Dr Christopher Gerteis
BA (UC SANTA CRUZ) MA, PhD (UNIV OF IOWA)
Overview
Department of History
(Lecturer in the History of Contemporary Japan)
Japan Research Centre (JRC)
(Member, Japan Research Centre)
Modern and Contemporary Japanese history. Social and cultural history of the 20th century, especially the intersection of consumer capitalism and historical memory.
Contact Details
- Name:
- Dr Christopher Gerteis
- Email address:
- cg24@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4093
- Fax:
- 020 7898 4699
- Address:
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 305
- Office Hours:
- Mon: 12:00-13:00; Wed: 11:30-12:30; and by appt
Interests / Disciplines
Modern and Contemporary Japanese history. Social and cultural history of the 20th century, especially the intersection of consumer capitalism and historical memory.Teaching
Courses Taught
Research
Chris’ research interests traverse the 20th century. His first book, Gender Struggles: Wage-earning Women and Male Dominant Unions in Postwar Japan, examines the the extent to which customary notions of work, gender and ethnicity influenced the formation of the socialist labor movement in postwar Japan. He is currently working on two new projects examining the intersection of consumer capitalism, social history, and the politics of culture and identity in contemporary Japan. The first examines popular memories of the interwar era passenger steamship lines and the other is a history of Formula 1/Grand Prix motor racing in Japan.
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Available for
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
- Short Term Consultancy
- Long Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
- East Asia
Country Expertise
- Japan
Languages
Publications
Authored Books
Gerteis, Christopher (2009) Gender Struggles: Wage-earning Women and Male-Dominated Unions in Postwar Japan. Harvard East Asian monographs, 321. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Council on East Asian Studies.
Chapters in Books
Gerteis, Christopher (2008) 'Labor Unions in Japan.' In: Stearns, Peter N., (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press, pp. 406-407.
Gerteis, Christopher (2008) 'Labor and the Labor Movement: Labor Relations in Japan.' In: Stearns, Peter N., (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press, pp. 383-385.
Gerteis, Christopher (2008) 'Subjectivity lost: Labor and the Cold War in Occupied Japan.' In: Stromquist, Shelton, (ed.), Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context. The working class in American history. Urbana, Illinois, USA: University of Illinois Press, pp. 258-290.
Articles
Gerteis, Christopher (2008) '「大原社研アーカイブと社会史研究」.' 大原社会問題研究所雑誌=Journal of Ōhara Institute for Social Research (591). pp. 10-14.
Gerteis, Chrsitopher (2007) 'The Erotic and the Vulgar: Visual Culture and Organized Labor's Critique of U.S. Hegemony in Occupied Japan.' Critical Asian Studies, 39 (1). pp. 3-34.
Gerteis, Christopher (2003) 'Labor’s Cold Warriors: The American Federation of Labor and ‘Free Trade Unionism’ in Cold War Japan.' The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 12 (3). pp. 207-224.
Book Reviews
Gerteis, Christopher (2008) Review Essay and Selected Bibliography on Labor in Japan. Labor History, 49 (2). pp. 253-255.
Gerteis, Christopher (2008) Religious Terrorism and Popular Culture: The Uses and Abuses of Aum Shinrikyō. A Review Essay. Journal of Religion and Society (10). pp. 1-6.
Gerteis, Christopher (2008) Review of 'Gendering Modern Japanese History' edited by Barbara Molony and Kathleen Uno. Journal of Asian Studies, 67 (1). pp. 326-328.
Gerteis, Christopher (2008) Review of 'A Sociology of Work in Japan' by Ross Mouer and Hirosuke Kawanishi. Labor History, 49 (2). pp. 260-261.
Gerteis, Christopher (2008) Review of 'War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005' by Franziska Seraphim. Journal of Asian Studies, 67 (3). pp. 1098-1100.
Gerteis, Christopher (2007) Review of 'Cooperation over Conflict: The Women's Movement and the State in Postwar Japan' by Miriam Murase. Journal of Asian Studies, 66 (3). pp. 848-849.
Gerteis, Christopher (2005) Review of 'Divisions of Labor: Globality, Ideology, and War in the Shaping of the Japanese Labor Movement' by Lonny E. Carlile. Journal of Asian Studies, 64 (4). pp. 1024-1025.
