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The Expansion of Territorialism

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K13623
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 06020:International relations-related
Research InstitutionKanazawa University (2021-2022)
Hosei University (2019-2020)

Principal Investigator

Watanabe Atsuko  金沢大学, GS教育系, 准教授 (10821837)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Keywordsterritory / space / concept / history / Japan / politics / international politics / intellectual history / 領土 / 帝国 / Global IR / 比較政治思想 / 概念史 / 国際秩序 / 尖閣諸島 / 日本政治思想 / state / conceptual history
Outline of Research at the Start

国家の基本概念である「領土」は、グローバル化の進展により重要性は低下すると予想されてきたが、テロリズムや領土紛争などに見られるように逆に存在感を増し、概念的見直しが進んでいる。本研究は、初期に成立した非西洋における西欧型近代国家である日本の同概念の受容と発展の歴史を、国内史の先行研究と英語圏の先端研究の成果をつなぎ合わせ、近代国際社会の世界的展開における日本の関与をグローバル概念史の視点から再検証する。発表は英語で行い、国際的な議論への参加を目指す。これにより、国境が希薄化する一方、国境紛争が激化する現代的矛盾への示唆を探るとともに、社会科学の欧米中心主義、国家中心主義の乗り越えを模索する。

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Has globalization made social space more homogeneous or more diverse? This study contributes to this question by identifying the reception of the concept of "territory" in Japan. Territory spatially delimits human society and fundamentally defines our behavior. This concept expanded from Europe with the modern state system, and the world was spatially unified as an apparently "international society". However, research on how territory was accepted and how it redefined human behavior in cultures such as Japan, which originally had different socio-spatial concepts, has not progressed. In recent years, research on the history of concepts across cultures has advanced in international politics in the English-speaking world, and this research has yielded many results, especially in terms of theory, including articles in international peer-reviewed journals. This has also led to overseas collaborative research.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

この研究は、近年、国際政治学のみならず社会科学で広く関心を呼んでいる「知識の産出」についての貢献を目指したものである。日本は明治維新以来、西洋の知識を吸収し、アジアの中でいち早く独立国家となった国である。日本人が知識をどのように吸収してきたのかという問題は、国内では様々な形で取り組まれてきた古い問題であるが、この問いはこれまで、海外の研究の文脈の中に、特に現代の国際政治の問題を考えると言う意義を持って、位置付けられることはほとんどなかった。この研究はこのことを目指し、それを英語で研究、発表することにより、グローバルな知の循環における日本の位置を再考した。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (23 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (3 results) Journal Article (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (17 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 16 results,  Invited: 2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Groningen University/Cambridge University/Erfurt University(オランダ)

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Coventry University(英国)

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Coventry University(英国)

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] A Way to Transcend Boundaries: Pluralist Theology, Shusaku Endo, and Global IR2023

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko watanabe
    • Journal Title

      Telos

      Volume: 202 Issue: 202 Pages: 84-102

    • DOI

      10.3817/0323202084

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Forum: Searching for a Global Solidarity: A Collective Auto-Ethnography of Early-Career Women Researchers in the Asia-Pacific2023

    • Author(s)
      Agarwal Amya、Chen Ching-Chang、Choi Shine、Cruz Frances Antoinette、Hoo Chiew-Ping、Watanabe Atsuko
    • Journal Title

      International Studies Perspectives

      Volume: 24(1) Issue: 1 Pages: 88-114

    • DOI

      10.1093/isp/ekac007

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Un(COIL)ing the Pandemic: Active and Affective Learning in Times of Covid-192021

    • Author(s)
      Violeta Cotoman, Annabel Davies, Nanako Kawagoe, Hana Niihashi, Aisha Rahman, Yuki Tomita, Atsuko Watanabe, and Felix Roesch
    • Journal Title

      PS: Political Science & Politics

      Volume: 55 Issue: 1 Pages: 188-192

    • DOI

      10.1017/s1049096521001050

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Enigmatic Raison d’Etat: the International and the Multiple Contextualisations of the Reason of State in Japan2023

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      International Studies Association Annual Convention 2023
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Enigmatic Raison d’Etat: the International and the Multiple Contextualisations of the Reason of State in Japan2022

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      Pan-European Conference on International Relations
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] What are We Talking about When We Talk about the Indo-Pacific?2022

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      Pan-European Conference on International Relations
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Enigmatic Raison d’Etat: the International and the Multiple Contextualisations of the Reason of State in Japan2022

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      9th European Workshop in International Studies
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Expansion of What? A Conceptual History of Empire in Japan2022

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      Historical Encounters in International relations: Thinking beyond 1942)
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Plenary Roundtable: The Interconnected Worlds of the Past and the Present: Co-constituting the International2022

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      Pan-European Conference on International Relations
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] The Expansion of What? A Conceptual History of Empire in Japan2021

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      International Studies Associtation Annual Convention 2022
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] How East Asians Incorporated Western Geographic-legal Concepts: A Case Study2021

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      26th IPSA Virtual World Congress of Political Science
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Are Boundaries Surmountable? Rethinking History for a Global IR2021

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      Pan-European Conference on International Relations 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] How East Asians Incorporated Western Geographic-legal Concepts: A Case Study2021

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      Pan-European Conference on International Relations 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Masao Maruyama and the Limit of Historicisation2021

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      Ryukoku RIISC GARC Symposium
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Are boundaries surmountable? Rethinking history for Global IR2020

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe & Felix Roesch
    • Organizer
      Millenium Conference
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Two Global Empires without Colonies? Japanese and American Geopolitics2019

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      Intellectual History and International Relations workshop
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] How East Asians Incorporated Western Geographic-Legal Concepts: A Case Study2019

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      ISA Asia-Pacific Conference 2019, Singapore
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] How East Asians Incorporated Western Geographic-Legal Concepts: A Case Study2019

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      13th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Sofia
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Two Global Empires without Colonies? Japanese and US Geopolitics2019

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      13th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Sofia
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] How East Asians Incorporated Western Geographic-Legal Concepts: A Case Study2019

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      2019 EARCAG-GPE Workshop
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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