Life Histories of the Transformed: Identities on the Gender and Sexual Border
Project/Area Number |
21K12509
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Review Section |
Basic Section 80030:Gender studies-related
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Research Institution | Sophia University |
Principal Investigator |
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
野澤 俊介 北海道大学, 高等教育推進機構, 准教授 (50771325)
宮崎 あゆみ 日本女子大学, 人間社会学部, 研究員 (90750216)
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Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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Keywords | gender / josou / social media / interview / discourse / sexuality / youth / language / LGBT / linguistic anthropology / life history |
Outline of Research at the Start |
This project explores the experiences of youth on the gender and sexual border, people who find traditional male-female gender concepts problematic using life histories as the research method. We focus on how people choose their gender and sexuality terms and create new practices to match them.
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Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
We have managed to get our data transcribed and our team members have done work to collaborate with other researchers also doing similar research. We have also continued to follow the work of one of our main sources on social media. This deep level of insight has allowed us to see how a personal level of transformation and understanding through gender can affect multiple areas of one's life. It is quite common to think of gender as being something that is personal or within the psyche, however after interviewing our source and looking at the transcribed data we can see that this level of personal understanding has strong impacts in how we work with other people in our day-to-day lives. It also gives us a rare chance to look at someone who has been given the opportunity to take their personal gender explorations and combine it with their long term growth in terms of work and career. We believe this to be a fairly rare phenomenon in Japan and feel much gratitude towards our informant for sharing with us this personal level of growth.
Additionally, many of us have found different opportunities to present at conferences and other forums that match our overall goals of exploring the life histories of individuals who find themselves living at the borders of traditional binary gender positions. These collaborations have led to opportunities to share our research with new audiences and also have resulted in publication opportunities which we have accepted.
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Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
We obviously experienced a certain amount of delay due to the continued difficulties presented by the coronavirus and its associated global pandemic. Many of the conferences that we would typically attend have only recently gone back into action. Additionally, we have also found it difficult to find interviewees to work with in Japan. Many people still do not feel comfortable being interviewed face to face and at the same time many people still do not have adequate technology or Internet access that allows for smooth and easy recording and transcription of their interviews to the level that we would like.
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Strategy for Future Research Activity |
We intend to continue our research during this year by trying to still collect more data and at the same time putting together a large panel to present at the American Anthropological Association, one of the largest academic organizations/conferences. We are also talking with other researchers with the possibility of expanding and continuing this line of research in other countries where people do not have the same anxieties regarding the pandemic. We also hope to put together some small scale public events to highlight the collaborations we have undertaken during this project sometime this year.
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Report
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Research Products
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