Japanese diaspora in a WWII incarceration camp : archaeology of Gila River
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- "Japanese Diaspora in a WWII Incarceration Camp: Archaeology of Gila River" challenges narratives of closure and removal through an examination of the material lives of 16,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned on a Native American Reservation during WWII. Drawing from archaeological surveys conducted in collaboration with the Gila River Indian Community, as well as archival, oral historical, and ethnographic sources, it traces the connections maintained, formed, and transformed through material practices during the incarceration camp period. By weaving together these threads, I argue that the incarceration camp system reordered the social connections of the Japanese American community. I utilize community-based research methodologies to work towards building decolonized praxis in recognizing diverse community connections and Indigenous sovereignty. Through an attention to the landscape and the material, I show how the expectations of War Relocation Authority administrators were unfulfilled and incarcerees worked to safeguard individual and community health. By using the concept of diaspora to interrupt the notion of the camp, I challenge notions of isolation and control and theorize the camp as a site of connectivity.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lau-Ozawa, Koji H |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Voss, Barbara L, 1967- |
| Thesis advisor | Voss, Barbara L, 1967- |
| Thesis advisor | Chang, Gordon H |
| Thesis advisor | De León, Jason, 1977- |
| Thesis advisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Degree committee member | Chang, Gordon H |
| Degree committee member | De León, Jason, 1977- |
| Degree committee member | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Koji Lau-Ozawa. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/pb933qn3238 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Koji H Lau-Ozawa
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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