| Project/Area Number |
22K12614
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 80020:Tourism studies-related
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| Research Institution | Wakayama University |
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Principal Investigator |
Doering Adam 和歌山大学, 観光学部, 教授 (70784560)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
奥本 英樹 福島大学, 経済経営学類, 教授 (50277753)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2024)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
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)
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| Keywords | Surf tourism / Tourism ethics / Fukushima / Aceh / Post-disaster recovery / Environmental ethics / Restorative justice / Coastal tourism / Surf Tourism / Tourism Ethics / Coastal Tourism / Restorative Justice / Environmental Ethics / Disaster Recovery / Marine Tourism / Lifestyle Sports / Dark Tourism / Polluted Leisure / Disaster recovery / Lifestyle sports / Banda Aceh / Marine tourism / Tsunami recovery / Environmental humanities / Sustainable tourism |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
The purpose of this study is to explore how different post-tsunami coastal communities reimagine, rebuild, and recover relationships with waves and seas through surf tourism. Detailing the intersections of life, leisure and tourism along the post-tsunami coastlines of Fukushima (Japan) and Ache (Indonesia), the study examines how surf tourism may be used to rebuild human-environment relations in post-disaster settings, and to share disaster experiences of the tsunami affected areas as part of knowledge exchange and healing.
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The study investigated how communities affected by tsunamis rebuild relationships with the sea through surfing and surf tourism. Focusing on Fukushima and Aceh, the project explored surf tourism as a platform for environmental recovery, disaster knowledge exchange, restorative justice, and community resilience. The project produced three interrelated research outcomes: (1) A survey of 142 participants in Fukushima showed surf tourism's role in building a regional identity and public attitudes toward ALPS-treated water, analysis underway; (2) Ethnographic fieldwork in Fukushima and Aceh revealed how surf tourism fosters an ethic of care and redefines recovery through local, relational practices, culminating in the concept of “just being” as a form of ontological justice; and (3) Action research involved over 200 participants in cross-regional workshops, strengthening community ties, empowering narrative agency, and translocal recovery networks between Fukushima and Aceh.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
Surf tourism in tsunami affected coastlines is complex. This research contributes to understanding the complexities and possibilities surfing and surf tourism offers for rebuilding ‘new’ meanings, relations, experiences, and translocal networks to support post-tsunami recovery efforts.
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