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Dr Miyume Tanji

PhD in Politics (Murdoch); MA in International Relations (Australian National University); Diploma in Education (Curtin); BA in Law (Sophia University)
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    • Role:
    • Sessional Academic
    • Department:
    • Department of Social Sciences
    • Location:
    • Humanities
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266 3484
Dr. Miyume Tanji is a Research Fellow with the Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific (CASAAP).

Miyume's key research interests include: protest, social movements, identity politics, gender issues, colonialism, sustainable development and resilience in the communities living with U.S. foreign military bases in Okinawa and the Asia-Pacific region.

Teaching - Undergraduate

  • Theories of International Relations

  • International Relations in the Asia-Pacific

  • Theories of Politics, Theories of Social Movements

  • Japanese Language

  • Society and Culture in Japan

  • Japan and Okinawa

  • Minority Politics in Japan 

Publications

Books (Authored, Research)

  • Tanji, M. 2006. Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa. London: Routledge Curzon.

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

  • Tanji, M. 2009. Community resilience and sustainable development in Okinawa: Yomitan village's traumatic trajectory of war and military occupation. In People, Place and Power, 1 Edition, eds Dawn Bennett, Jaya Earnest and Miyume Tanji, 126-147. Curtin University of technology Bentley WA 6107: Black Swan Press.
  • Tanji, M. 2003. The dynamic trajectory of the post-reversion 'Okinawa Struggle': Constitution, Environment and Gender. In Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity, eds Richard Siddle and Glenn Hook, 167-187. London and New York: Routledge Curzon.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

  • Tanji, M. 2011. Human Rights and Community Development in a U.S. Army Village in Okinawa. New Community Quarterly 9(33): 5-11.
  • Tanji, M. 2010. [Okinawa Questions Military Outposts as Security for a Truly Stable Relationship of Japan and the US]. [Kan: History, Enviroment, Civilization: A Quaterly Journal on Learning and the Arts for Global Readership] 41: 207-213.
  • Tanji, M. 2010. Close Yet Distant Relations: The Politics of History Textbooks, U.S Military Bases and Trauma in Okinawa. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific N/A(24).
  • Tanji, M. 2009. Community, Resistance and Sustainability in an Okinawan Village: Yomitan. The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 1: 1-19.
  • Tanji, M. 2008. US Court Rules in the Okinawa Dugong Case. Critical Asian Studies 40(3): 475-487.

Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

  • Tanji, M. 2008. Oceanic Conference on International Studies. Oceanic Conference on Interantl Studies, 02/07/2008. Brisbane: University of Queensland.