Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Japanese Studies)
GERSTER Julia
Organization
Research Division
- Risk Evaluation and Disaster Mitigation Research Division
- Disaster Humanities and Social Science Division
- Disaster Medical Science Division
- Practical Research and Collaboration Division
- Endowed Research Division
- Joint Research Division
- Co-creation Center for Disaster Resilience
- Global Centre for Disaster Statistics
- Kesennuma Satellite Office
- Public Relations Office
- Administration Office
- Research Subject(s)
- My main research interests include the dynamics of social relations after disasters, recovery processes, the handling of negative heritage as well as identity and community building.
- Key Words
- Social recovery / negative heritage / identity building / collective identity / disaster risk education
- Selected Works
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Gerster, Julia: Coding: Mapping the Mountains of Ethnographic Post-Disaster Data. In: Reiher, Cornelia and Kottmann, Nora (eds): Studying Japan: Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods, Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020, forthcoming)
Gerster, Julia and Morokhova, Natalia. Picturing Translocal Matters in a Mobile World. Photography as a method of ethnographic research at a Japanese gathering in Berlin. Contemporary Japan (2020)
Gerster, Julia. Beneath the invisible cloud: Kamishibai after 3.11 Between Disaster Risk Reduction and Memorialization. The Amfieteater Journal of Performing Arts Theory, Vol. 7. No 1. (2019)
Gerster, Julia. Hierarchies of affectedness: Kizuna, perceptions of loss, and social dynamics in post-3.11 Japan. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. Volume 41, (2019), 101304
Gerster, Julia: The Online-Offline Nexus: Social Media and Ethnographic Fieldwork in Post-3.11 Northeast Japan. ASIEN, October 2018 (149): 14-32
- Selected Memberships
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- European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)