| Project/Area Number |
15320118
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Human geography
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| Research Institution | Nara Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
YOSHIDA Yoko Nara Women's University, faculty of letters, associate professor, 文学部, 助教授 (70265198)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OSHIRO Naoki Kobe University, faculty of letters, associate professor, 文学部, 助教授 (00274407)
FUKUDA Tamami Osaka Prefecture University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, associate professor, 人間社会学部, 助教授 (80285311)
KAGEYAMA Honami Sugiyama Jogakuen University, School of Cross-Cultural Studies, associate professor, 国際コミュニケーション学部, 助教授 (00302993)
KATO Masahiro University of Marketing and Distribution Science, faculty of commerce, associate professor, 商学部, 助教授 (30330484)
YOSHIDA Michiyo Setsunan Uniiversty, Faculty of Foreign Studies, lecturer, 外国語学部, 専任講師 (40368395)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2005)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥9,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥2,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥2,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥4,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000)
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| Keywords | (relative) space / place / power / women / gender / analysis with feminist perspective / urban space / Okinawa, Japan |
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| Research Abstract |
The base of this research is our last result. (Term of project 2000-2002, Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research (B) (1)Analysis of geographical spaces from the viewpoint of gender, Head investigator : YOSHIDA Yoko, Project number : 12480016) In our last research project, we adopted gender and feminist viewpoint for geography and examined that spaces are always produced and reproduced by gender. Based on our result, the main purpose of this research is to show various factors including gender (in other words, power relations) which influence the production and reproduction of spaces. Because the historical context of Okinawa is very different from the Japanese mainland('hondo'), it is easy to grasp power relations being reflected in the urban space of Okinawa.
YOSHIDA Yoko and KATO studied what kind of political power relations influenced pleasure areas (Kanraku-gai) where it was formed in the urban space of Okinawa in the postwar reconstruction term, by using the newspaper accounts in th
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ose days. KANDA paid attention to the sightseeing in Okinawa of the prewar term. He made sure that the gendered imaginative geography which male sightseer from hondo had reflected on Tsuji red-right district and this district strengthened a character as tourist space for men. OSHIRO did field work on Hawaiian settlers from Okinawa in Honolulu. He focused on the construction of their identity which was rooted in 'their place'. FUKUDA selected three museums where collect materials of Okinawa Battle. She pointed out each person's memories of the last war are displayed as whole memory or local memory of the area in these museums. YOSHIDA Michiyo paid attention to the migrant works from Okinawa to 'hondo', and explained the economic system over these workers. In addition, she exposed the existence of powers which include Okinawa into the external labor market of hondo.
Okinawa in the prewar term was being seen as others from hondo, and in the postwar reconstruction term U.S.Armed Forces exploited Okinawa economically and politically and the bodies of Okinawa women, too. Power relations (including gender) are being reflected in the geographical space, Okinawa. We could show it (thought it was a part) in this research project. Less
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