Dr Natsuko Akagawa
Faculty Fellow Sem. 1, 2019
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
+61 7 336 57185
Dr Natsuko Akagawa is a lecturer in the Japanese Discipline in the School of Languages and Cultures.
During her Fellowship, Natsuko will finalise her contracted co-authored book manuscript, Central Sulawesi in the Shadow of Empire: Development, Religion and Identity, for which she has completed extensive archival work. The book examines twentieth century Japanese and Dutch colonial development policies and ethnic heritage in eastern Indonesia.
Natsuko will also make advances on a new project, developing a book proposal and sample chapters for a new monograph on ‘difficult heritage’ and memory of the wartime destruction of Japanese cities. This proposed book will bring together recent scholarship on issues of memory, emotion, trauma and dark heritage, and will have implications for current research on memory studies and commemoration. The project links with the theme of 'Narrating Trauma' that Natsuko has been developing as a Strategic Research Initiative with colleagues in the School of Languages and Cultures and will build on and extend her internationally recognised scholarship on heritage, identity and politics.
Researcher biography
Books
Akagawa, Natsuko (2015). Heritage conservation and Japan's cultural diplomacy. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315886664
Akagawa, Natsuko (2015). Heritage conservation in Japan’s cultural diplomacy: heritage, national identity and national interest. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315886664
Chan, Wai Fai, Akagawa, Natsuko, Au, Joselyn and Chu, Ka Man (2000). XI RI FENG QING: MAN HUA AOMEN JIE [Those with the days...]. Macau: 亞正萬象制作 [A Cheng Man Cheong Chai Chok].
Book Chapters
Akagawa, Natsuko (2022). Introduction. Conservation of architectural heritage: embodiment of identity. (pp. xii-xii) edited by Antonella Versaci, Claudia Cennamo and Natsuko Akagawa. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Akagawa, Natsuko (2021). Preface. Conservation of architectural heritage. (pp. vii-vii) edited by Versaci, Antonella, Bougdah, Hocine, Akagawa, Natsuko and Cavalagli, Nicola. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Akagawa, Natsuko (2021). Lust, love and curiosity: the emotional threads in the Dutch encounter with an exotic east. Matters of engagement: emotions, identity and cultural contact in the premodern world. (pp. 73-94) edited by Daniela Hacke, Claudia Jarzebowski and Hannes Ziegler. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429488689-6
Akagawa, Natsuko (2020). ‘Difficult heritage’, silent witnesses: dismembering traumatic memories, narratives and emotions of firebombing in Japan. Places of traumatic memory: a global context. (pp. 37-59) edited by Amy L. Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_3
Hubbell, Amy L., Akagawa, Natsuko, Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Pohlman, Annie (2020). Preface. Places of Traumatic Memory: A Global Context. (pp. v-vi) edited by Amy L. Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4
Hubbell, Amy L., Rojas-Lizana, Sol , Akagawa, Natsuko and Pohlman, Annie (2020). Acknowledging trauma in a global context: narrative, memory and place. Places of traumatic memory: a global context. (pp. 1-12) edited by Amy Lynn Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_1
Akagawa, Natsuko (2019). Authorised Heritage Discourse. The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences. (pp. 117-120) edited by López Varela, S.. Chichester, West Sussex United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell.
Akagawa, Natsuko (2019). Batik as a creative industry: political, social and economic use of intangible heritage. Safeguarding intangible heritage: practices and politics. (pp. 135-154) edited by Akagawa, Natsuko and Smith, Laurajane. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Akagawa, Natsuko (2019). National identity, culinary heritage and UNESCO: Japanese washoku. Safeguarding intangible heritage: practices and politics. (pp. 200-217) edited by Natsuko Akagawa and Laurajane Smith. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429507137-13
Akagawa, Natsuko (2019). Where do we draw a line?: heritage, identity and place in global heritage. Architecture on the borderline: boundary politics and built space. (pp. 257-274) edited by Anoma Pieris. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315103419
Akagawa, Natsuko and Smith, Laurajane (2019). The practices and politics of safeguarding. Safeguarding intangible heritage: practices and politics. (pp. 1-13) edited by Natsuko Akagawa and Laurajane Smith. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Akagawa, Natsuko (2016). Intangible heritage and embodiment: Japan's influence on global heritage discourse. A companion to heritage studies. (pp. 69-86) edited by William Logan, Mairead Nic Craith and Ullrich Kockel. Chichester, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell.
Akagawa, Natsuko and Cote, Joost (2015). The Pacific war experience of Dutch Eurasian civilians in Java, 1942-1948. The Pacific War: Aftermaths, Remembrance and Culture. (pp. 110-132) edited by Christina Twomey and Ernest Koh. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Akagawa, Natsuko (2014). Ukiyo-E in Memory. UKIYO-E: Japanese prints of the floating world. (pp. 9-15) Crawley, WA, Australia: Berndt Museum, University of Western Australia.
Akagawa, N. and Sirisrisak, T. (2013). Cultural rights and conservation of Old Bangkok. Protecting Siam's Heritage. (pp. 149-166) edited by Chris Baker. Seattle, WA, United States: University of Washington Press.
Sirisrisak, Tiamsoon and Akagawa, Natsuko (2012). Concept and practice of cultural landscape protection in Thailand. Managing cultural landscapes. (pp. 173-191) edited by Ken Taylor and Jane L. Lennon. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203128190
Smith, Laurajane and Akagawa, Natsuko (2009). Introduction. Intangible Heritage. (pp. 1-9) edited by Laurajane Smith and Natsuko Akagawa. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203884973
Akagawa, Natsuko (2000). A Photo Booth. Those With The Days by Chan Wai Fai. (pp. 1-2) Macau, China: A Cheng Man Cheong Chai Chok.
Journal Articles
Akagawa, Natsuko (2023). Decolonising heritage: safeguarding intangible-living heritage in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Historic Environment, 33 (1-2), 14-27.
Akagawa, Natsuko and Johnston, Chris (2023). Introduction to Intangible cultural heritage in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific . Historic Environment, 33 (1-2), 4-7.
Dianati, Seb, Uchiyama, Akiko and Akagawa, Natsuko (2022). Applications of technologies in T&I courses in Australia: perceptions of T&I academics. Journal of Translation and Language Studies, 3 (2), 50-80. doi: 10.48185/jtls.v3i2.511
Dianati, Seb, Taptamat, Nantana, Uchiyama, Akiko and Akagawa, Natsuko (2022). Factors that influence Translation and Interpreting technology adoption by university instructors, through the lens of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Journal of Translation and Language Studies, 3 (1), 12-28. doi: 10.48185/jtls.v3i1.439
Akagawa, Natsuko (2022). Conservation of cultural heritage in a changing world. Anthropos, 117, 278-280.
Akagawa, Natsuko and Nagatomo, Jun (2020). Heritage and Digital Medium. International Studies , 9 (1), 219-221.
Akagawa, Natsuko (2020). Architectural conservation in Asia: national experiences and practice. International Journal of Cultural Property, 27 (1), 157-160. doi: 10.1017/S0940739120000065
Akagawa, Natsuko (2017). Warisan Budaya, Identitas, dan Kepentingan Nasional di Jepang dan Korea [Cultural Heritage, Identity, and National Interest in Japan and Korea]. Prisma: Lembaga Penelitian, Pendidikan dan Penerangan Ekonomi dan Sosial, 36, 71-84.
Akagawa, Natsuko (2017). Reconsidering cultural heritage in East Asia. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 23 (6), 605-606. doi: 10.1080/13527258.2017.1287120
Akagawa, Natsuko (2017). The book of Yokai: mysterious creatures of Japanese folklore. Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies, 76 (Spring), 24-25.
Akagawa, Natsuko (2016). Japan and the rise of heritage in cultural diplomacy: where are we heading?. Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, 13 (1), 125-139. doi: 10.5749/futuante.13.1.0125
Akagawa, Natsuko (2016). Rethinking the global heritage discourse - overcoming 'East' and 'West'?. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 22 (1), 14-25. doi: 10.1080/13527258.2015.1068213
Akagawa, Natsuko (2015). Heritage management in Korea and Japan: The politics of antiquity and identity. Museum Anthropology Review: Journal of Museum and Material Cultural Studies, 9 (1-2), 114-116. doi: 10.14434/mar.v9i1-2.19891
Akagawa, Natsuko (2014). A heritage of ruins: the ancient sites of Southeast Asia and their conservation. Southeast Asian Studies, 3 (3), 678-680.
Akagawa, Natsuko (2014). Intangible heritage and the museum: new perspectives on cultural preservation by Marilena Alivizatou. American Anthropologist, 116 (4), 862-863. doi: 10.1111/aman.12162_1
Akagawa, Natsuko (2013). International nature of modernity: International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constructing kokusai kenchiku. International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Newsletter, 65, 18-19.
Akagawa, Natsuko and Sirisrisak, Tiamsoon (2008). Cultural landscapes in Asia and the Pacific: Implications of the world heritage convention. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 14 (2), 176-191. doi: 10.1080/13527250701853408
Sirisrisak, Tiamsoon and Akagawa, Natsuko A (2007). Cultural landscape in the World Heritage List: Understanding on the gap and categorisation. City and Time, 2 (3:2).
Conference Paper
Akagawa, Natsuko and Sirisrisak, Tiamsoon (2005). Intangible heritage in urban planning process, case study: Chao Phraya Riverscape, Thailand. Cities for People: The 8th International Asian Planning Schools Association Congress, School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, 11-14 September 2005. Malaysia: