Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Emeritus Professor at The Australian National University, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, and recipient of the 2013 Fukuoka Prize (Academic) for contributions to Asian studies. From 2013 to 2018, she held an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship. Her books include Re-inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation (1997); The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History (2005); Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan’s Cold War (2007); and Japan’s Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy (2020).
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On the Frontiers of History »
Rethinking East Asian Borders
Authored by: Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Publication date: August 2020
Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The essays in this book address these questions by starting from small places…
New Worlds from Below »
Informal life politics and grassroots action in twenty-first-century Northeast Asia
Edited by: Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Eun Jeong Soh
Publication date: March 2017
In Asia today, the grand ideologies of the past have lost their power over the popular imagination. Even in many of the region’s democracies, popular engagement in the political process faces profound challenges. Yet amidst this landscape of political disenchantment, groups of ordinary people across Asia are finding new ways to take control of their own lives, respond to threats to their physical and cultural survival, and build better futures. This collection of…
The Social Sciences in the Asian Century »
Publication date: September 2015
In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. We argue for the benefit of dialogue between the diverse theories and methods of social sciences in the region, the role of the social sciences in addressing real-world problems, the need to transcend national boundaries in addressing regional problems, and the…