Historical Studies on the Development of Social Movements for Global Solidarity in the 1970s and 80s

• Project/Area Number: 15K03878
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Musashi University
• Principal Investigator: MATUI Takasi 武蔵大学, 社会学部, 准教授 (70710341)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 道場 親信 和光大学, 現代人間学部, 准教授 (60287951)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
• Keywords: 社会運動 / 国際連帯 / NGO / 運動史 / ネットワーク / インタビュー / アーカイブ / ＮＧＯ / アーカイヴ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aimed to grasp the actual situations of the social movements for global solidarity in Japan in the 1970s and 80s. Through the interviews and taking oral history from different persons who have committed in the solidarity movements, the research is able to get results as follows.
(1)　Valuable oral history gives the more vivid picture to existing researches and they are fully documented now. Those interviews would be openly accessible in future.
(2)　It became clear that the global solidarity movements came from originally in late 1960’s movements and influenced to different movements inside and outside of Japan very positively.