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Affiliation: Professor, Meijigakuin University

Degree: Bachelor of Arts in English Literature(Jun, 1983, Cambridge University)
Master of Arts(MA)(Jun, 1986, Cambridge University)
Masters Degree in Social Anthropology(London School of Economics)
Doctorate in Social Anthropology(Oct, 1996, London School of Economics)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201201063075035956
researchmap Member ID: 7000000082

External link: http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~gill/

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Cultural anthropology and folklore / 社会人類学

Research History

Apr, 2011 - Present

Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Department of Global and Transcultural Studies, Meijigakuin University
Apr, 2006 - Mar, 2011

Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Department of International Stidies, Meijigakuin University
Apr, 2003 - Mar, 2006

Associate Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Department of International Stidies, Meijigakuin University

Education

Oct, 1992 - Jun, 1996

London School of Economics
Oct, 1990 - Jun, 1992

Social anthropology of Japan, Dept. of Social Anthropology, London School of Economics
Oct, 1980 - Jun, 1983

English Literature, English Literature, Cambridge University

Committee Memberships

1998 - Present

実行委員会委員, 日本寄せ場学会

Awards

Papers

『震災復興の公共人類学: 福島原発事故被災者と津波被災者との協働』、第6章: 当事者が語る:一人の強制避難者が経験した福島第一原発事故

庄司正彦

Jan, 2019 Peer-reviewedInvited
The Nativist Backlash: Exploring the Roots of the Action Conservative Movement

Social Science Japan Journal, Aug, 2018 Peer-reviewed
People who have to create a new locality: The street wisdom of nuclear accident victims fighting against a new reality. Chapter 2 of Street Anthropology: Empirical Developments in Methods and Theory, ed. Yasumasa Sekine.

Feb, 2018 Peer-reviewedInvited
Those Restless Little Boats: On the uneasiness of Japanese powerboat gamblers

Oct, 2013 Peer-reviewed
「場所と人間の関係が絶たれるとき――福島第一原発事故と「故郷(ふるさと)」の意味」

『東日本大震災の人類学――津波、原発事故と被災者たちの「その後」』, 第6章、201～237頁, Mar, 2013
日本の都市路上に散った男らしさ――ホームレス男性にとって自立の意味

日本人の「男らしさ」：サムライからオタクまで「男性性」の変貌を負う, 175-202, Jan, 2013 Peer-reviewed
西ベルファストの平行線：確執の都市風景

明治学院大学国際学部付属研究所年報, 15 99-128, Dec, 2012
‘Chiko,’ ‘A View of the Seaside,’ and ‘Mister Ben of the Igloo’: Visual and Verbal Narrative Technique in Three Classic Manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge

14(2) 169-190., Oct, 2012
The Incident at Nishibeta Village: A Classic Manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge from the Garo Years.

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (online), 10(35 (2)) 1-14, Aug, 2012 Invited
汚された土、潰された共同体：福島県相馬郡飯舘村長泥地区における放射能の悲劇

『寄せ場』（日本寄せ場学会年報）, 25, Jun, 2012
Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan: The Meanings of Self-Reliance for Homeless Men

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (online), 10(1(2)) 1-22, Dec, 2011 Invited
Fetuses in the Sewer: A comparative study of classic 1960s manga by Tatsumi Yoshihiro and Tsuge Yoshiharu.

13(2) 325-343., Oct, 2011
Contesting the Streets: Shelter-Resistant Homeless Men and Encampments in Japan, America and Britain.

国立民族学博物館研究報告, 37(4) 681-712., Mar, 2011 Peer-reviewed
闘争空間としてのストリート：シェルターを拒否するホームレスの日英米比較研究

ストリートの人類学、関根康正編（国立民族博物館報告）, 80 149-184., Jun, 2009
ニンビー現象と回避行動

『排除する社会・受容する社会―現代ケガレ論』関根康正・新谷尚紀編, 2-32, Apr, 2007
日本のホームレスの事情とそれに関する行政対策――地域別・国際的な研究

＜日本＞を超えて――トランスナショナリティ研究４, 4 172-209, Feb, 2006
シェルター文化の誕生--ホームレス自立支援法から2年間

Gill Tom

研究所年報, (7) 55-73-73, Dec, 2004
When Pillars Evaporate: Structuring Masculinity on the Japanese Margins

Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan: Dislocating the Salaryman Doxa, ed. James Roberson and, 144-161, Jul, 2003 Peer-reviewed
アメリカン・ホームレス――米国発信のホームレス文献、一九九四年～一九九九年

寄せ場, (15) 113-141, May, 2002
「管理社会」再検討

生・老・死：日本人の人生観－内からの眼、外からの眼（国立歴史民俗博物館シンポジウムの記録）, 493-505, Jan, 2002

Misc.

Serious Play: Anthropological Observations on the Hope College Pull

Tom Gill

26 69-77, Oct 1, 2023
Rebutting Ramseyer's Papers: From the Perspective of a Researcher in the English-language sphere

Tom Gill

Opening Up Tomorrow: Eastern Japan Research on Buraku/Discrimination Issues, 132 41-54, Mar, 2022 Invited
Sudden Exile, Sudden Wealth: Fukushima's Nuclear Aristocracy

Annual of the Institute for International Studies, (23) 79-94, Oct, 2020
Day of Harmony, Day of Strife: The Padstow Obby Oss Festival in Southwest England

Annualof the Institute for International Studies, (22) 57-66, Oct, 2019
Japan's New Wave Rightists: Exploring the Action Conservative Movement

Social Science Japan Journal, 21(2) 175-257, Aug, 2018 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
Japanese Art: Critical and Primary Sources

Apr, 2018
Reasons to be Cheerful about the Role of Japanese Anthropology in a Globalizing Discipline

Gill Tom

Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology, 16 113-119, Feb, 2016
Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan by Joseph D. Hankins (University of California Press) (review)

Social Science Japan Journal, 19(1), Jan, 2016
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Life of a Japanese Day Laborer

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13(34), Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Life of a Japanese Day Laborer

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13(34), Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Life of a Japanese Day Laborer

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13(34), Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Life of a Japanese Day Laborer

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13(34), Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Life of a Japanese Day Laborer

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13(34), Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Life of a Japanese Day Laborer

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13(34), Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Life of a Japanese Day Laborer

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13(34), Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Life of a Japanese Day Laborer

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13(34), Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Life of a Japanese Day Laborer

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13(34), Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Life of a Japanese Day Laborer

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13(34), Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Life of a Japanese Day Laborer

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13(34), Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Life of a Japanese Day Laborer

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13(34), Aug, 2015 Peer-reviewed

Books and Other Publications

Fukushima Nuclear Accident Victims: An Anthropology of Suffering and Hope:

Edited by Takuya Tsujiuchi and Tom Gill (Role: Joint editor)

Akashi Shoten, Oct, 2022 (ISBN: 9784750354699)
民俗学がわかる事典

新谷尚紀(編) (Role: Contributor, 日英のバレンタインデーはどのような違いがあるか)

角川書店, Aug, 2022
How to Be a Refugee: Life Lessons Learned by One Who Escaped the Holocaust

By Irene Gill, edited by Tom Gill (Role: Editor, Editing whole book)

Caseroom Books, Aug, 2022
RUHUMAN: The Typewriter Art of Keith Armstrong

Barrie Tullett and Tom Gill (Role: Editor)

The Caseroom Press, Apr, 2022
Everyday Affordance

Kyototto Books, Oct, 2020 Peer-reviewed
Understanding Japanese Society (5th edition)

Joy Hendry (Role: Contributor, From the Field: The Great Eastern Japan Disaster of 2011: How it damaged social control and social trust)

Routledge, Jul, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer

Lexington Books, Mar, 2015 (ISBN: 9781498511988)
"Kazuko Tsurumi on Minakata Kumagusu"

(Role: Joint author)

Japanime, Apr, 2014
‘This Spoiled Soil: Place, People and Community in an Irradiated Village in Fukushima Prefecture.'In Japan Copes with Catastrophe: Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster of March 2011

Tom Gill, Brigitte Steger and David Slater eds. (Role: Contributor)

Peter Lang, Oct, 2013 (ISBN: 9783034309226)
Japan Copes with Calamity: Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011

ブリギッテ・シテーガー, デイビッド・H・スレーター (Role: Editor)

Oct, 2013 (ISBN: 9783034309226)
Everyday Affordance: The World of Kimitsu Nishikawa, the day-labouring philosopher of Kotobuki-cho

Kyototto Publishing, Mar, 2013 (ISBN: 9784990263744)
『東日本大震災の人類学――津波、原発事故と被災者たちの「その後」』

トム・ギル, ブリギッテ・シテーガ, デビッド・スレイター編 (Role: Joint author)

人文書院, Mar, 2013
Recreating Japanese Men

Edited by Sabine Fruhstuck and Anne Walthall (pp.177-200). (Role: Joint author, Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan: The Meanings of Self-Reliance for Homeless Men.)

Dec, 2011 Peer-reviewed
Japan’s Homeless: Whose Problem?

(Role: Joint author)

London: Routledge/Curzon, Feb, 2005
英語の寄せ場文献

(Role: Joint author)

東京：れんが書房新社, May, 2004
不安定労働とホームレス――都市の産物

(Role: Joint author)

東京：東京大学出版会, Feb, 2004
Unconventional Moralities, Tolerance and Containment in Urban Japan

(Role: Joint author)

London: Berghan Books, Feb, 2001
Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Japanese Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan

New York: SUNY Press(ニューヨーク州立大学出版), Feb, 2001
Yoseba and Ninpudashi： Changing Patterns of Employment on the Fringes of the Japanese Economy.

(Role: Joint author)

Trans Pacific Press, Sep, 2000
Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan

ed. J.S. Eades, Tom Gill, Harumi Befu. (Role: Joint author)

Trans Pacific Press, Sep, 2000

Presentations

The academic legacy of Harumi Befu and Mark Bookman

A brief speech outlining the academic legacy of Harumi Befu and Paul Bookman, two recently deceased members of AJJ in whose name we have launched prizes for the best presentations by junior scholars at AJJ conferences.

Anthropology of Japan in Japan 2023 Annual Conference, Dec 3, 2023, Anthropology of Japan in Japan
On-line Day Labouring in Japan Today

Tom Gill

17th International Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies, Aug 20, 2023, European Association of Japanese Studies
In Memoriam Harumi Befu

Anthropology of Japan in Japan 2022 Annual Conference, Dec 3, 2022, Anthropology of Japan in Japan
Japanese Digital Day Laborers

VSJF Conference 2022 Deviance and Norms in Times of Change in Japan, Nov 20, 2022, University of Zurich
ザ・プルホープ・カレッジの独特な綱引き伝統を人類学的に検証

明治学院大学国際学部附属研究所フォーラム, Oct 12, 2022, 明治学院大学国際学部附属研究所
Sudden Exile, Sudden Wealth -- Fukushima's Nuclear Aristocracy in Exile

Public lecture, Nov 17, 2021, University of California at Santa Barbara Invited
Purity and Danger in Japanese Religion and Everyday Life

Special Lecture, Oct 28, 2021, Hope College Invited
Rebutting the Ramseyer Paper: From the Standpoint of an English-language Researcher

Eastern Japan Buraku Liberation Research Institute Regular Symposium, Jun 13, 2021, Eastern Japan Buraku Liberation Research Institute
Human relations between researchers and victims when disasters happen

Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Hazard Symposium, Jun 12, 2021, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Invited
A New Form of Society Mediated by Memory and Memorials

55th Annual Conference of the Japan Association for Cultural Anthropology, May 29, 2021, Japan Association for Cultural Anthropology
DOYAGAI: Japan's Skid Row

Public lecture, Oct 18, 2019, Hokkaido University Faculty of Media and Communication Invited
Communities under stress: How disasters change community life-ways

Anthropology of Japan in Japan, Apr 28, 2018
Fukushima's Voluntary and Compulsory Evacuees and How compensation policy has created two castes among victims of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

24th Annual Japan Studies Association Conference, Jan 4, 2018
Japan's New Hard Right: Addressing the Action Conservative Movement

Public lecture, Sep 28, 2017, University of Zurich Invited
Sudden Exile, Sudden Wealth: Local Human Effects of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

European Association of Japanese Studies, Aug 30, 2017, Universidad Nova de Lisboa
Doya-gai: Japan's Skid Row

Public lecture, Feb 15, 2017, Lakeland College Japan Invited
On the Loneliness of the Nuclear Aristocracy

Joint East Asian Studies Conference, Sep 9, 2016, School of Oriental and African Studies
Exile and Compensation: Five Years in the Lives of Fukushima Refugees

Fukushima University Study Group, Jun 4, 2016, Fukushima University Invited
Fukushima and Furusato: Rural Community after Nuclear Disaster

Public lecture, Mar 18, 2016, Temple University Japan Invited
Public Anthropology of the 3.11 East Japan Disaster: Focusing on Fukushima

East Asian Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Oct 3, 2015, National Chengchi University, Taipei

Professional Memberships

Jan, 2012 - Present

Japan Society of Cultural Anthropology
2005 - Present

Asian Studies Conference in Japan
2000 - Present

American Anthropological Association
1996 - Present

日本寄せ場学会
1996 - Present

Japan Anthropology Workshop

Works

RUHUMAN: The Typewriter Art of Keith Armstrong

Sep, 2023 - Oct, 2023 Artistic work
放射能と「周辺地域の知恵」

Dec, 2012 Other
Demographic Change and Inequality in Japan, ed. Sawako Shirahase (Translated book)

Dec, 2011 Other
民衆が語る貧困大国アメリカ――不自由で不平等な福祉小国の歴史（書評）

Aug, 2011 Other
Shot by Both Sides, by Meisei Goto (Translated novel)

Nov, 2008 Other
Catch-up Industrialization: The Trajectory and Prospects of Asian Economies, by Akira Suehiro (Translated book)

Aug, 2008 Other
David Ambaras, Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (Review).

Jun, 2008 Other
Gesine Foljanty-Jost, ed. Juvenile Delinquency in Japan: Reconsidering the ‘Crisis’(Review)

Oct, 2007 Other
On Day Laboring and Homelessness in Contemporary Japan (Review essay)

Sep, 2007 Other
The Hundred Yen Singer, by Naomi Suenaga (Translated novel)

Aug, 2007 Other
Lonny E. Carlile, Divisions of Labor: Globality, Ideology, and War in the Shaping of the Japanese Labor Movement (Review)

Sep, 2006 Other
Tokyo Tango, by Rika Yokomori (Translated novel)

Aug, 2006 Other
The Controversy on Homeless People in Japan: Preface.

Apr, 2004 Other
Labor Trends: Japan Versus Homelessness -- Public Parks and River Banks

Aug, 2003 Other
Glasser, Irene & Rae Bridgman, Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness (Review)

Jun, 2003 Other
Michael Rowe, Crossing the Border: Encounters Between Homeless People and Outreach Workers. (Review).

Nov, 2002 Other
Robert Desjarlais, Shelter Blues：Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless (Review)

May, 2002 Other
John Lie, Multiethnic Japan (Review).

Sep, 2001 Other
Yoko Sellek, Migrant Labour in Japan (Review).

Jun, 2001 Other
The Lives of Young Koreans in Japan by Yasunori Fukuoka (Translated book)

Apr, 2000 Other

Research Projects

「都市的なるもの」とは何か?

1998 - 2001
What is urbanism?

1998 - 2001
共同研究:男性論

1997 - 1999
Joint Research on Masculinity

1997 - 1999
現代日本の下層労働者・ホームレス問題
Lower-class workers and homelessness in contemporary Japan