| Project/Area Number |
23K28339
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| Project/Area Number (Other) |
23H03650 (2023)
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund (2024)
Single-year Grants (2023) |
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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 | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University |
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Principal Investigator |
吉田 香織 立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 教授 (00550386)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
BUI ThanhHuong 立命館アジア太平洋大学, サステイナビリティ観光学部, 教授 (80711556)
YOUN SeungHo 立命館アジア太平洋大学, サステイナビリティ観光学部, 准教授 (80804757)
Gerster Julia 東北大学, 災害科学国際研究所, 准教授 (90842716)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2023-04-01 – 2028-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2024)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥17,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2027: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2026: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2025: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
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| Keywords | war memory / educational tourism / dark tourism / memory studies / peace education / war heritage |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
The project unpacks the nexus of memory studies, peace education, and dark tourism, conceptualizing the link between memories of wars in Asia and social representations. It aims for Asian paradigm to understand experience of war tourism, complementing the Western-oriented concept of dark tourism.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Our research achievements in AY2023 are summarized with the following focuses: 1) constant literature review on dark tourism for alternative methodological concepts, 2) intensive and extensive fieldwork in heritage sites, 3) interviews with crucial stakeholders (guides, kataribe, schoolteachers), 4) survey to students and participation to their reflection meetings, 5) conceptual integration of disaster and war memory construction, 6) compiling dataset from museum guest book comments, 7) presenting research outcomes at conferences.
More specifically, the project has developed successfully in empirical and conceptual terms, as we deepened the site investigation. Our focused and elaborate data gathering surely help us (re)organize the implementation of data analysis, as well as complicating the interpretation (e.g. different perspectives and requirements in different sites in Hiroshima, similarities and differences between Hiroshima war heritage sites and disaster heritage in Tohoku). We have also worked on compiling dataset from visitors guest book comments in various war heritage sites in Vietnam, worked with research assistants to compile dataset from interviews and document in Lubang Island in Philippines. Furthermore, we started applying software to develop a database and analyze the collected data.
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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
We assess the progress of our project to be rather smooth in empirical and conceptual/theoretical terms, because most of the activities planned for the year have been carried out. More specifically, we were quite successful in developing the number and the range of in-depth interviews to significant players in the construction of (alternative) memories of wars - tour guides, schoolteachers, student/young visitors - as well as diversifying war museums and memorials to investigate in Japan, Vietnam, Philippines, and South Korea.
In addition, the project team managed to conduct regular research meetings and discussions primarily online, via email, and in person at various locations, to discuss on needs of modification or redesigning the research implementation, based on the research outcomes.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Referring to what we had planned for AY2023, there are a few activities unfinished, which are prioritized in order to align with the dataset taken in Japan for comparison and integration. Accordingly, main activities planned for AY2023 include: 1) survey to students visiting heritage sites for educational tour in Vietnam and South Korea, 2) interviews with schoolteachers initiating educational tour in Vietnam and South Korea, 3) interviews with tour guides at heritage sites in South Korea, 4) continuing collection of media materials and presenting preliminary analysis outcomes in conferences and articles, and 5) continuing qualitative analyses of data collected in AY2023 and secondary outcome presentation (e.g. interviews to guides and teachers, students’ comments, guestbook comments).
Moreover, follow-up interviews with tour guides, various storytellers (kataribe) in Hiroshima and Okunoshima, and students in educational tours, as well as expanding interviews in more school trips, are planned for detailed analysis of empirical data. Additionally, we will develop gender and age-based aspects of alternative social representation of memories: female and children’s experiences.
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