Professor Sho Konishi
Associate Professor in Modern Japanese History
St Antony's College
Research Interests
- Religious, scientific, cultural and intellectual history
- Transnational History(Russia and East Asia in particular)
- History of global humanitarianism and symbiosis
I have recently completed an article on symbiotic nature and survival politics and another on the emergence of the Red Cross and humanitarianism in Japan. My book on anarchist modernity turns our conceptions of modern history of Japan upside down from non-state transnational perspectives. I am also currently working on the history of religion and virtue, a transnational intellectual history of revolutionary losers. My other publications have covered a broad range of themes, such as linguistic democracy, microbiology, entomology, anarchism, agrarian and ecological thought, and art. They are on the whole a cohesive attempt to challenge some of the most established conceptual contours in the historiography of modern Japan. They offer new concepts, theory, and methods for doing modern intellectual and transnational history of Japan.
Publications
Japan's Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm
Olga V. Solovieva and Sho Konishi
The Russian cultural presence in Japan after the Meiji Revolution was immense. Indeed, Japanese cultural negotiations with Russian intellectuals and Russian literature, art, theology and political thought, formed an important basis for modern Japanese transnational intellectual, cultural, literary, and artistic production.
DPhil Students
I would like to hear from potential DPhil students regarding: Japanese history; Transnational history; Nonwestern perspectives on global history & Art history