Papers by Gwyn McClelland
International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology, 2021
Nuclear geographies and geographers contemplate the significance of nuclear technologies and issu... more Nuclear geographies and geographers contemplate the significance of nuclear technologies and issues for humans, nonhumans, and ecologies in the past, present, and future. This definition highlights how radiation interacts across different scales and mobilities by considering the significance of their relations to humans, nonhumans, ecologies, and materialities. The field brings together diverse geographical approaches to understand nuclear medicine, warfare, energy, and other nuclear technologies. With its focus on social, political, cultural, economic, and ecological consequences, nuclear geographies trace the way that nuclear legacies intersect with contemporary and future challenges. While a process of decolonization of knowledge has begun, more work is needed to highlight how and why the benefits and risks of nuclear technologies are unevenly distributed across lines of race, class, and gender, presenting threats to vulnerable human and nonhuman communities and perpetuating spatial inequalities. This definition provides a toolkit with which to approach key themes – landscapes, zones, and communities; materialities, culture, and the more‐than‐human; politics, activism, and postcolonialism – and with which to consider future directions.
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Becky Alexis-Martin
Jonathon Turnbull
Luke Bennett
Matthew Bolton
Thom Davies
Gair Dunlop
Dimity Hawkins
Rebecca H. Hogue
Philippa Holloway
Stephanie A. Malin
Talei Luscia Mangioni
Chloe Mayoux
Gwyn McClelland
Teva Meyer
elin o’Hara slavick
Linda Ross
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International Encyclopedia of Geography, Mar 25, 2021
Nuclear geographies and geographers contemplate the significance of nuclear technologies and issu... more Nuclear geographies and geographers contemplate the significance of nuclear technologies and issues for humans, nonhumans, and ecologies in the past, present, and future. This definition highlights how radiation interacts across different scales and mobilities by considering the significance of their relations to humans, nonhumans, ecologies, and materialities. The field brings together diverse geographical approaches to understand nuclear medicine, warfare, energy, and other nuclear technologies. With its focus on social, political, cultural, economic, and ecological consequences, nuclear geographies trace the way that nuclear legacies intersect with contemporary and future challenges. While a process of decolonization of knowledge has begun, more work is needed to highlight how and why the benefits and risks of nuclear technologies are unevenly distributed across lines of race, class, and gender, presenting threats to vulnerable human and nonhuman communities and perpetuating spatial inequalities. This definition provides a toolkit with which to approach key themes – landscapes, zones, and communities; materialities, culture, and the more-than-human; politics, activism, and postcolonialism – and with which to consider future directions
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Japanese Studies
Before COVID-19, language learning was undergoing technology-driven change, including classroom d... more Before COVID-19, language learning was undergoing technology-driven change, including classroom delivery through blended learning and opportunities for autonomous learning through online affordances. The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated these trends, forcing educators and students to diversify into new forms of online teaching and learning. In this article we reflect on our experiences teaching Japanese language during the first year of the pandemic at an internationalised metropolitan university and, subsequently, in regional universities in Australia. Importantly, our observations highlight the difficulty of replicating face-to-face classroom encounters and the differing experiences of our students during this crisis. We reflect on the importance of building learning communities online, the possibilities presented by the digital wilds and the value of self-access learning materials as the roles of students and teachers evolve. Our experiences contribute to a dialogue on the future for Japanese language teaching as challenges and opportunities uncovered by the COVID-19 crisis continue to play out in the higher education sector. We identify possibilities for better integration between Japanese language learning, technology and students’ interests and needs through strategic teaching of Japanese digital discourse. By engaging with online language use we observe new opportunities to reimagine the Japanese tertiary language class for the future.
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Japanese Studies
Before COVID-19, language learning was undergoing technology-driven change, including classroom d... more Before COVID-19, language learning was undergoing technology-driven change, including classroom delivery through blended learning and opportunities for autonomous learning through online affordances. The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated these trends, forcing educators and students to diversify into new forms of online teaching and learning. In this article we reflect on our experiences teaching Japanese language during the first year of the pandemic at an internationalised metropolitan university and, subsequently, in regional universities in Australia. Importantly, our observations highlight the difficulty of replicating face-to-face classroom encounters and the differing experiences of our students during this crisis. We reflect on the importance of building learning communities online, the possibilities presented by the digital wilds and the value of self-access learning materials as the roles of students and teachers evolve. Our experiences contribute to a dialogue on the future for Japanese language teaching as challenges and opportunities uncovered by the COVID-19 crisis continue to play out in the higher education sector. We identify possibilities for better integration between Japanese language learning, technology and students’ interests and needs through strategic teaching of Japanese digital discourse. By engaging with online language use we observe new opportunities to reimagine the Japanese tertiary language class for the future.
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International Encyclopedia of Geography, 2021
Nuclear geographies and geographers contemplate the significance of nuclear technologies and issu... more Nuclear geographies and geographers contemplate the significance of nuclear technologies and issues for humans, nonhumans, and ecologies in the past, present, and future. This definition highlights how radiation interacts across different scales and mobilities by considering the significance of their relations to humans, nonhumans, ecologies, and materialities. The field brings together diverse geographical approaches to understand nuclear medicine, warfare, energy, and other nuclear technologies. With its focus on social, political, cultural, economic, and ecological consequences, nuclear geographies trace the way that nuclear legacies intersect with contemporary and future challenges. While a process of decolonization of knowledge has begun, more work is needed to highlight how and why the benefits and risks of nuclear technologies are unevenly distributed across lines of race, class, and gender, presenting threats to vulnerable human and nonhuman communities and perpetuating spatial inequalities. This definition provides a toolkit with which to approach key themes – landscapes, zones, and communities; materialities, culture, and the more‐than‐human; politics, activism, and postcolonialism – and with which to consider future directions. AUTHORS: Becky Alexis-Martin Jonathon Turnbull Luke Bennett Matthew Bolton Thom Davies Gair Dunlop Dimity Hawkins Rebecca H. Hogue Philippa Holloway Stephanie A. Malin Talei Luscia Mangioni Chloe Mayoux Gwyn McClelland Teva Meyer elin o’Hara slavick Linda Ross
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electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies, Apr 14, 2019
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The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia, 2021
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The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will finally come into force after the 50th c... more The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will finally come into force after the 50th country (Honduras) ratified it over the weekend. The treaty will make the development, testing, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons illegal for those countries that have signed it. This is an extraordinary achievement for those who have suffered the most from these weapons — including the hibakusha (survivors) of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the islanders who lived through nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific. Since 1956, the hibakusha in Japan, South Korea, Brazil and elsewhere have been some of the most strident campaigners against the use of these weapons. Among them is a group of Japanese Catholics from Nagasaki whom I interviewed as part of my research collecting the oral histories of atomic bomb survivors.
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On 9 August 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Of the dead, approximatel... more On 9 August 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Of the dead, approximately 8500 were Catholic, representing sixty to seventy-five percent of their own community and over ten percent of the total. This thesis analyses the memories and narratives of surviving members of the Catholic community in Nagasaki through the lens of Johann Metz's theology of 'dangerous memory'. For the Catholic survivors, memories of the bombing destruction are linked to community narratives about religious persecution and marginalisation in earlier times. The survivors speak about ongoing tests of faith, but also their own resilience and survival.
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Shima, 2021
The islands in the Gotō region off Kyushu Island were refuges, mountains providing both terraces ... more The islands in the Gotō region off Kyushu Island were refuges, mountains providing both terraces for growing potatoes and rice; and hideaways for clandestine religious practices; seas and bays providing fish and seaweed. Religious refugees arrived here in the 18th and 19th centuries, but had to contend with a harsh winter climate, the strong prejudices of indigenous inhabitants, and the long arms of the Nagasaki magistrate. This article locates a migrant people known variously as the senpuku, the kakure, kirishitan, or Hidden Christians (HC), and their descendants who acknowledge the natural world’s imprint on them: their characteristics and cultural heritage are shaped by the interstitial spaces of the islands in which they subside(d). World Heritage Cultural listings in 2018 included sites on the islands and were rightly acclaimed. Yet, here, as in other places, the World Heritage campaign was at times driven by shallow motivations reflecting exotic and unfounded prejudices and to...
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Eras, 2014
Nagasaki was the second city to experience a nuclear attack at the end of WWII, seventy years ago... more Nagasaki was the second city to experience a nuclear attack at the end of WWII, seventy years ago. As we approach this anniversary, Paul Warham's translation of Seirai Yuichi's novel presents a fascinating window on the world view of the Catholic community, who were concentrated around Ground Zero in Nagasaki, in the locality of Urakami. Narratives such as that of the Christian minority divulge a lesser known history of Nagasaki. Here, we read of atomic memory touched by the themes of guilt, persecution and also resurrection.
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Religions, 2021
Since 1945, official Catholic discourse around nuclear weapons has condemned their existence on t... more Since 1945, official Catholic discourse around nuclear weapons has condemned their existence on the one hand and supported them as deterrents on the other. This paper argues the largely abstracted discourse on nuclear weapons within the World Church has been disrupted by voices of Urakami in Nagasaki since at least 1981, as the Vatican has re-considered both memory and Catholic treatments of the bombing of this city since the end of World War II. On 9 August 1945, a plutonium A-bomb, nicknamed ‘Fat Man’, was detonated by the United States over the northern suburb of Nagasaki known as Urakami. Approximately 8500 Catholics were killed by the deployment of the bomb in this place that was once known as the Rome of the East. Many years on, two popes visited Nagasaki, the first in 1981 and the second in 2019. Throughout the period from John Paul II’s initial visit to Pope Francis’s visit in 2019, the Catholic Church’s official stance on nuclear weapons evolved significantly. Pope John Pau...
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Journal of Church and State, 2020
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Asian Studies Review, 2019
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Journal of Religion in Japan, 2016
When Urakami Cathedral was rebuilt in 1959, many citizens experienced the loss of the ruins as a ... more When Urakami Cathedral was rebuilt in 1959, many citizens experienced the loss of the ruins as a silencing of Nagasaki’s experience. This paper explores Catholic survivors’ attitudes towards the Cathedral and loss of an important atomic relic, and shows that while they regret the ruins’ disappearance, they also recognise the rebuilt Cathedral as a symbol of survival. In addition, by examining individual and collective narrative and photographic images, it is demonstrated that Urakami Christian (kirishitan キリシタン) narratives on the Cathedral bond the trauma of the bomb to older memories of persecution, which in turn intensifies the justification for rebuilding the church. By placing such communal memory in the context of theologian Johann Baptist Metz’s conception of the ‘dangerous memory’ of suffering, the author evaluates narratives such as Nagai Takashi’s providence (go-setsuri ご摂理) and interpretation of the bombing as the Urakami ‘Fifth Persecution’ (go-ban kuzure 五番崩れ).
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Papers by Gwyn McClelland
AUTHORS:
Becky Alexis-Martin
Jonathon Turnbull
Luke Bennett
Matthew Bolton
Thom Davies
Gair Dunlop
Dimity Hawkins
Rebecca H. Hogue
Philippa Holloway
Stephanie A. Malin
Talei Luscia Mangioni
Chloe Mayoux
Gwyn McClelland
Teva Meyer
elin o’Hara slavick
Linda Ross
AUTHORS:
Becky Alexis-Martin
Jonathon Turnbull
Luke Bennett
Matthew Bolton
Thom Davies
Gair Dunlop
Dimity Hawkins
Rebecca H. Hogue
Philippa Holloway
Stephanie A. Malin
Talei Luscia Mangioni
Chloe Mayoux
Gwyn McClelland
Teva Meyer
elin o’Hara slavick
Linda Ross