The PWFC Works in Progress Series makes PWFC research available in advance of publication, to share preliminary findings with the larger research community and to encourage discussion among and feedback from members of the partnership. The series includes academic writing and artistic work developed as part of our Artists and Scholars in Residence Program, which is supported at the University of Victoria by the Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives and the Centre for Global Studies.
Works in Progress are pre-publication versions of creative non-fiction, poetry, visual arts, and academic papers. They’re still unfinished, but sufficiently developed to be shared. Some Works in Progress may already be under submission or in press and forthcoming elsewhere. Many are expected to eventually be chapters in PWFC books.
Generally, each Work in Progress will remain on our website for 6 months before being reserved for subsequent publication.
Please select from the following to view and download:
Work in Progress 1: A Global Story – Media Accounts of Nikkei Incarceration in the Anglophone World
Jonathan van Harmelen
Work in Progress 2: A Light to the Nations: The Catholic Church and Japanese Confinement in Canada and the United States
Greg Robinson
Work in Progress 3: Reweaving the Enemy Language into Nikkei Canadian and Brazilian Histories
Naoko Kato
Work in Progress 4: Japanese Concentration Camps: In the Agenda of Negotiations between Brazil and the United States during World War II
Monica Okamoto
Previous works:
National Apologies, Transnational Injustices: Second World War Oppression, Anti-Nikkei Persecution, and the Politics of Apology in Five Countries
Matt James, J.A. Fernandez-De-Lara-Harada, Masumi Izumi, Monica Okamoto, Jordan Stanger-Ross
What Can Transnational History Do?: On Archiving and Reading Japanese American Experiences in the “Tule Lake Stockade Diary,” 1943 – 1944
Masumi Izumi
Invoking Memories of Nikkei Oppression to Address the “War on Terror”: Constitutionalism, Authoritarianism, and the Mnemonics of Rights
Matt James
Wartime Measures: “Palinode” and Other Poems
Michael Prior
Previous works are available upon request. Please contact pwfc_office@uvic.ca
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