Associate Professor David Chapman
Japanese Program
Associate Professor
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56390
Researcher biography
David Chapman is Associate Professor and Reader in Japanese Studies at The School of Languages and Cultures, St Lucia campus, UQ. David's research interests include the cultural and social history of the marginalized in Japanese society, human rights in Japan and Asia, citizenship and national identity in Japan and surveillance and the law in Japan.
Books
Chapman, David (2016). The Bonin Islanders, 1830 to the present: narrating Japanese nationality. Lanham, MD, United States: Lexington Books.
Chapman, David (2007). Zainichi Korean identity and ethnicity. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203944813
Book Chapters
Chapman, David (2022). History and the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands: connecting Japan and the Pacific. Routledge handbook of race and ethnicity in Asia. (pp. 381-392) edited by Michael Weiner. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351246705-30
Chapman, David (2022). Meiji and the Bonin Islands. Revisiting Japan's Restoration. (pp. 109-116) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003207771-17
Chapman, David (2020). Gender and the Koseki. The Routledge companion to gender and Japanese culture. (pp. 83-91) edited by Jennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser and Mark Pendleton. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315179582-9
Chapman, David and Hayes, Carol (2020). Japan in Australia, an introduction. Japan in Australia: culture, context and connection. (pp. 4-24) edited by David Chapman and Carol Hayes. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429196485-2
Chapman, David (2016). Identifying and defining self in a changing Japan. Japan's demographic revival: rethinking migration, identity and sociocultural norms. (pp. 63-80) edited by Stephen Robert Nagy. Singapore: World Scientific Publishers. doi: 10.1142/9789814678889_0004
Chapman, David and Krogness, Karl Jakob (2014). The koseki. Japan’s household registration system and citizenship: koseki, identification and documentation. (pp. 1-18) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315889757-1
Chapman, David and Krogness, Karl Jakob (2014). The koseki. Japan's household registration system and citizenship: koseki, identification, documentation and citizenship. (pp. 1-12) edited by David Chapman and Karl Jakob Krogness. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315889757
Chapman, David (2014). Managing "strangers" and "undecidables": population registration in Meiji Japan. Japan's household registration system and citizenship: koseki, identification, documentation and citizenship. (pp. 93-110) edited by David Chapman and Karl Jakob Krogness. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315889757
Chapman, David (2013). Korean residents movement in Japan. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. (pp. 1-2) edited by David A. Snow and Donatella della Porta. Hoboken NJ United States: John Wiley and Sons. doi: 10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm321
Chapman, David (2013). Discourses of multicultural coexistence (tabunka kyosei) and the 'old-comer' Korean residents of Japan. Critical Readings on Ethnic Minorities and Multiculturalism in Japan. (pp. 479-498) edited by Richard Siddle. Leiden, Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill.
Chapman, David (2013). No More 'Aliens': Managing the familiar with the unfamiliar in Japan. Critical readings on ethnic minorities and multiculturalism in Japan. (pp. 813-829) edited by Richard Siddle. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
Chapman, David (2012). Identifying the periphery: Challenging citizenship, nationality and identity on the Ogasawara Islands. Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia. (pp. 193-211) edited by Caroline Pluss and Kwok-bun Chan. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Science + Business Media. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-2966-7_10
Chapman, David and Long, Daniel (2012). English is my home: citizenship, language and identity in the Ogasawara Islands. Language and Citizenship in Japan. (pp. 175-192) edited by Nanette Gottlieb. New York, NY, USA: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203144442
Weiner, Michael and Chapman, David (2009). Zainichi Koreans in history and memory. Japan's Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity. (pp. 162-187) edited by Weiner, Michael. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge.
Chapman, David (2007). Zainichi Korean identity and ethnicity: introduction. Zainichi Korean identity and ethnicity . edited by David Chapman. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Journal Articles
Wilkinson, Aoife and Chapman, David (2023). Mixed Japanese identities and multiculturalism. Japan Forum, 36 (2), 1-20. doi: 10.1080/09555803.2023.2268089
Bleiker, Roland, Chapman, David and Shim, David (2021). Visualising Korea: Critical Moments in History, Society and Politics. Asian Studies Review, 45 (3), 374-380. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2021.1937836
Chapman, David (2021). Visualising Korea: the politics of the statue of peace. Asian Studies Review, 45 (3), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2020.1840511
McClelland, Gwyn and Chapman, David (2020). Silences: the Catholics, the untouchables and the Nagasaki atomic bomb. Asian Studies Review, 44 (3), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2019.1692783
Toyoda, Etsuko and Chapman, David (2019). Family matters: Nippon Kaigi and keeping things normal. Japanese Studies, 39 (3), 1-20. doi: 10.1080/10371397.2019.1646097
Chapman, David (2018). Article 772 and Japan's unregistered. Japan Forum, 31 (3), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/09555803.2018.1461676
Chapman, David (2018). Divided fates: the state, race, and Korean immigrants' adaptation in Japan and the United States by Kazuko Suzuki. The Journal of Japanese Studies, 44 (2), 473-477. doi: 10.1353/jjs.2018.0065
Chapman, David (2017). Claiming the Bonin Islands: Captain Beechey's plaque. The Journal of Pacific History, 52 (4), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2017.1410600
Toyoda, Etsuko and Chapman, David (2017). Resistance and reform: discourses on marital law in Japan. Japan Forum, 29 (4), 470-495. doi: 10.1080/09555803.2017.1365748
Chapman, David (2017). Voice, Silence, and Self: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan by Christopher Bondy. Social Science Japan Journal, 20 (1), 1-3. doi: 10.1093/ssjj/jyx005
Chapman, David (2017). Britain and the Bonins: discovery, recovery and reclamation. Japan Forum, 29 (2), 154-179. doi: 10.1080/09555803.2016.1244215
Chapman, David (2015). Suburban Samurai and neighbourhood Ninja: Shintaro and postwar Australia. Japanese Studies, 35 (3), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/10371397.2015.1118619
Chapman, David (2014). Interrogating the periphery: identity, nationality, family registration and the Ogasawara Islanders. Journal of Comparative Studies in Japanese Culture, 17, 11-28.
Chapman, David, Morris Suzuki, Tessa and Stevens, Carolyn (2014). Australia–Japan relations: an alternative future. Inside Story
Chapman, David (2012). No more "Aliens": managing the familiar and the unfamiliar in Japan. The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 10 (40), 1-6.
Chapman, David (2012). Immigration and Citizenship in Japan. Asian Studies Review, 36 (3), 425-426. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2012.712648
Chapman, David (2011). Geographies of self and other: mapping Japan through the Koseki. The Asia Pacific Journal, 9 (29), 1-10.
Chapman, David (2011). Different faces, different spaces: identifying the islanders of Ogasawara. Social Science Japan Journal, 14 (2), 189-212. doi: 10.1093/ssjj/jyr003
Chapman, David (2009). Inventing subjects and sovereignty: Early history of the first settlers of the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands. The Asia - Pacific Journal : Japan Focus, 24.
Chapman, David (2008). Tama-Chan and sealing Japanese identity. Critical Asian Studies, 40 (3), 423-443. doi: 10.1080/14672710802274144
Chapman, David, Dales, Laura and Mackie, Vera (2008). "Minority women will change the world!": Perspectives on multiple discrimination in Japan. Womens Studies International Forum, 31 (3), 192-199. doi: 10.1016/j.wsif.2008.04.002
Chapman, David (2006). Beyond the colonised and the colonisers: intellectual discourse and the inclusion of Korean-Japanese women's voices. Japanese Studies, 26 (3), 353-363. doi: 10.1080/10371390600986710
Chapman, David (2006). Discourses of multicultural coexistence (Tabunka Kyosei) and the "old-comer" Korean residents of Japan. Asian Ethnicity, 7 (1), 89-102. doi: 10.1080/14631360500498593
Chapman, David (2006). Korea in Japan: Histories, Ideologies and Identities. Japanese Studies, 26 (3), 265-266. doi: 10.1080/10371390600986587
Chapman, David (2004). The third way and beyond: Zainichi Korean identity and the politics of belonging. Japanese Studies, 24 (1), 29-44. doi: 10.1080/10371390410001684697
Chapman, David and Hartley, Barbara (2000). Close encounters of the unhomely kind: negotiating identity and Japan literacy. Japanese Studies, 20 (3), 269-279. doi: 10.1080/713683788
Chapman, David and Hartley, Barbara (1999). Authentic voices: insights into a Japanese education practicum. Japanese-Language Education around the Globe, 9, 45-62.
Chapman, David (1997). Comparison of oral and e-mail discourse in Japanese as a second language. On-CALL, 11 (3), 31-39.
Chapman, David (1997). Computer mediated communication and Japanese immersion: investigating the potential. On-CALL, 11 (1), 12-18.
Chapman, David (1997). Tertiary Japanese immersion: insights through health and physical education. Babel, 32 (2), 26-30+.
Conference Paper
Dales, Laura and Chapman, David (2006). Feminisms and differences in Japan: Korean-Japanese women's activism and Japanese feminisms. OCIS 2006: 2nd Oceanic Conference on International Studies, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 5-7 July, 2006. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Department of Politicial Science, University of Melbourne.