| Project/Area Number |
22K18084
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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 80010:Area studies-related
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| Research Institution | Doshisha University |
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Principal Investigator |
E・T OTTMAN 同志社大学, 研究開発推進機構, 共同研究員 (20411168)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2027-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2026: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2025: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Keywords | creative resilience / sumud / Palestine / collective trauma / cultural trauma / resistence sumud / Resilience / collective memory |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This study takes place at an unprecedented juncture, when the international community is outraged at the atrocities being currently committed in Ukraine; the perpetration of inhumane mass-killing and destruction was considered to be an impossible reoccurrence after World War II. Yet Palestinians' own everyday cultural genocide continues relentlessly in the background. Our study aims to refocus attention on their ongoing oppression, while also attempting to highlight through a novel exploration the ways in which Palestinians have creatvely resisted attempts to write them out of history.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This year my team in Palestine (Dr. Anton Sabella and our research assistant Dana Hasan) has focused on fieldwork and gathering data from interviewing participants across the following sectors: Palestinian visual artists (8 in-depth interviews and field visits, more pending); Palestinian performing artsts (dancers and choreographers) (5 interviews and field visits); 3 Palestinian winemakers (more pending, subject to the security situation). The interviews have been transcribed, translated and analyzed and we are in the process of planning and arranging further interviews across the same creative sectors.
In addition we are currently preparing a book chapter and paper on Palestinian art and resilience as the first stage in our work.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
Conditions in the West Bank have become increasingly dangerous and violent, with settler attacks on Palestinian communities, clashes between the Israeli occupation forces and Palestinian youth, and since October 7th, 2023, with the outbreak of violent hostiities in Gaza, even more so. This has delayed the collection of our data as there were many occasions on which our research assistant found her area closed off by the Israeli military. My research partner Dr. Sabella also found it increasingly difficult to commute between Jerusalem and the West Bank for data collection; many days checkpoints were closed, or there were heavy delays at the checkpoints such as Qalandiya. Many alternative checkpoints were closed, Interviews frequently missed or rescheduled appointments for the same reasons, and it was more difficult to approach new respondents because of the atmosphere of uncertainty. There were also days on which national strikes were called in Palestine, and plans had to be rescheduled.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Despite the extreme challenges of the environment currently and the uptick in the violence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we are resolute in our intention to continue our research plans as proposed. We believe that this is critical work to show another side of the conflict, and to illustrate how Palestinian creative resilience persists despite the adverse circumstances. To this end we will continue our interview program in the fields proposed above.
1. If we are able to access the north, we have more winemaker interviews planned.
2. We aim to extend our interview program to include participants in the fields of to photography, music, theatre, film and cuisine. Each these will represent papers and book chapters.
3. After the completion of the paper and chapter on art we will approach publishers.
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