Tom Gill

Professor of social anthropology at the Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama. Educated at King’s College, Cambridge and the London School of Economics and Political Science, he has research interests that include marginal labor, homelessness, and masculinity. His publications include Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan and Japan Copes with Calamity: Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011, co-edited with Brigitte Steger and David Slater, and Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer .

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Jun 9, 2015