Assoc Prof Chris McMorran

Department of Japanese Studies

Tel: (65) 6516-5575
Email: mcmorran@nus.edu.sg
Office: AS8-05-08

Chris McMorran is Associate Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at NUS. He is a cultural geographer of contemporary Japan. His research analyzes how identity and meaning are built, practiced, experienced, and read in cultural landscapes. He has studied these processes through the lenses of tourism and labor, which has led to publications in Mobilities (2015: Selected for reprint in Mobilities (Critical Concepts in Built Environment), Ole B. Jensen, ed), Landscape Journal (2014), Area (2012), Tourism Geographies (2008), and in a volume on Rethinking Japanese Feminisms (2018). This work will appear in "Last Resort: Labor, Tourism, and Identity in Japan," (under contract with University of Hawai'i Press). He has also contributed to debates on the future of area studies in EPD: Society and Space (2016) and the problematic convergence of civil society and tourism in post-disaster volunteer tourism in Japan Forum (2017).