| Project/Area Number |
19K15931
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 41020:Rural sociology and agricultural structure-related
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| Research Institution | Research Institute for Humanity and Nature |
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Principal Investigator |
Steven McGreevy 総合地球環境学研究所, 研究部, 客員准教授 (10700172)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Keywords | Informal food / Social practice / Convival lifestyles / Sustainability / Rural livelihoods / Informal Food / Convivial lifestyles / Covivial lifestyles / Social Practice / Convivial Lifestyles / Rural Livelihoods |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
Socio-economic precarity in Japan’s shrinking society has given rise to a range of alternative lifestyles that reject contemporary ideas of work and market dependency. One common feature of these lifestyles are IFPs. Despite many modern-day pressures for them to disappear, IFPs continue to exist for a reason, but science has yet to explain why this is the case.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
During this period, writing, publication and dissemination efforts were conducted. A total of three publications connected to this research were released during the 2023-2024 period. Highlights include a contribution to the paper "Ten New Insights in Climate Science" published in Global Sustainability a co-authored with a large group of authors working on climate change. A book chapter "Through Forks and Fields: Backcasting Workshops in Japan for Designing Sustainable Local Food Systems," was published in the book Paul B. Thompson's Philosophy of Agriculture: Fields, Farmers, Forks, and Food. Two academic conference presentations, one organized session, and two invited lectures were given stemming from this research. New project funding has also resulted from these efforts.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The project has delivered many interesting outputs with strong scientific impact and there has been much interest in the research findings, as evidenced by multiple invitations to conferences and guest lectures. At the 9th International Degrowth Conference in Zagreb, I organized a special session called "Post-growth agrifood systems: Now!" and presented research results from the project. At the SCORAI Conference I presented a paper on "Post-growth Sustainable Agrifood Systems: A SSCP Research Agenda" which builds upon the results from this work.
We are wrapping up the writing of chapters, hiring illustrators, and finalizing our editing tasks to publish the "Post-growth food for Japan: revaluing informal and wild food practices as provisioning systems" book.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Progress on the book "Post-growth food for Japan: revaluing informal and wild food practices as provisioning systems" with Australia National Press is nearly complete. The book will introduce conceptual framework for IFPs as part of post-growth food systems and illustrates elements of the framework through a collection of case-studies of IFPs in Japan. We aim to publish this book as soon as possible.
Research results will also be presented at the Regional Studies Conference this year.
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