the WWII mass removal and incarceration of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast of the US, scholars have focused their attention on incarceration camps and landscapes far removed from towns and cities. This article instead examines the wartime civil control stations which were erected for several weeks to several months in …
Inscriptions and Silences
Critical Mass
Dissonant memories of Japanese American incarceration
Memories of the Japanese American Incarceration Camps during WWII vary widely across America. For some, memories of the incarceration are a focal point of their identity and a driver of political action. Others who underwent this imprisonment choose not to recall their experiences. Incarceration can haunt their descendants as an ever-present but silenced past. Broadly, the United States’ relationship to this past is fractured. Activists invoke th…
Dissonant memories of Japanese American incarceration
Memories of the Japanese American Incarceration Camps during WWII vary widely across America. For some, memories of the incarceration are a focal point of their identity and a driver of political action. Others who underwent this imprisonment choose not to recall their experiences. Incarceration can haunt their descendants as an ever-present but silenced past. Broadly, the United States’ relationship to this past is fractured. Activists invoke th…
Conglomerate infrastructures
Largescale programs require complex and integrated infrastructures to carry out the aims of power. In the case of the WWII mass removal and incarceration of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast of the US, scholars have focused their attention on incarceration camps and landscapes far removed from towns and cities. This article instead examines the wartime civil control stations which were erected for several weeks to several months in …
Critical Mass
Inscriptions and Silences
Diaspora on the block
We reconceptualize interpretations of life in multiethnic urban neighborhoods. • Uses archaeological collections from Santa Barbara’s historic Japantown. • Draws on zooarchaeological analysis of animal bone from two deposits. • Results show that neighborhoods rather than households are a useful scale of study. The archaeology of diaspora has grown in many directions during the first two decades of the 21st century. It has become a key way of unde…
Dissonant memories of Japanese American incarceration
Memories of the Japanese American Incarceration Camps during WWII vary widely across America. For some, memories of the incarceration are a focal point of their identity and a driver of political action. Others who underwent this imprisonment choose not to recall their experiences. Incarceration can haunt their descendants as an ever-present but silenced past. Broadly, the United States’ relationship to this past is fractured. Activists invoke th…
Inscriptions and Silences
Critical Mass
Conglomerate infrastructures
Largescale programs require complex and integrated infrastructures to carry out the aims of power. In the case of the WWII mass removal and incarceration of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast of the US, scholars have focused their attention on incarceration camps and landscapes far removed from towns and cities. This article instead examines the wartime civil control stations which were erected for several weeks to several months in …
Charting the Emerging Field of Japanese Diaspora Archaeology
This book examines the Japanese diaspora from the historical archaeology perspective, drawing from archaeological data, archival research and oral history.
Transporting the Past
Diaspora on the block
We reconceptualize interpretations of life in multiethnic urban neighborhoods. • Uses archaeological collections from Santa Barbara’s historic Japantown. • Draws on zooarchaeological analysis of animal bone from two deposits. • Results show that neighborhoods rather than households are a useful scale of study. The archaeology of diaspora has grown in many directions during the first two decades of the 21st century. It has become a key way of unde…
History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Diaspora (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · Political science (4 works)