In this class we will explore the changing relationships between human beings and “nature” in the Japanese archipelago from the late-sixteenth century to the present day. The course is designed for students without any background in Japanese history. However, even for students with some kind of background in Japanese history will find that the historical terrain of Japan looks different because the methods we are going to use in this course are different that what are used in a typical history course. Using many different disciplinary perspectives, this class will take a different look at how human animals have interacted ecologically in places and with nonhuman animals over time. Some of the questions that we will be thinking about as we move along are: How has the land and ocean limited or enabled human settlement and development in the Japanese Islands? How have human relationships with terrestrial and maritime worlds changed over time? How do the relationships differ from place-to-place? Who – or what – has flourished or suffered as human beings have altered the world around them? How have valuations of “nature” changed over time? [3 credits]
Prerequisites:
None
Additional student cost:
None
Learning outcomes:
By the end of the course students will be able to:
Critically address the historical relationship between humans and nonhumans in the Japanese Islands;
Identify continuities and differences between current environmental concerns of the present and the past;
Describe historiographical and methodological trends in environmental history as a sub-discipline of history;
Develop, analyze, and present primary, secondary, and visual texts in short- and medium-length presentations.
Method of presentation:
Lectures, Moodle, discussions, fieldwork, and student presentations.
The class meets one time per week, for 3 hours each session. Additionally, there is a full-day class field study outing (on a weekend) plus longer meetings for the field study outings.
Required work and form of assessment:
1. Participation (20%)
Active participation is evaluated. As you can see by the big percentage, I take this part of the evaluation process seriously. This is because what makes or breaks a course is the active engagement of all the participants. (I am including myself in this.) I hope that those comfortable with talking in class will work on their listening skills, while those more comfortable listening will be prepared to talk as well. (I will not reward grandstanding.)
Actively participating requires that you have done your reading. (It also requires that you are awake.) I am not evaluating you on how much you have learned in past classes. I am evaluating your weekly performance. I will take note of your engagement with the reading and your respectful engagement with your fellow participants. So before you come to class, be ready to discuss what you have read. Bring up what you get and what you don’t get. You can demonstrate you have done your homework by beginning points of discussion, summarizing the main points of discussion, bringing up parts of the readings that are unclear, and asking your fellow participants questions. (I take note of -- and give first-class grades to -- students that ask their fellow students questions because it is rare.)
1- 2 students will be required to lead a reading discussion. A signup list will be provided in the first week of the class.
2. Weekly Reading Responses (20%)
Each week, students are required to write short responses on one or more of the readings before our class. (This includes the field studies). The responses are meant to demonstrate an engagement with the readings and course themes of the week. You don’t need to write much. I am only looking for 1 – 1.5 pages on what you think about the readings.
The structure of these responses is open, but it should show that you can identifying the main argument(s), or theme(s), of the assigned readings. Feel free to include questions that the readings raise, or respond to students’ responses.
“Submit” your response in the weekly discussion thread in the Moodle page for the course by Thursday at 17:00. It’s important that you are not late when writing these things, as we need to read everyone’s responses before the beginning of class.
I know that this looks like a fair amount of work. However, keep the following in mind: each reaction – which should demonstrate that you have done the reading and have put some time into organizing your thoughts – will be given full points. If you miss the response you will not get “marks” for that week. But if you submit all of your outlines, on time, you will receive a full 20% for this element of your final grade.
LATE PAPERS POLICY: No late outlines will be accepted.
3. Midterm (20%)
The in-class midterm will be held during the 31 May 2013 class. It will consist of 5 out of 8 short identification questions and a short essay. I am looking for students to show me a synthesis of the materials we have covered in both the lectures and the readings. (I am not looking for your command of Wikipedia entries.)
I will supply the examination booklets on the day of the test.
4. Commodity Paper and Presentation (40%)
For your final assignment, I would like you to produce a 10-15-page paper on a national, regional, or global commodity that has been consumed in Japan. The values of commodities are complex and they are never static but generally a commodity’s value is derived from both its use and market value. Neither of these things is timeless. Commodities are ideal to write histories about because they have so important to fuelling historical change in the Japanese archipelago.
What do I want you to do? I would like to see you write a description or tell a story that will explain to me how this commodity has changed in production and consumption over time. What kind of commodities are out there? One of the best places to look is in the supermarket. Here are some examples of commodities that I came up with: Coffee, soy beans, green tea, sugar, rice, konbu, whale meat, salmon, tuna, bananas, pork, apples, beef, musk mellons, bonito, MSG, and horse meat. There are many more. Some commodities exclusive of my search in the store are: silk, human hair, bird feathers, silver, fur, whale oil, gold, and opium.
You can be creative when writing your paper, and I expect that the approaches that people will bring will be different as we all have different skill sets and different disciplinary interests and experiences. A good paper should bring together many different ways of knowing and doing. It can be written through a person, or it can focus on the commodity itself. It will also include a variety of sources. Please limit the number of internet sources that you use in your paper, and I encourage you to make use of primary sources.
Before submitting your project, you need to write a 200-300 word proposal with a tentative bibliography in a standard bibliographic format (Chicago Manual of Style, MLA, etc.). At the beginning of your proposal, please write a tentative thesis statement or a historical problematic that you hope to solve. Limit your project by space and time. Telling me about the history of sericulture (producing silk) in Japan would be too large. However, a paper on the history of the industrialization of sericulture in the late nineteenth-century would be a little more "do-able".
This proposal is due on 9 May by 23:59 by email. It will be worth 10% of your final paper grade. I must have this proposal for you to continue on with your project.
In the final session, students will give a 5-minute presentation of their project using Powerpoint or Keynote. (Don’t try getting away with just throwing a bunch of pictures on the screen.) We will go over the “dos and don’ts” of Powerpoint presentations during the course. Feel free to add participants’ comments into the final version of your paper.
This presentation will be worth 10% of your final paper grade.
The final paper is due on 11 July 2013 (Thursday) by 23:59 by email.
LATE PAPERS POLICY: No late outlines will be accepted.
Overall grading:
Participation (20%)
Weekly Reactions (20%)
Midterm (20%)
Commodity Paper (40%, broken down as follows)
i. Bibliography (10%)
ii. Presentation (10%)
iii. Final Paper (20%)
Cases of Academic Dishonesty:
This is important. Plagiarism or any other form of academic dishonesty will not tolerated in this course. Any assignment (exam, paper, etc.) that is the product of deliberate academic dishonesty will receive a failing grade. All infractions of the IES Abroad Integrity Code will be reported to the Center Director. If you are unclear on what counts for plagiarism, let me know.
content:
All of the readings will be posted on the Moodle page of the course.
Session 1: Geographical and Course Orientations
Readings (63 pp):
McNeill, John Robert. "Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History." History and Theory no. Theme Issue 42 (2003): 5-43.
Session 2: Early Modern Commodity Frontiers and the Making of the Early Modern State
Readings (approx. 128 pp):
Conrad D. Totman. The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1989. 9-115.
Walker, Brett L. "Commercial Growth and Environmental Change in Early Modern Japan: Hachinohe's Wild Boar Famine of 1749." The Journal of Asian Studies 60, no. 2 (2001): 329-51.
Session 3: Modern Commodity Frontiers and Japan’s Early Pelagic Empire
Readings (69 pp):
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. "Japan." In Re-Inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation. 9-34. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
Muscolino, Micah. "The Yellow Croaker War: Fishery Disputes between China and Japan, 1925-1935." Environmental History 13 (April 2008): 305-24.
Tyner, Colin. "Entering the Island of Torishima from a Bird’s Eye View." In Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference 1-25. Honolulu, Hawai'i, 2011.
Session 4: Industrial Agriculture in the Japanese Empire
Readings (50 pp):
Walker, Brett L. "Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and the Destruction of Japan's Hokkaido Wolf." Environmental History 9, no. 2 (2004): 248-79.
Chambers, David Wade, and Richard Gillespie. "The History of Science: Colonial Science, Technoscience, and Indigenous Knowledge." Osiris 15, no. Nature and Empire: Science and the Colonial Enterprise (2000 2000): 221-40.
Session 5: National Natures: Field Work in National Museum of Nature and Science
In this trip, we will write and talk the centrality of animals in the Japan-wing of the National Museum of Nature and Science. How are animals juxtaposed with humans in the environment of the museum? How do animals help to tell how human beings have engaged with nature in the Japanese archipelago? Which animals are central in this story?
Readings (127 pp):
Skabelund, Aaron. Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World, Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011, 87-170.
Haraway, Donna. "Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936." Social Text no. 11 (1984-1985): 20-64.
Session 6: Urban Environmental History
Readings (69 pp):
Clancey, Gregory. "The Meiji Earthquake: Nature, Nation, and the Ambiguities of
Catastrophe." Modern Asian Studies 40, no. 4 (October 2006): 909-51.
Fujii, James A. "Intimate Alienation: Japanese Urban Rail and the Commodification of Urban Subjects." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 11, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 106-33.
Session 7: Midterm Exam
Session 8: Field Trip to University of Tokyo Botanical Gardens
In this trip, we will go to the oldest botanical garden in Tokyo. First established in the late-eighteenth century as a medicinal herb garden, this botanical garden was the nation-state’s center of calculation for knowledge about plants that could be used commercially. During our walk around the garden, we will learn to write and talk about how the values of plants and city space have changed over time.
Readings (89 pp):
Havens, Thomas R.H. Parkscapes: Green Spaces in Modern Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2011, 1-53, 85-121.
Session 9: Warfare and the Environment
Readings (59 pp):
Tsutsui, William. "Landscapes in the Dark Valley: Toward an Environmental History of Wartime Japan." Environmental History 8, no. 2 (2003 2003): 294-311.
Russell, Edmund P. "'Speaking of Annihilation': Mobilizing for War against Human and Insect Enemies, 1914-1945." The Journal of American History 82, no. 4 (March 1996): 1501-29.
Cook, Haruko, and Theodore Cook. Japan at War: An Oral History. 1. ed. New York: New Press, 1992, 56-60, 158-167.
Session 10: Rapid Industrial Growth and New Sacrifices
Readings (87 pp):
Walker, Brett L. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. 1-21, 108-174.
Session 11: Transnational Japanese Environments
Readings (48 pp):
Tsing, Anna, and Shiho Satsuka. "Diverging Understandings of Forest Management in Matsutake Science." Economic botany 62, no. 3 (2008): 244-53.
Bestor, Theodore C. "Supply-Side Sushi: Commodity, Market, and the Global City." American Anthropologist 103, no. 1 (2001): 76-95.
Session 12: Final Presentations of Research Findings
Readings: None
*Note on Possible Changes to the Syllabus: The instructor reserves the right to adjust the syllabus based on the general capabilities and interests of the students enrolled in the class.
Required readings:
Bestor, Theodore C. "Supply-Side Sushi: Commodity, Market, and the Global City." American Anthropologist 103, no. 1 (2001): 76-95.
Chambers, David Wade, and Richard Gillespie. "The History of Science: Colonial Science, Technoscience, and Indigenous Knowledge." Osiris 15, no. Nature and Empire: Science and the Colonial Enterprise (2000 2000): 221-40.
Clancey, Gregory. "The Meiji Earthquake: Nature, Nation, and the Ambiguities of Catastrophe." Modern Asian Studies 40, no. 4 (October 2006 2006): 909-51.
Cook, Haruko, and Theodore Cook. Japan at War: An Oral History. 1. ed. New York: New Press, 1992.
Fujii, James A. "Intimate Alienation: Japanese Urban Rail and the Commodification of Urban Subjects." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 11, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 106-33.
Haraway, Donna. "Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936." Social Text, no. 11 (Winter 1984-1985 1984-1985): 20-64.
Havens, Thomas R.H. Parkscapes: Green Spaces in Modern Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2011.
McNeill, John Robert. "Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History." History and Theory, no. Theme Issue 42 (2003): 5-43.
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. "Japan." In Re-Inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation. 9-34. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E.
Sharpe, 1998.
Muscolino, Micah. "The Yellow Croaker War: Fishery Disputes between China and Japan, 1925-1935." Environmental History 13 (April 2008): 305-24.
Russell, Edmund P. "'Speaking of Annihilation': Mobilizing for War against against Human and Insect Enemies, 1914-1945." The Journal of American History 82, no. 4 (March 1996 1996): 1501-29.
Totman, Conrad D. The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
Tsing, Anna, and Shiho Satsuka. "Diverging Understandings of Forest Management in Matsutake Science." Economic botany 62, no. 3 (2008): 244-53.
Tsutsui, William. "Landscapes in the Dark Valley: Toward an Environmental History of Wartime Japan." Environmental History 8, no. 2 (2003 2003): 294-311.
Tyner, Colin. "Entering the Island of Torishima from a Bird’s Eye View." In Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference 1-25. Honolulu, Hawai'i, 2011.
Walker, Brett L. "Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and the Destruction of Japan's Hokkaido Wolf." Environmental History 9, no. 2 (April 2004 2004): 248-74.
———. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010.
White, Richard. The Organic Machine. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.
Recommended readings:
Brady, Lisa M. "The Wilderness of War: Nature and Stragety in the American Civil War." Environmental History 10, no. 3 (July 2005 2005): 421-47.
Brockway, Lucile H. "Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens." American Anthropologist 6, no. 3 (2009): 449-65.
Burke, Edmund, and Kenneth Pomeranz. The Environment and World History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
Clancey, Gregory. Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
DeShano, Cathy, Michelle Niemann, Brian Hamilton, Emma Schroeder, Abigail Popp, Stillman Wagstaff, Kevin Gibbons, et al. Sources: How to Read a Landscape. Madison, 2008. http://www.williamcronon.net/researching/landscapes.htm.
Dore, Ronald P. City Life in Japan: A Study of a Tokyo Ward. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1958.
Gluck, Carol. Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Gordon, Andrew. A Modern History of Japan from Tokugawa Times to the Present. Second ed. London: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. 1st rev. ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.
———. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.
———. "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative." The Journal of American History 78, no. 4 (March 1992 1992): 1347-76.
Crosby, Alfred W. Germs, Seeds, and Animals: Studies in Ecological History. Armonk: M.E. Sharp, 1994.
Dower, John W. Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1993.
———. War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
Figal, Gerald. "Between War and Tropics: Heritage Tourism in Postwar Okinawa." The Public Historian 30, no. 2 (May 2008 2008): 83-107.
Haraway, Donna J. The Companion Species Manifesto : Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.
Kalland, Arne, and Pamela J. Asquith. "Japanese Perceptions of Nature: Ideals and Illusions." In Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives, edited by Pamela J. Asquith and Arne Kalland. 1-35. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1997.
Kalland, Arne, and Brian Moeran. Japanese Whaling: End of an Era? Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series. London: Curzon Press, 1992.
McNeill, John Robert. Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.
Muscolino, Micah S. Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009.
Nash, Linda L. "The Agency of Nature or the Nature of Agency?". Environmental History 10, no. 1 (2005 2005): 67-69.
O'Connor, Kaori. "The King's Christmas Pudding: Globalization, Recipes, and the Commodities of Empire." Journal of Global History 4 (2009 2009): 127-55.
Pflugfelder, Gregory M., and Brett L. Walker, eds. Japanimals: History and Culture in Japan's Animal Life. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies University of Michigan, 2005.
Pomeranz, Kenneth, and Steven Topik. The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy. 2nd ed. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.
Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Smits, Gregory. "Shaking up Japan: Edo Society and the 1855 Catfish Picture Prints." Journal of Social History 39, no. 4 (2006): 1045-78.
Totman, Conrad D. Japan's Imperial Forest, Goryôrin, 1889-1946. Kent: Global Oriental, 2007.
———. Early Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
———. The Origins of Japan's Modern Forests: The Case of Akita. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985.
Voss, Julia, and Sahotra Sarkar. "Depictions as Surrogates for Places: From Wallace's Biogeography to Koch's Dioramas." Philosophy & Geography 6, no. 1 (2003): 59-81.
Walker, Brett L. The Lost Wolves of Japan. Seattle University of Washington Press, 2005.
Brief Biography of Instructor:
Colin Tyner is a PhD candidate in Modern East Asian History at University of California, Santa Cruz. He teaches the history of the global production and consumption of commodities at Temple University in Japan. He is currently writing an environmental history on the Ogasawara Islands.
Environmental History of Japan
In this class we will explore the changing relationships between human beings and “nature” in the Japanese archipelago from the late-sixteenth century to the present day. The course is designed for students without any background in Japanese history. However, even for students with some kind of background in Japanese history will find that the historical terrain of Japan looks different because the methods we are going to use in this course are different that what are used in a typical history course. Using many different disciplinary perspectives, this class will take a different look at how human animals have interacted ecologically in places and with nonhuman animals over time. Some of the questions that we will be thinking about as we move along are: How has the land and ocean limited or enabled human settlement and development in the Japanese Islands? How have human relationships with terrestrial and maritime worlds changed over time? How do the relationships differ from place-to-place? Who – or what – has flourished or suffered as human beings have altered the world around them? How have valuations of “nature” changed over time? [3 credits]
None
None
By the end of the course students will be able to:
Lectures, Moodle, discussions, fieldwork, and student presentations.
The class meets one time per week, for 3 hours each session. Additionally, there is a full-day class field study outing (on a weekend) plus longer meetings for the field study outings.
1. Participation (20%)
2. Weekly Reading Responses (20%)
3. Midterm (20%)
4. Commodity Paper and Presentation (40%)
Overall grading:
i. Bibliography (10%)
ii. Presentation (10%)
iii. Final Paper (20%)
Cases of Academic Dishonesty:
This is important. Plagiarism or any other form of academic dishonesty will not tolerated in this course. Any assignment (exam, paper, etc.) that is the product of deliberate academic dishonesty will receive a failing grade. All infractions of the IES Abroad Integrity Code will be reported to the Center Director. If you are unclear on what counts for plagiarism, let me know.
All of the readings will be posted on the Moodle page of the course.
Session 1: Geographical and Course Orientations
Readings (63 pp):
McNeill, John Robert. "Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History." History and Theory no. Theme Issue 42 (2003): 5-43.
Oosthoek, Jan. "What Is Environmental History?" Environmental History Resources (2011), http://www.eh-resources.org/environmental_history.html, 1-25
Session 2: Early Modern Commodity Frontiers and the Making of the Early Modern State
Readings (approx. 128 pp):
Conrad D. Totman. The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1989. 9-115.
Walker, Brett L. "Commercial Growth and Environmental Change in Early Modern Japan: Hachinohe's Wild Boar Famine of 1749." The Journal of Asian Studies 60, no. 2 (2001): 329-51.
Session 3: Modern Commodity Frontiers and Japan’s Early Pelagic Empire
Readings (69 pp):
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. "Japan." In Re-Inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation. 9-34. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
Muscolino, Micah. "The Yellow Croaker War: Fishery Disputes between China and Japan, 1925-1935." Environmental History 13 (April 2008): 305-24.
Tyner, Colin. "Entering the Island of Torishima from a Bird’s Eye View." In Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference 1-25. Honolulu, Hawai'i, 2011.
Session 4: Industrial Agriculture in the Japanese Empire
Readings (50 pp):
Walker, Brett L. "Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and the Destruction of Japan's Hokkaido Wolf." Environmental History 9, no. 2 (2004): 248-79.
Chambers, David Wade, and Richard Gillespie. "The History of Science: Colonial Science, Technoscience, and Indigenous Knowledge." Osiris 15, no. Nature and Empire: Science and the Colonial Enterprise (2000 2000): 221-40.
Session 5: National Natures: Field Work in National Museum of Nature and Science
In this trip, we will write and talk the centrality of animals in the Japan-wing of the National Museum of Nature and Science. How are animals juxtaposed with humans in the environment of the museum? How do animals help to tell how human beings have engaged with nature in the Japanese archipelago? Which animals are central in this story?
Readings (127 pp):
Skabelund, Aaron. Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World, Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011, 87-170.
Haraway, Donna. "Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936." Social Text no. 11 (1984-1985): 20-64.
Session 6: Urban Environmental History
Readings (69 pp):
Clancey, Gregory. "The Meiji Earthquake: Nature, Nation, and the Ambiguities of
Catastrophe." Modern Asian Studies 40, no. 4 (October 2006): 909-51.
Fujii, James A. "Intimate Alienation: Japanese Urban Rail and the Commodification of Urban Subjects." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 11, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 106-33.
Session 7: Midterm Exam
Session 8: Field Trip to University of Tokyo Botanical Gardens
In this trip, we will go to the oldest botanical garden in Tokyo. First established in the late-eighteenth century as a medicinal herb garden, this botanical garden was the nation-state’s center of calculation for knowledge about plants that could be used commercially. During our walk around the garden, we will learn to write and talk about how the values of plants and city space have changed over time.
Readings (89 pp):
Havens, Thomas R.H. Parkscapes: Green Spaces in Modern Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2011, 1-53, 85-121.
Session 9: Warfare and the Environment
Readings (59 pp):
Tsutsui, William. "Landscapes in the Dark Valley: Toward an Environmental History of Wartime Japan." Environmental History 8, no. 2 (2003 2003): 294-311.
Russell, Edmund P. "'Speaking of Annihilation': Mobilizing for War against Human and Insect Enemies, 1914-1945." The Journal of American History 82, no. 4 (March 1996): 1501-29.
Cook, Haruko, and Theodore Cook. Japan at War: An Oral History. 1. ed. New York: New Press, 1992, 56-60, 158-167.
Session 10: Rapid Industrial Growth and New Sacrifices
Readings (87 pp):
Walker, Brett L. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. 1-21, 108-174.
Session 11: Transnational Japanese Environments
Readings (48 pp):
Tsing, Anna, and Shiho Satsuka. "Diverging Understandings of Forest Management in Matsutake Science." Economic botany 62, no. 3 (2008): 244-53.
Bestor, Theodore C. "Supply-Side Sushi: Commodity, Market, and the Global City." American Anthropologist 103, no. 1 (2001): 76-95.
UNU-IAS, and Ministry of the Environment. "Satoyama Initiative." United Nations University, http://satoyama-initiative.org/en/., 1-20
Session 12: Final Presentations of Research Findings
Readings: None
*Note on Possible Changes to the Syllabus: The instructor reserves the right to adjust the syllabus based on the general capabilities and interests of the students enrolled in the class.
Bestor, Theodore C. "Supply-Side Sushi: Commodity, Market, and the Global City." American Anthropologist 103, no. 1 (2001): 76-95.
Chambers, David Wade, and Richard Gillespie. "The History of Science: Colonial Science, Technoscience, and Indigenous Knowledge." Osiris 15, no. Nature and Empire: Science and the Colonial Enterprise (2000 2000): 221-40.
Clancey, Gregory. "The Meiji Earthquake: Nature, Nation, and the Ambiguities of Catastrophe." Modern Asian Studies 40, no. 4 (October 2006 2006): 909-51.
Cook, Haruko, and Theodore Cook. Japan at War: An Oral History. 1. ed. New York: New Press, 1992.
Fujii, James A. "Intimate Alienation: Japanese Urban Rail and the Commodification of Urban Subjects." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 11, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 106-33.
Haraway, Donna. "Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936." Social Text, no. 11 (Winter 1984-1985 1984-1985): 20-64.
Havens, Thomas R.H. Parkscapes: Green Spaces in Modern Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2011.
McNeill, John Robert. "Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History." History and Theory, no. Theme Issue 42 (2003): 5-43.
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. "Japan." In Re-Inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation. 9-34. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E.
Sharpe, 1998.
Muscolino, Micah. "The Yellow Croaker War: Fishery Disputes between China and Japan, 1925-1935." Environmental History 13 (April 2008): 305-24.
Oosthoek, Jan. "What Is Environmental History?" In, Environmental History Resources (2011). http://www.eh-resources.org/environmental_history.html
Russell, Edmund P. "'Speaking of Annihilation': Mobilizing for War against against Human and Insect Enemies, 1914-1945." The Journal of American History 82, no. 4 (March 1996 1996): 1501-29.
Totman, Conrad D. The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
Tsing, Anna, and Shiho Satsuka. "Diverging Understandings of Forest Management in Matsutake Science." Economic botany 62, no. 3 (2008): 244-53.
Tsutsui, William. "Landscapes in the Dark Valley: Toward an Environmental History of Wartime Japan." Environmental History 8, no. 2 (2003 2003): 294-311.
Tyner, Colin. "Entering the Island of Torishima from a Bird’s Eye View." In Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference 1-25. Honolulu, Hawai'i, 2011.
UNU-IAS, and Ministry of the Environment. "Satoyama Initiative." United Nations University, http://satoyama-initiative.org/en/.
Walker, Brett L. "Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and the Destruction of Japan's Hokkaido Wolf." Environmental History 9, no. 2 (April 2004 2004): 248-74.
———. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010.
White, Richard. The Organic Machine. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.
Brady, Lisa M. "The Wilderness of War: Nature and Stragety in the American Civil War." Environmental History 10, no. 3 (July 2005 2005): 421-47.
Brockway, Lucile H. "Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens." American Anthropologist 6, no. 3 (2009): 449-65.
Burke, Edmund, and Kenneth Pomeranz. The Environment and World History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
Clancey, Gregory. Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
DeShano, Cathy, Michelle Niemann, Brian Hamilton, Emma Schroeder, Abigail Popp, Stillman Wagstaff, Kevin Gibbons, et al. Sources: How to Read a Landscape. Madison, 2008. http://www.williamcronon.net/researching/landscapes.htm.
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Colin Tyner is a PhD candidate in Modern East Asian History at University of California, Santa Cruz. He teaches the history of the global production and consumption of commodities at Temple University in Japan. He is currently writing an environmental history on the Ogasawara Islands.