Numbering Code	U-LET31 37431 LJ39	Year/Term	2022 ・ Second semester
Number of Credits	2	Course Type	special lecture
Target Year		Target Student
Language	Japanese	Day/Period	Tue.2
Instructor name	KOMEIE TAISAKU (Graduate School of Letters Professor)
Outline and Purpose of the Course	This course offers a critical examination of the political, economic, and social roles of geographical knowledge in modern Japan. Reviewing recent arguments on geographical representation and discourse in historical and cultural geography, this course will help students analyse various kinds of knowledge acquired from maps, land surveys, travel writings, topographical descriptions, academic research, and historical sites. The course focuses mainly on the Korean Peninsula and makes references to other Japanese colonies as well.
Course Goals	This class will help students understand the historical roles of geographical knowledge, criticize its political importance, and understand the basic materials on the historical roles of geographical knowledge.
Schedule and Contents	Part I: Geographical knowledge in the Modern World 1. Historical geography and the linguistic turn 2. Orientalism and imaginative geographies 3. Historical geography and imperialism Part II: A genealogy of Korean imaginative geographies 4. Korean geographical images in early modern Japan 5. Korean geographical images and compilation of Korean topography in modern Japan Part III: Mapping the Colony and Spatial Understandings 6. Land survey and mapping of Korea 7. Mapping forest resources Part IV: Academic Knowledge and Colonialism 8. Mobilizing academic knowledge and swidden agriculture 9. "Intellectual conquest" of colonial Korea Part V: Historical sites and experiences 10. Historical sites and Japanese colonial tourism 11. The making and experience of historical sites 12. Myths around ancient conquests and colonial Korea 13. Colonial tourism to imperial peripheries Part VI: Imaginative Geographies of Imperial Japan 14. Spatial connotation of the concept of "modern times" 15. Feedback
Evaluation Methods and Policy	Reaction papers (30%) and a term report (70%).
Course Requirements	None
Study outside of Class (preparation and review)	Students are encouraged to develop their interests by reading the literature referred to in the course.
Textbooks	Textbooks/References	Not used
References, etc.	Key Concepts in Historical Geography, Morrissey, J. et al, (SAGE Publications), ISBN:978-1412930444 The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge, Agnew, J & Livingstone, D. N. , (SAGE Publications), ISBN:978-1412910811 Mori to Hi no Kankyoshi: Kinsei, Kindai Nihon no Yakihata to Shokusei (An Environmental History of Forest and Fire: Swidden Agriculture and Vegetation in Early Modern) and Modern Japan, Komeie, T., (Shibunkaku Shuppan), ISBN:978-4784219735