Masaaki Morishita
Biographic Data
| ID | 959207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Masaaki Morishita |
| GIVEN NAMES | Masaaki |
| FAMILY NAME | Morishita |
| SIGNATURE | MORISHITA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7648-4553 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The history of Nagasaki, the Japanese birthplace of Western medicine and its education
Over the past several centuries, Western medical knowledge and practices have circulated globally through colonial, missionary, and educational networks. Contemporary trends toward standardization continue to shape medical education worldwide, often reinforcing asymmetric power relations between the Global North and South. Although dominant models have frequently marginalized local knowledge and traditions, medical education has also involved pro…
Exploring Japanese Medical Students' mental distress and wellbeing challenges
Books
Book Review Essays Sustaining the Past into the Future: Some Reflections on Mechanisms to Keep Heritage Meaningful and Sustainable Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability: Between Past and Future. Elizabeth Auclair and Graham Fairclough, eds. London: Routledge, 2015. Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage, Mia Ridge, ed. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014. Museums, Power, Knowledge: Selected Essays. Tony Bennett. London: Routledge, 2018. Book Rev…
Exhibition Review Essays and Exhibition Reviews
Exhibition Review Essays and Exhibition Reviews
Exhibition Review Essays and Exhibition Reviews
The Empty Museum
This book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century and how they subsequently developed distinctive national characteristics. The author focuses on one of the most distinctive forms of Japanese museums: the 'empty museums' - museums without collections, permanent displays, or curators
Struggles between curators and artists
This paper, which takes the form of a case study, focuses on the conflictual relations between two particular agents, the curator and the local artist, which became prevalent in public art museums in Japan from the 1970s. These two agents had affinities to different sets of culture, and their conflict was intensified over the use of regional museums. I discuss the most controversial example of such conflicts, which took place at the Tochigi Prefe…
The iemoto System and the Avant-Gardes in the Japanese Artistic Field
The conceptual framework of 'field' proposed by Pierre Bourdieu and his model of the literary and artistic fields in nineteenth-century France are widely applied to studies of the development of the literary and artistic fields in other regions and the fields of other cultural practices. These researches, while showing similarities to Bourdieu's model, reveal the distinct forms of nomos which those different fields developed through localised con…
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The iemoto System and the Avant-Gardes in the Japanese Artistic Field
The conceptual framework of 'field' proposed by Pierre Bourdieu and his model of the literary and artistic fields in nineteenth-century France are widely applied to studies of the development of the literary and artistic fields in other regions and the fields of other cultural practices. These researches, while showing similarities to Bourdieu's model, reveal the distinct forms of nomos which those different fields developed through localised con…
Struggles between curators and artists
This paper, which takes the form of a case study, focuses on the conflictual relations between two particular agents, the curator and the local artist, which became prevalent in public art museums in Japan from the 1970s. These two agents had affinities to different sets of culture, and their conflict was intensified over the use of regional museums. I discuss the most controversial example of such conflicts, which took place at the Tochigi Prefe…
The Empty Museum
This book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century and how they subsequently developed distinctive national characteristics. The author focuses on one of the most distinctive forms of Japanese museums: the 'empty museums' - museums without collections, permanent displays, or curators
Exhibition Review Essays and Exhibition Reviews
Exhibition Review Essays and Exhibition Reviews
Exhibition Review Essays and Exhibition Reviews
Books
Book Review Essays Sustaining the Past into the Future: Some Reflections on Mechanisms to Keep Heritage Meaningful and Sustainable Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability: Between Past and Future. Elizabeth Auclair and Graham Fairclough, eds. London: Routledge, 2015. Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage, Mia Ridge, ed. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014. Museums, Power, Knowledge: Selected Essays. Tony Bennett. London: Routledge, 2018. Book Rev…
Exploring Japanese Medical Students' mental distress and wellbeing challenges
The history of Nagasaki, the Japanese birthplace of Western medicine and its education
Over the past several centuries, Western medical knowledge and practices have circulated globally through colonial, missionary, and educational networks. Contemporary trends toward standardization continue to shape medical education worldwide, often reinforcing asymmetric power relations between the Global North and South. Although dominant models have frequently marginalized local knowledge and traditions, medical education has also involved pro…
Art (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (4 works) · Exhibition (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works)