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Biography
Adam Broinowski is an Honorary researcher and lecturer in the School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. As Chief Investigator for an ARC DECRA research project entitled 'Contaminated Life: 'Hibakusha' in Japan in the Nuclear Age' (DE 130100174) Adam examined the social and cultural responses to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan in the context of radiological events since 1945. He earned a PhD from the University of Melbourne and was a research fellow at the Alfred Deakiin Research Institute, Deakin University and University of Tokyo (Monbukagakusho Fellowship). His research and teaching areas include the history of empire in Asia, modern and contemporary history of Japan and East Asia, cultural and civil society politics (including the performing and screen arts in Asia), and the geopolitics of energy and the environment in the Asia-Pacific. He published a research monograph Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan: The Performing Body during and after the Cold War (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), several chapters in edited volumes (Routledge, Rowman and Littlefield, ANU Press, MCM Press) and peer-reviewed journal articles. Adam also brings significant theatre and film making experience to his scholarship and teaching.
External positions
Freelance theatre director, writer
1 Jul 2017 → …
Freelance writer, editor, researcher, analyst
1 Jul 2017 → …
Expertise Areas
- Theatre
- Director
- Writer
- Documentary film
- Researcher
- Publishing
- Editor
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Contaminated life: 'Hibakusha' in Japan in the nuclear age
Australian Research Council (ARC)
13/05/13 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
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A History of Japanese Theatre
Broinowski, A., 2018, In: Theatre Research International. 43, 2, p. 232-233Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Nuclear Power and Oil Capital in the Long Twentieth Century
Broinowski, A., 2018, Materialism and the Critique of Energy. Brent Ryan Bellamy and Jeff Diamanti (ed.). 1st ed. Chigaco: MCM Publishing Ltd., p. 197-240Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The atomic gaze and Ankoku Butoh in post-war Japan
Broinowski, A., 2018, Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War. N.A.J. Taylor, Robert Jacobs (ed.). London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 91-107ppResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Two-Way Mirror: The Significance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the U.S.-North Korea Nuclear Crisis
Broinowski, A., 2018, The Unfinished Atomic Bomb: Shadows and Reflections. David Lowe, Cassandra Atherton and Alyson Miller (ed.). Lanham: Lexington Books, p. 101-116ppResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Informal Labour, Local Citizens and the Tokyo Electric Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Crisis: Responses to Neoliberal Disaster Management
Broinowski, A., 2017, New Worlds From Below: Informal life politics and grassroots action in twenty-first century Northeast Asia. Tessa Morris-Suzuki and Eun Jeong Soh (ed.). Acton, Australia: ANU Press, p. 131-166ppResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter