My Publications
The local is global. My projects explore local historical experiences as embedded in a web of social and environmental connections across Asia and the Pacific. Here, you may find a list of publications representative of my palette of interests, reaching from cartography, science and Orientalism to geopolitics and postcolonial theory.
Publications
- What Japan’s Past Disasters Can Teach about the Age of Climate Change
- Early Modern Japan and the Problem of “Drugs”
- The Kuroshio Frontier: Business, State and Environment in the Making of Japan’s Pacific
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2021/11/14小笠原諸島探検と近代科学 [The Exploration of the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands and Modern Science]
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2021/09/03Currents and Oceanic Geographies of Japan’s Unending Frontier
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90d35885ef6157b1a09de834ed01d292.pdf – Downloaded 1949 times – 1.83 MB - Adventures on the Maritime Frontier: Minamoto no Tametomo on the Island of Women
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2019/07/21Mapping the Forgotten Colony: the Ogasawara Islands and the Tokugawa Pivot to the Pacific
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2018/06/212018/06 幕末、明治:19世紀ジュネーヴに於ける日本研究 [Bakumatsu, Meiji: Japanese Studies in Geneva in the Late 19th Century]
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Rüegg-2018_Geneve_web.pdf – Downloaded 1632 times – 622.28 KB - Aimé Humbert: Wertvorstellungen eines Bourgeois und das Japan der Bakumatsu-Zeit [Aimé Humbert, Value Concepts of a Bourgeois and Bakumatsu Japan]
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2015/03/21Challenges of Japanese Studies in 19th century Europe
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2014/01/20スイス・ロマンシュ語入門:文化誌 [Introduction to the Romansh Language of Switzerland: Cultural History]
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Asia Society 2024
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Asia Society of Switzerland 'Talk at the Library' series talk on the question "What Japan's Past Disasters Can Teach About the Age of Climate Change," 21 March 2024.
How can Japan’s long history of coping with disaster help understand the challenges of living in a world of shifting environmental risks? How will climate change reshape landscapes and economies? And why is a multi-disciplinary approach that puts scientific inquiry in a conversation with the humanities, essential for navigating the challenges of shifting environments? A historian's reflections on past experiences with future problems.
Talk EAJS 2021
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2021 EAJS Conference Talk “The Idea of Oceanic History and its Conceptual Implications for Modern Japan”
This talk introduces the idea of oceanic history and its applications to modern Japan. It argues that the ocean was not only a place of historical encounters off shore, but an ecosystem with a geography of its own within which Japan’s modern froniters developed. These ideas are discussed in more detail in my article “Currents and Oceanic Geographies of Japan’s Unending Frontier” in the Journal of Pacific History (3/2021).