Christopher T Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 879910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher T Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher T |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7892-8907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Joy of Noh
Reviewed by: The Joy of Noh: Embodied Learning and Discipline in Urban Japan by Katrina L. Moore Christopher T. Nelson (bio) The Joy of Noh: Embodied Learning and Discipline in Urban Japan. By Katrina L. Moore. SUNY Press, Albany, 2014. xvi, 124 pages. $70.00, cloth; $23.95, paper. In recent years, significant popular attention has been focused on the crisis of aging in Japan. As the overall Japanese population declines, the proportion of the eld…
The Domestic is Political, and the Political is Gendered
Against the Flow of Time
Dystopia is now
A series of intersecting trends now threatens fundamental changes in the character of higher education. The gradual replacement of full-time tenured faculty with part-time teachers is the bedrock change, but it simultaneously serves the political impulse to defund higher education and makes it easier to impose the corporate model of instrumental education devoted narrowly to skills acquisition and job training. Humanities education should resist …
Listening to the Bones
In the aftermath of the Battle of Okinawa, the American military turned its efforts toward fortifying its new strategic outpost in the Pacific. Okinawan survivors were left to rebuild their lives in the ruins of their farms and villages. The dead were buried deeply and quickly. Decades later, an urban development project unearthed the unremembered and perhaps unwanted remains of a legion of Imperial Japanese soldiers. This essay explores the coll…
Dances of Memory, Dances of Oblivion
As in Roberson's analysis of popular songs, Christopher T. Nelson shows how memories of war shape popular culture in Okinawa today-in Nelson's case in the context of community-based dance performances known as eisā. Today eisā is the most widespread and widely recognized community activity practiced in contemporary Okinawa. The Koza Riot that Nelson refers to occurred during the evening of December 20-21, 1970, in what was then a red light distri…
Occupation without End
In the aftermath of the Pacific War, the US military began an occupation of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa that continues to this day. Although formal sovereignty of the islands was returned to Japan in 1972, the physical and social space of Okinawa remains dominated by a massive network of US military installations. For decades, soldiers and Marines trained in the northern jungles for wars in places like Indochina, Iraq, and Afghanistan; the…
Genetic Crossing
Red Cloud
Huziki Hayato, the storyteller
(2001). Huziki Hayato, the storyteller: Comedy, practice and the politics of everyday life in Okinawa. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 189-209
Dystopia is now
A series of intersecting trends now threatens fundamental changes in the character of higher education. The gradual replacement of full-time tenured faculty with part-time teachers is the bedrock change, but it simultaneously serves the political impulse to defund higher education and makes it easier to impose the corporate model of instrumental education devoted narrowly to skills acquisition and job training. Humanities education should resist …
Listening to the Bones
In the aftermath of the Battle of Okinawa, the American military turned its efforts toward fortifying its new strategic outpost in the Pacific. Okinawan survivors were left to rebuild their lives in the ruins of their farms and villages. The dead were buried deeply and quickly. Decades later, an urban development project unearthed the unremembered and perhaps unwanted remains of a legion of Imperial Japanese soldiers. This essay explores the coll…
Occupation without End
In the aftermath of the Pacific War, the US military began an occupation of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa that continues to this day. Although formal sovereignty of the islands was returned to Japan in 1972, the physical and social space of Okinawa remains dominated by a massive network of US military installations. For decades, soldiers and Marines trained in the northern jungles for wars in places like Indochina, Iraq, and Afghanistan; the…
Huziki Hayato, the storyteller
(2001). Huziki Hayato, the storyteller: Comedy, practice and the politics of everyday life in Okinawa. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 189-209
Huziki Hayato, the storyteller
(2001). Huziki Hayato, the storyteller: Comedy, practice and the politics of everyday life in Okinawa. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 189-209
Red Cloud
Genetic Crossing
Occupation without End
In the aftermath of the Pacific War, the US military began an occupation of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa that continues to this day. Although formal sovereignty of the islands was returned to Japan in 1972, the physical and social space of Okinawa remains dominated by a massive network of US military installations. For decades, soldiers and Marines trained in the northern jungles for wars in places like Indochina, Iraq, and Afghanistan; the…
Dances of Memory, Dances of Oblivion
As in Roberson's analysis of popular songs, Christopher T. Nelson shows how memories of war shape popular culture in Okinawa today-in Nelson's case in the context of community-based dance performances known as eisā. Today eisā is the most widespread and widely recognized community activity practiced in contemporary Okinawa. The Koza Riot that Nelson refers to occurred during the evening of December 20-21, 1970, in what was then a red light distri…
The Domestic is Political, and the Political is Gendered
Against the Flow of Time
Dystopia is now
A series of intersecting trends now threatens fundamental changes in the character of higher education. The gradual replacement of full-time tenured faculty with part-time teachers is the bedrock change, but it simultaneously serves the political impulse to defund higher education and makes it easier to impose the corporate model of instrumental education devoted narrowly to skills acquisition and job training. Humanities education should resist …
Listening to the Bones
In the aftermath of the Battle of Okinawa, the American military turned its efforts toward fortifying its new strategic outpost in the Pacific. Okinawan survivors were left to rebuild their lives in the ruins of their farms and villages. The dead were buried deeply and quickly. Decades later, an urban development project unearthed the unremembered and perhaps unwanted remains of a legion of Imperial Japanese soldiers. This essay explores the coll…
The Joy of Noh
Reviewed by: The Joy of Noh: Embodied Learning and Discipline in Urban Japan by Katrina L. Moore Christopher T. Nelson (bio) The Joy of Noh: Embodied Learning and Discipline in Urban Japan. By Katrina L. Moore. SUNY Press, Albany, 2014. xvi, 124 pages. $70.00, cloth; $23.95, paper. In recent years, significant popular attention has been focused on the crisis of aging in Japan. As the overall Japanese population declines, the proportion of the eld…
History (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)